The Role of the Poet in Early Societies

by Morton W. Bloomfield and Charles W. Dunn

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This study draws on a wide range of texts - early Irish, pre-modern Scottish Gaelic, early Welsh, Early Norse, Old English -to illustrate the role of the poet as a tool of power, as seer, and as ceremonial figure.
  • ISBN10 0859913473
  • ISBN13 9780859913478
  • Publish Date 16 April 1992 (first published 3 August 1989)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 28 May 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • Imprint D.S. Brewer
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 176
  • Language English