Keith Bosley

The first-ever anthology of Finnish poetry in English translation from translations of psalms to Pentti Saarikoski. Keith Bosley's translations from Finnish include two anthologies or oral poetry, books of Eino Leino and Aleksis Kivi, the Kalevala and the selection from the Kanteletar.

Poetry from Finland

Skating on the Sea

Matti Kuusi

Michael Branch

Epic : an Anthology in Finnish and English

Finnish Folk Poetry

A Trail for Singers presents a selection of the ancient epic poetry of the Baltic-Finnish region, from Estonia in the south to Finnish and Russian Karelia in the north. Springing from the same background as the more famous Kalevala, the Finnish national epic', the 148 poems in this book bring alive the vanished world of the hunters and fishermen of Karelia and the serfs of Ingria, bound to the land. From ancient myths about the origin of the universe to an eighteenth-century elegy sung to army recruits as they left home, the poems take the readers back to an age when shamanism was still prevalent and show how Christianity replaced the old beliefs. At the same time they are a testimony to the power of the human imagination and to man's need for art.

Finnish Folk Poetry : Epic

A Trail for Singers

Tibor Klaniczay

Bertha Caster

11th-18th Centuries

Old Hungarian Literary Reader

The Chiltern Hundreds were three subdivisions of South Bucks - Desborough, Burnham and Stoke. This last is shared with Berkshire and dominated by the urban sprawl of Slough. This book celebrates it with a hundred poems of many kinds - historical, topographical, satirical and lyrical. It includes Classical odes, and ballade and villanelle.

A Chiltern Hundred

Keith Bosley

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