A Celtic Psaltery: Being Mainly Renderings in English Verse from Irish & Welsh Poetry

This book brings together the ancient voices of Ireland and Wales, rendered into English verse by a poet who understood that translation is its own form of creation. The Irish poems trace the arrival of Christianity to a pagan island, revealing a spirituality that never fully abandoned its older energies - saints and kings debate, laugh, and meditate in verses that hum with unexpected humor and hard-won wisdom. Welsh material adds another register of mythological weight. Graves wrestles with the impossible task of carrying music across languages, and his struggles are as illuminating as his successes. For anyone seeking the roots of English-language poetry, or the deep currents beneath Celtic identity, this collection remains a singular achievement: not a museum piece, but a living conversation between centuries.