Hard it is to stir my tongue. Raiding the otherworld for the elixir of poetry

by Clive Tolley

$75 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2019. 8vo, pp. xxiii, 272; pictorial boards; fine. Folklore Fellows' Communications 317. This book surveys some of the ways poets have thought of their craft, focusing particularly on medieval sources which see the Otherworld as a fastness of poetic inspiration whence it has to raided. Item #70681

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