Ireland's Love Poems: Wonder and a Wild Desire
By Unknown Author.
Description
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 poet...
ISBN(s)
9781856263580
