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Author Ifans, Rhiannon, author.

Title Red hearts and roses? : Welsh Valentine songs and poems / Rhiannon Ifans
Published Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (some color), maps
Contents Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Who was Saint Valentine?; The seventeenth century; The eighteenth century; The nineteenth century; Post-1900; Conclusions; Tunes; Amaryllis; Belle Isle March; Bryniau'r Werddon; Charity Mistress or Elusenni Meistres; Difyrrwch Gwŷr Emlyn; Diniweidrwydd; Fenyw Fwyn; Y Folantein; Hud y Frwynen; King's Round or Iechyd o Gylch; Leave Land or Gadael Tir; Let Mary Live Long or Hir Oes i Fair; The Lord Monk's March or Ymdaith Mwngc; Milking Pail
See the Building or Gwêl yr AdeiladSpanish Minuet; Stanes Morris; Sunselia; Synnwyr Solomon; Welsh Valentine Songs and Poems; Bibliography; Verse forms; Notes
Summary This volume presents the story of the saint who gave his name to the festival of lovers, Saint Valentine, known in Wales as Sant Ffolant, focusing specifically on the Welsh poetry written over the centuries on the feast day of Saint Valentine in mid-February
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Text mainly in English with some poems in Welsh
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Subject Valentine's Day -- Wales -- Poetry
Valentine's Day in literature.
Valentines -- Poetry
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Valentines
Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day in literature
Wales
Genre/Form Poetry
Form Electronic book
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