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Excerpt from The Irish Poems of Alfred Perceval Graves: Songs of the Gael; A Gaelic Story-Telling
But tbis was in time gone by. Of late years tbere bas come over mucb of Graves' poetry a cbange, and to my mind a bigb significant and suggestive ebange, wbicb difi'erentiates tbc Songs of tbc Gael from bis preceding poems - from its predecessors in a manner wbicb is quite unmistakable. I call tbc ebange significant and suggestive because it marks, in a manner tbat all may read, tbc efiect of tbe Gaelic Revival upon one wbo does not know Gaelic, but wbo, being an I risbman and a scbolar, bas felt bound to keep in toucb witb tbc modern development of bis country and ber literature. Indeed, tbis new note in Mr. Graves' poetr follows, I sbould tbink, almost naturally from tbc surround. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
