1000 Years of Irish Poetry: The Gaelic and Anglo-Irish Poets from Pagan Times to the PresentKathleen Hoagland Presents a panorama of Irish poetry as a literature, showing the many facets of the Irish poetic genius: lyrics, elegies, songs, street ballads, satires, patriotic hymns, dramatic epics, natural and contemplative poetry, odes and sonnets, and older unusual Gaelic forms of verse, which influenced the bardic poets of ancient and medieval Europe. |