1000 Years of Irish Poetry: The Gaelic and Anglo-Irish Poets fro Pagan Times to the Present; Edited with an introduction by Kathleen Hoagland
by Hoagland, Kathleen, editor
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +/very good -
- ISBN 10
- 0517342952
- ISBN 13
- 9780517342954
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About This Item
Old Greenwich, Conn: Devin-Adair Co, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good -. Fourth printing. liv, 830 p.; 23 cm. Dark green cover with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. 1000 Years of Irish Poetry "presents for the first time 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, nature and contemplative poetry, odes and sonnets, and older forms from the Gaelic not so common to English verse, which influenced the bardic poets of ancient and medieval Europe from the authors of the Icelandic sagas to Dants." -- dust jacket. Book is in Very Good+ Condition: top page edges slightly soiled; pages edges browning; back endpapers lightly soiled; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good- Condition: edges rubbed; edges of back flap lightly soiled; illustration is bright.
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- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
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- 008987
- Title
- 1000 Years of Irish Poetry: The Gaelic and Anglo-Irish Poets fro Pagan Times to the Present; Edited with an introduction by Kathleen Hoagland
- Author
- Hoagland, Kathleen, editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0517342952
- ISBN 13
- 9780517342954
- Publisher
- Devin-Adair Co
- Place of Publication
- Old Greenwich, Conn
- Date Published
- 1975
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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