The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse (Oxford Books of Verse)

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The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse (Oxford Books of Verse)

Description

In this delightful anthology, Thomas Kinsella, a renowned poet and translator, offers new translations of a significant selection of poems from the early centuries to the present day, thus revealing some of the greatest riches of Irish verse. No one has displayed the Irish tradition--which includes the earliest vernacular poetry in Western Europe--to better advantage than Kinsella has in this magnificent collection. Divided into three "Books," Book I opens with the earliest, pre-Christian poetry in Old Irish and ends in the fourteenth century with the first Irish poetry in the Eng...

ISBN(s)

0192826433, 9780192826435

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