The History of Verse Translation from the Irish 1789-1897

Contents: Translation and Irish Poetry in English; The Historical and Literary Background to the Translation of Irish Poetry; Joseph Cooper Walker and Charlotte Brooke; The Beginnings of an Irish Tradition in English; Some Cork Translators; James Hardiman and his Translators; Two Northern Translators: Matthew Moore Graham and Samuel Ferguson; James Clarence Mangan; Edward Walsh; The 1850s: W.H. Drummond, S.H. O'Grady, Sigerson; Douglas Hyde; George Sigerson's^R Bards of the Gael and Gall; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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By Robert Welch

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• Authors: Robert Welch
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780389207894
• ISBN: 978-0-389-20789-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 224 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 381 g
• Series: Textual Sources for the Study; Irish Literacy Studies Series; Textual Sources for the Study; Irish Literacy Studies Series; Irish Literacy Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies