Poets and Dreamers - Studies and Translations From the Irish

Klappentext Lady Gregory's Poets and Dreamers (1903) contains English translations of the Irish poet Anthony Raftery and plays by Douglas Hyde. Zusammenfassung The dramatist and folklorist Lady (Augusta) Gregory (1852–1932) was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival. This was her first publication and contained English translations of the Irish poet Anthony Raftery, folk-tales, and plays by the Gaelic scholar and future first President of Ireland Douglas Hyde. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Raftery; 2. West Irish ballads; 3. Jacobite ballads; 4. An Craoibhin's poems; 5. Boer ballads in Ireland; 6. A sorrowful lament for Ireland; 7. Mountain theology; 8. Herb-healing; 9. The wandering tribe; 10. Workhouse dreams; 11. On the edge of the world; 12. An Craoibhin's plays - The Twisting of the Rope, The Marriage, The Lost Saint, The Nativity.

Product details

• Authors: Augusta Gregory
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.11.2010
• EAN: 9781108022040
• ISBN: 978-1-108-02204-0
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies