Celtic Psaltery Being Mainly Renderings

Author : Alfred Perceval Graves
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ISBN 13 : 9781331195320
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book A Celtic Psaltery written by Alfred Perceval Graves and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Celtic Psaltery: Being Mainly Renderings in English Verse From Irish Welsh Poetry I have called this volume of verse a Celtic Psaltery because it mainly consists of close and free translations from Irish, Scotch Gaelic, and Welsh Poetry of a religious or serious character. The first half of the book is concerned with Irish poems. The first group of these starts with the dawning of Christianity out of Pagan darkness, and the spiritualising of the Early Irish by the wisdom to be found in the conversations between King Cormac MacArt - the Irish ancestor of our Royal Family - and his son and successor. King Carbery. Here also will be found those pregnant ninth-century utterances known as the "Irish Triads." Next follow poems attributed or relating to some of the Irish saints - Patrick, Columba, Brigit, Moling; Lays of Monk and Hermit, Religious Invocations, Reflections and Charms and Lamentations for the Dead, including a remarkable early Irish poem entitled "The Mothers' Lament at the Slaughter of the Innocents" and a powerful peasant poem, "The Keening of Mary." The Irish section is ended by a set of songs suggested by Irish folk-tunes. Of the early Irish Religious Poetry here translated it may be observed that the originals are not only remarkable for fine metrical form but for their cheerful spirituality, their open-air freshness and their occasional touches of kindly humour. "Irish religious poetry," it has been well said, ranges from single quatrains to lengthy compositions dealing with all the varied aspects of religious life. Many of them give us a fascinating insight into the peculiar character of the early Irish Church, which differed in so many ways from the Christian world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.