Milesian Fables

Title

en_US Milesian Fables

Description

en_US Signed by Alexis Lykiard

en_US By Alexis Lykiard

Creator

en_US Lykiard, Alexis

Contributor

en_US Hyde, Ric

Date

2016-01-25T20:11:08Z

en_US 2006-10

en_US 1976

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:11:08Z

Date Issued

en_US 1976

Abstract

en_US Now, six years later, I at last get to catalogue this booklet of about 24 pages. Milesian Tales are generally known, I believe, as saucy tales. The expression tends to suggest tales of love and adventure of the sort strung together in Apuleius' Golden Ass or Margaret of Navarre's Heptameron. The genre seems to be tied especially to Aristides, a writer, says Wikipedia, of shameless and amusing tales with some salacious content and unexpected plot twists. Lykiard speaks here in his introduction of this booklet as the result of an experiment of a poetry-journal. There is plenty of reference to the Irish setting in which the book was written. I find fewer Aesopian references, in fact only one that I catch in a poem titled Progression: Here, our whole life/ becomes a poem./City strife, country home. I find here a lovely echo of TMCM. Perhaps I miss other Aesopic references. The poems do express in engaging fashion the love of nature and the sense of exile that he refers to in that introduction. There are a number of tributes from fellow poets on the back cover.

Identifier

en_US 9780902771505 (signed)

en_US 7680 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82939

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Arc Publications

en_US Lancs, UK

Subject

en_US PR6062.Y47 M5 1976

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole