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The Finest Music : Early Irish Lyrics, Hardback Book

The Finest Music : Early Irish Lyrics Hardback

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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 Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, 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.

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  • Pages:176 pages
  • Publisher:Faber & Faber
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  • ISBN:9780571298013

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  • Item not Available

  • Format:Hardback
  • Pages:176 pages
  • Publisher:Faber & Faber
  • Publication Date:
  • ISBN:9780571298013