Welsh Poems Sixth Century to 1600 1st edition by Gwyn Williams ISBN 0520319486 978-0520319486

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ISBN 10: 0520319486
ISBN 13: 978-0520319486
Author: Gwyn Williams

Welsh Poems: Sixth Century to 1600 by Gwyn Williams gathers a millennium of verse from the oldest heroic laments to the late Renaissance, rendered into agile, musical English by one of the language’s most gifted translators. In a lucid introduction, Williams frames Welsh poetry’s signature “burning tree” mood–its dazzling yoke of contraries: battle and desire, spring and winter, sanctity and transgression–and traces how this sensibility shapes form as well as feeling. Rather than the single vanishing point of classical design, early Welsh composition moves like interlaced knotwork and stone circles: themes recur, echo, and braid, giving listeners (these poems were first heard, not read) a collateral, time-defying experience. Alongside heroes who “pay for their mead” with their lives, readers meet the courtly innovators of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries–Dafydd ap Gwilym, Hywel ab Owain, and others–who entwine love, landscape, and liturgy; later poets test new stanzas and worldly subjects without abandoning the discipline of cynghanedd, the language’s intricately patterned consonance and rhyme.

 

Williams’s translations balance fidelity to sound with clarity of sense, introducing the major forms (englyn, cywydd, awdl) and the cultural world that produced them: raiding halls and churchyards, woodland sanctuaries and bustling ports, prophetic politics and macabre love elegies. His notes orient newcomers to metrics and historical reference, while the introduction situates Welsh poetics within (and against) Greco-Roman conventions and English analogues from The Seafarer to Donne and Dylan Thomas. The result is both anthology and argument: that Welsh literature’s “dispersed design” offers a durable alternative modernity, alive to paradox and resistant to flattening. Essential for readers of medieval and early modern poetry, Celtic studies, translation, and sound-based poetics, Welsh Poems: Sixth Century to 1600 is a brilliantly curated gateway to one of Europe’s oldest and most inventive lyric traditions.

 

This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.

Welsh Poems Sixth Century to 1600 1st Table of contents:

1. The Gododdin (Selected stanzas)

2. The Battle of Argoed Llwyfain

3. Eagle of Pengwem

4. The Body of Urien Rheged

5. The Sick Man of Aber Cuawg

6. Stanzas of the Graves

7. Gereint Son of Erbin

8. Deathbed Poem

9. Epigram

10. Exultation

11. Exultation

12. Ode I

13. Ode II

14. Ode III

15. Ode IV

16. Ode V

17. Ode VI

18. Ode VII

19. The Death of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd

20. Thief of Love

21. The Woodland Mass

22. The Girls of Llanhadam

23. The Rattle Bag

24. The Death of Lleucu Llwyd

25. The Labourer

26. Sir Hywel of the Axe

27. The Illusion of this World

28. To a Girl

29. A Girl’s Hair

30. Naming the Girl

31 The Death of Sion Eos

32. From Lent to Summer

33. On the Death of his Son

34. To Ask for a Stallion

35. To a Sweet-mouthed Girl

36. Longing

37. Three Hinds of Denbighshire

38. Stanzas to the Harp

39. Marchan Wood

40. Glyn Cynon Wood

41. The Trial of Cresyd

42. In Defence of Woman

43. A Poem to show the Trouble that befell him when he was at Sea.

44. To a Pretty Girl

45. The Porpoise

46. A Welsh Ballad.

47. The Lover s Shirt

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