The Voice of the Bard

The Voice of the Bard
Author: Timothy Neat
Publisher: Birlinn
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Based on a series of interviews and portraits, Tim Neat paints a compelling portrait of the humanity and depth of these poets and their lives. The book forms the second part of a four book oral history of Scotland, which began with The Summer Walkers.

Hear the Voice of the Bard!Who Present, Past, & Future Sees

Hear the Voice of the Bard!Who Present, Past, & Future Sees
Author: David Annwn
Publisher: West House Books
Total Pages: 38
Release: 1995
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

In this essay, originally delivered as a lecture to The Blake Society in 1994, Welsh poet David Annwn considers the origin of Blake's vision of the Bard, tracing it back through Thomas Gray to the great Welsh bardic poems of Aneurin and Taliesin. He goes on to follow its recent history, from W.B. Yeats to the modernist poetics of Robert Duncan.

Songs of Innocence

Songs of Innocence
Author: William Blake
Publisher:
Total Pages: 35
Release: 1789
Genre: Illumination of books and manuscripts
ISBN:

Lucy Negro, Redux

Lucy Negro, Redux
Author: Caroline Randall Williams
Publisher: Third Man Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780997457827

Equally interested in the sensual and the serious, the erotic and the academic, this collection experiments with form, dialect, persona, and voice. Ultimately a hybrid document, Lucy Negro, Redux harnesses blues poetry, deconstructed sonnets, historical documents and lyric essays to tell the challenging, many-faceted story of the Dark Lady, her Shakespeare, and their real and imagined milieu.

The Black Bard of North Carolina

The Black Bard of North Carolina
Author: Joan R. Sherman
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2000-11-09
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0807864463

For his humanistic religious verse, his poignant and deeply personal antislavery poems, and, above all, his lifelong enthusiasm for liberty, nature, and the art of poetry, George Moses Horton merits a place of distinction among nineteenth-century African American poets. Enslaved from birth until the close of the Civil War, the self-taught Horton was the first American slave to protest his bondage in published verse and the first black man to publish a book in the South. As a man and as a poet, his achievements were extraordinary. In this volume, Joan Sherman collects sixty-two of Horton's poems. Her comprehensive introduction--combining biography, history, cultural commentary, and critical insight--presents a compelling and detailed picture of this remarkable man's life and art. George Moses Horton (ca. 1797-1883) was born in Northampton County, North Carolina. A slave for sixty-eight years, Horton spent much of his life on a farm near Chapel Hill, and in time he fostered a deep connection with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The author of three books of poetry, Horton was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in May of 1996.

Bard's Oath

Bard's Oath
Author: Joanne Bertin
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2012-11-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466801158

The long-awaited sequel to the epic fantasy Dragon and Phoenix, and the conclusion of the Dragonlord series In The Last Dragonlord and Dragon and Phoenix Joanne Bertin created a world unlike our own, where Dragonlords soar in the skies above the many realms of the land. The Dragonlords' magic is unique, giving them the ability to change from dragon to human form; to communicate silently among themselves; and other abilities not known to mortals. For many millennia, the Dragonlords have been a blessing to the world, with their great magic and awesome power. And though they live far longer than the humans who they resemble when not in their draconic state, these fabled changelings are still loyal to their human friends. Now in Bard's Oath, their magic is not the only power abroad in the world. And not all the magic is as benign as theirs. Leet, a master bard of great ability and vaulting ambition, has his own magic, but of a much darker nature. Years ago, death claimed the woman he loved, setting him on a course to avenge her death, no matter the consequences. Now, mad with hatred and consumed by his thirst for revenge, Leet has set in motion a nefarious plot that ensnares the friend of a Dragonlord, using his bardic skills . . . and dark powers only he can summon, to accomplish his bitter task. Raven, a young horse-breeder friend of the Dragonloard Linden Rathan, is ensnared by Leet and under the bard's spell, is one of the bard's unwitting catspaws. When accused of a heinous crime, Raven turns to Linden, and while Dragonlords normally do not meddle in human affairs, Linden comes to Raven's aid, loath to abandon him in his time of desperate need. But Raven, and others victimized by Leet, are at the mercy of human justice. Can even a Dragonlord save them from a dire fate before it is too late? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Bard of Souvac

The Bard of Souvac
Author: Tony Bishop
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2020-05-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1646702980

Trapped in a curse for a hundred years, the Bard of Souvac has traveled the length and breadth of the world, searching always for a way to be freed from his prison of immortality; but first he must find the truth about those who imprisoned him in life. Now with a glimmer of hope, the Bard returns to the very place where the curse was initiated, knowing that this time, he would find the missing pieces to the mystery of his freedom. Gathering together an unlikely group, the Bard will travel high into the White Mountains of the North for the last piece of information that will grant him liberty, or so he believes...

Bard

Bard
Author: Keith Taylor
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2020-05-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1645402134

THE ANCIENT MAGIC OF IRELAND LET LOOSE IN THE STRINGS OF A HARP…. The wilderness of oak, ash, and thorn that men call the Forest of Andred existed long before the Saxons en­tered Britain, or Caesar's legions pressed against Kentish resistance, and even before the first iron-using Celts set foot on the island. Here lives the clan of mandrake—the strange, gnarled vegetable folk. Here trods the unicorn, with blue vapor curling softly from nostrils soft as a woman's breast and dainty, precise hooves lethal as maces. Here are the sacred groves long abandoned, where Druids once fed the trees with human blood. Through this forest of sorcery and a society governed by the sword travels Felimid mac Fal, Bard of Erin, descendant of Druids and the Tuatha de Danann—the ancient faery race of Ireland, armed only with his harp and the fierce magical power of his poetry....

The Dragon's Bard

The Dragon's Bard
Author: Melody Tiamat
Publisher: Robin Banco Limited Editions
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2004
Genre:
ISBN: 0973826207