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Title The finest music : early Irish lyrics / Maurice Riordan.

Publication Info. London : Faber & Faber, 2017.

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 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  891.62 R47F    Check Shelf
Edition paperback edition
Description 1 volume ; 20 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "In a series of timeless and modern-day renditions, Maurice Riordan brilliantly introduces us to the poems that founded Ireland's rich literature. Memorable and accessible, these early lyrics are presented in their classic incarnations by literary giants from both sides of the Irish Sea: in examples by W. H. Auden, Flann O'Brien, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Montague, Robert Graves and Frank O'Connor. But the anthology is much more than a survey of canonical texts; through a series of specially commissioned poems, fresh eyes are brought to bear on these ancient poems: by Seamus Heaney and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, by Paul Muldoon and Kathleen Jamie, by Ciaran Carson and Christopher Reid, and many others. The experience is enhanced still further by the enabling hand of Riordan himself, in a sweep of exquisite translations of his own made especially for this publication. Unforgettable and inspirational, a book for giving and for keeping: The Finest Music by some of the art-form's finest players."-- Publisher's description.
Subject Irish poetry -- To 1100 -- Translations into English.
Irish poetry -- Middle Irish, 1100-1500 -- Translations into English.
English poetry -- Irish authors.
English poetry -- Irish authors. (OCoLC)fst00912309
Irish poetry. (OCoLC)fst00979051
Chronological Term To 1500
Genre/Form Translations. (OCoLC)fst01423791
Added Author Riordan, Maurice, 1953- editor.
ISBN 9780571298020 (pbk.)
0571298028 (pbk.)
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