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Tales of Wonder, Volume I (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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Tales of Wonder, Volume I (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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Loot Price R453
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Never reprinted in its original form since its 1805 second edition,
and never before presented in a complete annotated, scholarly
edition, Tales of Wonder is a landmark in Gothic literature and
Romantic poetry. Here we are treated to a ghost/vampire tale first
penned around 300 BCE; a Runic funeral song from the tenth century
CE; a meeting between the Saxon invader of England and a Roman
ghost; a Nordic warrior woman's incantation to raise her father
from the dead; Goethe's blood-curdling multi-voiced "Erl-King" and
fatal water nymphs; the monk and nun who try (unsuccessfully) to
save their witch mother from the Devil; a proud painter's
encounters with Satan; a doomed romance set in the horrific
landscape of the War of the Spanish Succession; and the cursed
forest ride of "The Wild Huntsmen." This edition, annotated by
Brett Rutherford, traces the literary origins of the poems and the
stories behind them, connecting them to the long line of eccentric
antiquarian scholars who collected classical, Runic, English and
Scottish manuscripts or folk material. The poems here also reveal
the late-18th century British project of constructing a pagan
pre-history for England, building a poetic connection to Nordic
legends and bringing Wotan/Odin and the gods, monsters and fairies
of the forest into competition with Biblical and Greco-Roman lore.
This volume includes early poems by Sir Walter Scott and Robert
Southey, as well as poems by M.G. Lewis, Goethe, Herder, Burger,
Mickle, Bunbury, and Leyden. The originals of these poems and
ballads are from Greek, Latin, Icelandic, Danish and German, as
well as English and Scottish supernatural ballads. For the poetry
lover, and the fan of supernatural literature, this collection
offers a year-round Halloween treat of entertaining and alarming
poems to read aloud ... bedtime stories for very bad children.
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