Research Catalog

Title

The winged destiny - Studies in the spiritual history of the Gael. By "Fiona Macleod" (William Sharp)

Author

Sharp, William, 1855-1905

Publication

London, W. Heinemann, 1910.

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Additional Authors

Sharp, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Amelia), 1856-1932

Description

xiii, 393 p. front.; 20 cm.

Summary

• "William Sharp (12 September 1855 - 12 December 1905) was a Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona MacLeod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime."--Wikipedia June 2011.
• ""To you, dear friend, let me dedicate this bindweed of thoughts and dreams, which had their life by the grey shores you, also, love ..." This is how Macleod began the timeless work, a compilation of lore from the land that fashioned him, his race, and his faith. In this volume, the master storyteller retells the ancient tales that have long been forgotten by his people, and lost in the annals of several thousand years of history. He resurrects such tales as:"The Wayfarer", "The Lords of Wisdom", "Cuilidh Mhoire", "The Lynn of Dreams", "Maya", and"The Awakening of Angus Og" and many more. If your ancestry is Irish-Gaelic, this book is a "must-read" for you. It is full of reminscing and an underlying, deep sorrow of a forgotten culture which is dying in the minds of its own people."--Amazon.com customer review (B. Kehler).

Series Statement

• The works of "Fiona Macleod." Uniform edition. v. 5
• Sharp, William, 1855-1905. Works of "Fiona Macleod" ; v. 5.

Subject

• Celts > Folkore
• Scottish Gaelic literature
• Folk literature, Irish
• Folk literature, Scottish Gaelic

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Sunset of old tales -- The Treud Nan Ron -- The Man on the moon -- The Woman at the Cross-ways -- The Lords of Wisdom -- The Wayfarer -- Queens of beauty -- Orpheus and Oisin -- The Awakening of Angus Og -- Children of the water -- Cuilidh Mhoire -- Sea-magic -- Fara-Ghaol -- Sorrow on the wind -- The Lynn of dreams -- Maya -- For the beauty of an idea : Prelude ; Celtic ; Gaelic heart -- Anima Celtica -- The Gael and his heritage -- Seuman, a memory -- Aileen, a memory -- The Four winds of Eirinn -- Two old songs of May -- "The Shadowy waters" -- A Triad -- The Ancient beauty -- The Winged destiny.

OCLC

• 28264102
• SCSB-12463393

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library