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Автор: , O`Grady Standish
Название: The Coming of Cuculain
ISBN: 9781070259949
Издательство: Independently Published
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1070259942
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 194
Вес: 0.27 кг.
Дата издания: 25.05.2019
Язык: English
Размер: 22.86 x 15.24 x 1.04 cm
Поставляется из: США
Описание: MR. OGRADYS works, like the great cycles of Gaelic literature, may be divided into three parts. This divisio triplex is of unquestionable antiquity. There is a Tripartite Life of St. Patrick. Omnis Gallia divisa est in partes tres, says Caesar. Omne trinum perfectum comes from the schools. And so Mr. OGradys works are threefold: historical, historico-romantic, and legendary. Of his historical style and value we formerly gave our views of his Storm of Ireland, a book against which we warned the young men of Ireland and against which we hesitate not to warn them again. His historico-romantic style-what is commonly known as the historical novel - is seen in The Captivity of Red Hugh - a book not quite so indiscreet as the above story but indiscreet enough. We can speak more highly of his legendary tales than we can of any other. From which it doth appear that Mr. OGradys success as a writer varies in direct ratio to the distance he keeps from all historical matter. The Coming of Cuculain is a romance of the heroic age of Ireland, and you have not advanced far before you discover that when Mr. OGrady finds a heroic topic he wields his pen in heroic style. Battles, encounters, banquets, goblets, spears, Druids, enchantments, forays, shields clanging in battle, and forests and hills trembling at the sight, and all in a wild strain of Ossianic rhetoric, la McPherson (which really suits the gigantic events of the ancient heroes), are the embellishments of the short tale of the boyhood of Cuculain. The latter was obviously a champion, and some of his fights are entertaining reading; while in Deidr - ancient Celtic Jephtha-there is a very refined embodiment of a noble idea. Of course we purposely abstain from indicating anything further about Cuculain, as we prefer our readers to encourage Mr. OGrady to continue his labors in embodying some more of the great heroic legends of Firbolgian and Femorian times, by turning to the book itself.

The Coming of Cuculain, , O`Grady Standish