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The Book of Taliesin - Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain (Paperback)
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The Book of Taliesin - Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain (Paperback)
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The great work of Welsh literature, translated in full for the
first time in over 100 years by two of its country's foremost poets
Tennyson portrayed him, and wrote at least one poem under his name.
Robert Graves was fascinated by what he saw as his work's
connection to a lost world of deeply buried folkloric memory. He is
a shapeshifter; a seer; a chronicler of battles fought, by sword
and with magic, between the ancient kingdoms of the British Isles;
a bridge between old Welsh mythologies and the new Christian
theology; a 6th-century Brythonic bard; and a legendary collective
project spanning the centuries up to The Book of Taliesin's
compilation in 14th-century North Wales. He is, above all, no
single 'he'. The figure of Taliesin is a mystery. But of the
variety and quality of the poems written under his sign, of their
power as exemplars of the force of ecstatic poetic imagination, and
of the fascinating window they offer us onto a strange and
visionary world, there can be no question. In the first volume to
gather all of the poems from The Book of Taliesin since 1915,
Gwyneth Lewis and Rowan Williams's accessible translation makes
these outrageous, arrogant, stumbling and joyful poems available to
a new generation of readers.
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