Results for: books tagged ‘Legends’
Season Songs: Ted Hughes
Over Nine Waves: Marie Heaney
'These legends are the action-packed stories - of ancient heroes, huge battles, attempted invasions, prophecies and spells, clashes between the underworld and the real world, abductions, love affairs and feasts ... More
The Brazen Head: John Cowper Powys
In this panoramic novel of Friar Roger Bacon, John Cowper Powys displays his genius at its most fecund. First published in 1956, this novel, set in thirteenth-century Wessex, is an ... More
A Woman Scorn'd: Edited by Michael Burden
Dido and Aeneas has been one of the most compelling and durable of the great classical myths. The material the story offers has led artists, authors and musicians throughout the ... More
The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables: Robert Henryson / Seamus Heaney
An exciting new translation of a classic poem from the greatest of late medieval Scottish writers by Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney. More