Selections From Ancient Irish Poetry

Voices from early medieval Ireland, alive and vigorous. Ancient voices still speak aloud. Kuno Meyer's Selections From Ancient Irish Poetry is both an ancient Irish poetry collection and a thoughtful Celtic literature anthology, making early Irish verse and medieval Irish poems approachable without dulling their lyric edge. The translations of Irish poetry here render terse heroic lays, devotional fragments and occasional panegyrics into straightforward, sonorous English while keeping trace...