Author: Rolfe Humphries
Title: Green Armor on Green Ground Poems in the Twenty-Four Official Welsh Meters and Some, in Free Meters, on Welsh Themes
Description: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1956. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Hardcover Near Very Good Dust Jacket Price clipped NOT a library copy No writing in text No signatures. Dust jacket has minor wear at extremities but quite nice.First Edition. Brilliant brilliant book here is a lesson in Bardic verse.Englyns and Awdls If Taliesin is in every age, as he must, as poetry's champion, here Mr Humphries a fine poet himself gives all 24 bardic meters in English in original poetic works on traditional Celtic Welsh themes .There are even fresh Arthurian works, one retelling of the 'Dream of Rhonabwy'! Another of Trystan and the ode to the Fairies "The Tylwyth Teg" With scholarly introduction and endnotes. Three Geese in Flight Celtic Books since 1977. See our Scans. Very Good/Very Good.
Keywords: Dream of Rhonabwy bardic verse welsh poetry arthur trystan tylwyth teg fairies celtic studies celtic poetry welsh englyn Welsh Celtic Studies Medieval and Early Medieval Medieval, Early Medieval and Tudor
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Title: Green Armor on Green Ground Poems in the Twenty-Four Official Welsh Meters and Some, in Free Meters, on Welsh Themes
Description: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1956. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Hardcover Near Very Good Dust Jacket Price clipped NOT a library copy No writing in text No signatures. Dust jacket has minor wear at extremities but quite nice.First Edition. Brilliant brilliant book here is a lesson in Bardic verse.Englyns and Awdls If Taliesin is in every age, as he must, as poetry's champion, here Mr Humphries a fine poet himself gives all 24 bardic meters in English in original poetic works on traditional Celtic Welsh themes .There are even fresh Arthurian works, one retelling of the 'Dream of Rhonabwy'! Another of Trystan and the ode to the Fairies "The Tylwyth Teg" With scholarly introduction and endnotes. Three Geese in Flight Celtic Books since 1977. See our Scans. Very Good/Very Good.
Keywords: Dream of Rhonabwy bardic verse welsh poetry arthur trystan tylwyth teg fairies celtic studies celtic poetry welsh englyn Welsh Celtic Studies Medieval and Early Medieval Medieval, Early Medieval and Tudor
Price: US$ 35.00 Seller: Three Geese In Flight Celtic Books
- Book number: 9000117
- Book number: 9000117
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