M. Tymoczko "Inversions, subversions, reversions: the form of eraly irish narrative."
Hildegard L.C. Tristram
Text und Zeittiefe
Tübingen 1994
There is, paradoxically, highly emotional first-person lyric poetry in early Celtic tradition - some of the most moving poetry in medieval literature, but it is a poetry of masks ... (p. 75)
Celtic literature, thus, is conspicuously lacking in epic and drama as primary forms, and, if we insist on a personal voice in lyric, then Celtic tradition must be defined as lacking lyric as well. (p. 79)
Hildegard L.C. Tristram
Text und Zeittiefe
Tübingen 1994
There is, paradoxically, highly emotional first-person lyric poetry in early Celtic tradition - some of the most moving poetry in medieval literature, but it is a poetry of masks ... (p. 75)
Celtic literature, thus, is conspicuously lacking in epic and drama as primary forms, and, if we insist on a personal voice in lyric, then Celtic tradition must be defined as lacking lyric as well. (p. 79)