Elves and Heroes [Paperback]

Donald A. MacKenzie (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2004

My lightsome lad, my leering lad, He's tittering here; he's tittering there-- I'll hear him plain, but seek in vain To find my lad wi' yellow hair.

Product Details

• Paperback: 60 pages
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing (June 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1419117645
• ISBN-13: 978-1419117640
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Well-Versed, April 28, 2011

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This review is from: Elves and Heroes (Kindle Edition)

Can I just say that I'm really glad the fad of writing fairy tales as poems died out over a hundred years ago? I mean, these weren't bad, and I don't mind occasionally reading poetry, but I just can't see it as being that exciting, and I'm overjoyed that the market isn't flooded with these things.

I did get an extra kick of amusement out of these by having my kindle's read-to-me program read them to me. The kindle has rather a flair for poetry, although I felt it missed the proper emphasis on some of the lines.

This book contains a bunch of fairy tales or epics rewritten in verse. There is no active Table of Contents and the footnotes are unlinked, but there are no other formatting errors.

Contains the following poems:

The Wee Folk
Bonnach Fallaidh
The Banshee
Conn, Son of the Red
The Blue Men of the Minch
The Urisk
The Nimble Men
My Gunna
The Gruagach
The Little Old Man of the Barn
Yon Fairy Dog
The Water-Horse
My Fairy Lover
The Fians of Knockfarrel
Her Evil Eye
A Cursing
Leobag's Warning
Tober Mhuire
Sleepy Song
Song of the Sea
The Death of Cuchullin
Lost Songs
Other Poems
Free Will
Strife
Sonnet
"Out of the Mouths of Babes" (which is about a dead baby, and not a really great note to end on)