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Book Title
Tales of Wonder, Volume I
Publication Name
Tales of Wonder, Volume I
Title
Tales of Wonder, Volume I
Author
Matthew Lewis
Contributor
Brett Rutherford (Introduction by)
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
0922558612
EAN
9780922558612
ISBN
9780922558612
Publisher
Poet's Press, T.H.E.
Genre
Poetry
Release Year
2012
Release Date
20/02/2012
Language
English
Item Height
0.6in
Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
13.2 Oz
Publication Year
2012
Topic
European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Number of Pages
248 Pages

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Never reprinted in its original form since its 1805 second edition, and never before presented in a complete annotated, scholarly edition, Tales of Wonder is a landmark in Gothic literature and Romantic poetry. Here we are treated to a ghost/vampire tale first penned around 300 BCE; a Runic funeral song from the tenth century CE; a meeting between the Saxon invader of England and a Roman ghost; a Nordic warrior woman's incantation to raise her father from the dead; Goethe's blood-curdling multi-voiced "Erl-King" and fatal water nymphs; the monk and nun who try (unsuccessfully) to save their witch mother from the Devil; a proud painter's encounters with Satan; a doomed romance set in the horrific landscape of the War of the Spanish Succession; and the cursed forest ride of "The Wild Huntsmen." This edition, annotated by Brett Rutherford, traces the literary origins of the poems and the stories behind them, connecting them to the long line of eccentric antiquarian scholars who collected classical, Runic, English and Scottish manuscripts or folk material. The poems here also reveal the late-18th century British project of constructing a pagan pre-history for England, building a poetic connection to Nordic legends and bringing Wotan/Odin and the gods, monsters and fairies of the forest into competition with Biblical and Greco-Roman lore. This volume includes early poems by Sir Walter Scott and Robert Southey, as well as poems by M.G. Lewis, Goethe, Herder, B rger, Mickle, Bunbury, and Leyden. The originals of these poems and ballads are from Greek, Latin, Icelandic, Danish and German, as well as English and Scottish supernatural ballads. For the poetry lover, and the fan of supernatural literature, this collection offers a year-round Halloween treat of entertaining and alarming poems to read aloud ... bedtime stories for very bad children.

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Poet's Press, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0922558612
ISBN-13
9780922558612
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Book Title
Tales of Wonder, Volume I
Author
Matthew Lewis
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
248 Pages

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Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
13.2 Oz

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