Author: JEFFARES, Norman A. (edited and with an introduction by)
Title: Ireland's love poems. Wonder and a Wild Desire.
Description: Kyle Cathie, Kyle Cathie. 2000, xxvii,260pp. Paperback. In very good condition. "The vast complexity of Ireland's history and culture - from the pre-Christian pagan period and the powerful bardic schools, through the tragic nineteenth century potato famine and the emergence of today's Irish nation - has always been intricately linked to and determined the nature of its poetry. Ireland has an extraordinary wealth of love poetry, both in the Irish and English languages. Emotions and experiences of every kind are expressed in this celebration of love's pleasures and pains, ranging from the complex bardic forms through to forthright contemporary feminist poetry. In his selection A. Norman Jeffares illustrates this variety, choosing love poems from every period of Irish history. Some of the poets will be well known to readers Swift, Wilde and Kennelly as well as the Nobel Prize winners, Yeats, Beckett and Heaney. Others will be lesser known but their contribution provides an opportunity to hear the authentic and intensely passionate voice of Irish love poems across the ages.".

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