Broschiertes Buch

A Celtic Miscellany

Selected and Translated by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson

Selected and Translated by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson

Beschreibung

Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx, this book offers a blend of poetry and prose from the eighth to the nineteenth century, and provides an insight into the minds and literature of the Celtic people.

Autor

Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson was born in 1909. He began his career as a lecturer in Celtic at Cambridge, before becoming the first chair of the Department of Celtic Language and Literature at Harvard. He undertook war service with the Uncommon Languages section of British censorship and subsequently held professorships at Harvard and Edinburgh. Professor Jackson died in 1991.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 262g
• ISBN-13: 9780141398853
• ISBN-10: 014139885X
• Artikelnr.: 41430234