Book description
Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton
and Manx, this Celtic Miscellany offers a rich blend of poetry and prose
from the eighth to the nineteenth century, and provides a unique insight
into the minds and literature of the Celtic people. It is a literature
dominated by a deep sense of wonder, wild inventiveness and a profound
sense of the uncanny, in which the natural world and the power of the
individual spirit are celebrated with astonishing imaginative force.
Skifully arranged by theme, from the hero-tales of C Chulainn, Bardic
poetry and elegies, to the sensitive and intimate writings of early
Celtic Christianity, this anthology provides a fascinating insight into
a deeply creative literary tradition.
