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The Irish Literary Tradition
(ISBN 0-7083-1094-X)
Available in North America from Ford & Bailie
'
The Irish Literary Tradition
is a magisterial achievement, a book which no one seriously interested in the literature of our "British" archipelago should be without'
(New Welsh Review)
'. . . this book is a comprehensive general history aimed principally at the non-specialist. Professor Ford and Williams have done their subject more than justice and for the foreseeable future, wherever Irish Literature is taught their names will be gratefully mentioned.'
(Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies)
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Price: £17.99
Medieval Welsh Manuscripts
(ISBN 0-7083-1602-6)
This book, the first ever to be devoted to the manuscripts that preserved the treasures of medieval Welsh literature, offers a fascinating introduction to the manuscript tradition in Wales. Welsh is one of the earliest literatures of Europe and, until about 1800, most of its classics, including the Mabinogion, the poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym and the Welsh chronicles, were transmitted by manuscript.
This is a book that is likely to remain indispensable well into the twenty-first century not just in relation to medieval Wales, but also in bringing Welsh manuscripts into the general field of discussion of the medieval book.
A former Keeper of Manuscripts at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Daniel Huws is the leading authority on Welsh medieval manuscripts.
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Price: £60.00
The Literature of Wales
(ISBN 0708312659)
'Dafydd Johnston's book is a small masterpiece of compression and balance . . . For anyone approaching this subject for the first time, or for someone wanting to get an overall view of it, this book is going to be invaluable.' (Planet)
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Price: £6.99
Poets of Modern Ireland: Text, Context, Intertext
(ISBN 0-7083-1513-5)
Neil Corcoran is one of Britain’s most accomplished commentators on contemporary poetry. In this illuminating contribution to the study of both Irish literature and modern poetry, Corcoran brings a keen critical intelligence and an informed contextual awareness to the work of W. B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Austin Clarke, Padraic Fallon, Louis MacNeice, Paul Muldoon and Ciaran Carson.
He puts forward a powerful case for certain contextual and intertextual modes of reading the work of these poets. The contexts and intertexts established include: the contentious debate between `nationalist’ and `revisionist’ criticism; the relationship between Irish and American poetry; the writing of `place’ and its political significance; the prominent engagement with issues of sexuality and the erotic; the persistence of the religious impulse or theological content; and the Irish language and the preoccupation with forms of translation.
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Price: £17.99
Medieval Welsh Literature to c.1400, including Arthurian Studies
(ISBN No Code)
A personal guide to University of Wales Press publications
by Rachel Bromwich
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Dr Rachel Bromwich was invited to prepare this booklet for the University of Wales Press and the Board of Celtic Studies of the University of Wales, with two audiences in mind. Those already closely involved in medieval Welsh studies will surely appreciate a guide to the field written by one who is known to them as the editor of Trioedd Ynys Prydain, and the author of key studies in early Welsh literature, the Arthurian legend, and Dafydd ap Gwilym. But we have also become aware of a wider audience for our books among medievalists whose main interests are not Welsh or even Celtic, but who come to Welsh literature from a wider comparative perspective. Dr Bromwich is an ideal presenter of the material to this audience too. Her life has been spent between Cambridge (England) and Wales, between the Welsh and English languages, translating texts and interpreting the literature.
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Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain
(ISBN 0708313868)
Rachel Bromwich's magisterial work has long won its place as a classic in Celtic Studies. This new edition exemplifies her continued mastery of the subject, and will be essential reading for students of early British history and literature, Celticists and students of Arthurian studies.
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Price: £65.00
The Welsh Life of St David
(ISBN 070830995X)
A presentation for the non-Welsh speaker of the medieval text of the Welsh Life of St. David, one of the early Christian missionaries of West Wales.
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Price: £25.00
Welsh Literature and the Classical Tradition
(ISBN 0708314996)
This book is an accessible introduction to the links between Welsh literature and the Greek and Latin Classics, from the interaction between the literatures of the classical and Welsh worlds as the Welsh Language emerged, through the Middle Ages and Renaissance humanism, to the classical inheritance found in the work of Euros Bowen and others in the twentieth century. The author does not assume an in-depth knowledge of the texts discussed and the quotations appear both in the original language and in translation.
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Price: £17.99
The Welsh Fairy Book
(ISBN 0-7083-1257-8)
W. Jenkyn Thomas. Illustrated by William Pogány
Introduction by Juliette Wood
Welsh Fairy Tales is classic collection of Welsh traditional narratives, most of which a folklorist would describe as legends. It has been reprinted many times and has had an significant influence on peoples' conception of the nature and content of Welsh folk tradition both in and outside Wales. The refined prose and imaginative illustrations are characteristic of a romantic view of fairytales, both as to the people who told them and as to the kind of supernatural realm they represented. This kind of collection was, and is, popular for children and general readers.
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Price: £9.99
The Welsh Spirit of Gwent
(ISBN 0-7083-1020-6)
Gwent is sometimes presented as the most Anglicized county of Wales. This book corrects the perspective by tracing the Welsh cultural tradition of the county.
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Price: £6.99
