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Love's bitter-sweet : translations from the Irish poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / by Robin Flower.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Flower, Robin, 1881-1946, translator.
- Language:
- English
- Irish
- Subjects (All):
- Love poetry.
- Irish poetry--Translations into English.
- Irish poetry.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Publishing) -- Cuala Press.
- Translations.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Maxwell, William (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [8], 34, [4] pages ; 22 cm
- 8vo.
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin, Ire. : Cuala Press, MCMXXV [1925].
- Contents:
- The dispraise of Absalom
- The blackthorn brooch
- Death and the lady
- Haunted
- Women
- Speech in slience
- Light love
- Manus O'Donnell and earl's daughter
- The free lover
- The wise lover
- At parting
- The proud lady
- Love's bitter-sweet
- Odi et amo
- Beware
- He praises his wife when she had gone from him
- Two ways of jealousy
- Diarmuid Ruadh praises beauty. I, The lovely lady ; II, The songs of thievery
- The curse
- Sheila
- The honey thief
- The cotter's life
- The widow
- Four epigrams
- Colophon.
- Notes:
- "Five hundred copies of this book have been printed on paper made in Ireland, and published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats at the Cuala Press."--Colophon.
- Bound in blue paper boards, with natural linen spine.
- The originals of most of the poems are from Thomas Francis O'Rahilly's collection Danta Grádha.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has uncut leaves. Book sellers sticker on inside back cover: Philip C. Duschnes. New York.
- OCLC:
- 2757051
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