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Title: The Song of Taliesin: Tales from King Arthur's Bard by John Matthews, Stuart Littlejohn ISBN: 0-8356-0802-6 Publisher: Quest Books Pub. Date: October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excelsior!
Comment: John Matthews is a poet and a scholar. In this translation, Mr. Matthews successfully invokes the spirit of the bard, taking these ancient Welsh tales and turning them into a readable, intelligable and excellent writing. The Song of Taliesin is so skillfully done, I recommend it to beginners, middlers and experts alike. Seek this book out if you have any interest in Celtic myth or culture.
Rating: 4
Summary: INTERESTING BUT DEJAVU?
Comment: I enjoyed this book; the way John Matthews weaves the stories is wonderful. A refreshing change from his usual scholarly writing method. However, I couldn't help but feel that the idea of the monk writing the stories was perhaps taken from "The Way of Wyrd", by Brian Bates..
Perhaps it was an idea that both writers had independantly.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wearing its learning lightly
Comment: This is a book I have bee waiting for for a long time. Both John and Caitlin Mathhews' more (overtly) scholarly books have hinted at the possibility of more primitive, more whole versions of the Celtic stories that we have - and here John fascinatingly reconstructs them. My favorite is 'The Battle of the Trees', which takes hints from the medieval poem 'Cad Goddeu' and fleshes them out into a prose narrative, creating in effect a 'Fifth Branch of the Mabinogi'. The character of Gwydion is as wily as ever. The excitement of reading these stories, as a Celticist in training, was not only in their elegant and evocative narratives, but in seeing where fragments had been stiched together seamlessly. I'm not sure that the Irish stories worked as well as the British/Welsh ones, but the marriage of scholarship and vision is astonishing, from the story born from the poem 'Preiddeu Annwn' 'The Journey to Deganwy' to the wonderful version of the story of Branwen.
Highly recommended to those who are familiar with Celtic literature and those who are just discovering it.
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Title: Taliesin: The Last Celtic Shaman by John Matthews, Caitlin Matthews ISBN: 0892818697 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Song of Arthur: Celtic Tales from the High King's Court by John Matthews, Stuart Littlejohn ISBN: 0835608093 Publisher: Quest Books Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: King Arthur and the Goddess of the Land: The Divine Feminine in the Mabinogion by Caitlin Matthews, Caitlín Matthews ISBN: 0892819219 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: 30 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Mabon and the Guardians of Celtic Britain: Hero Myths in the Mabinogion by Caitlin Matthews, Caitlín Matthews ISBN: 0892819200 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: 30 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Ladies of the Lake by Caitlin Matthews, John Matthews, Marion Zimmer Bradley ISBN: 1855380455 Publisher: Thorsons Pub Pub. Date: July, 1992 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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