CELTIC CONSCIOUSNESS PA

The Celtic Consciousness, which ranges from prehistoric to modern times, contains fifty-five essays written by leading authorities on the Celtic world. Employing a diversity of scholarly approaches, and illustrated with 170 half-tone illustrations, the book examines the myths, music, history, literature, folklore, art, and archaeology of the Celtic peoples, their place in Central Europe and their connections with the Near and Far East. The book amply demonstrates that the roots of Western civilization may lay less in the Mediterranean than in the great pre-Roman Celtic presence, and how these Celtic values and perceptions have enjoyed a resurgence in our own century.

An attractive book, designed to please both eye and hand... .A massive feast, as well provided as those mythical Celtic banquets, supplied from the inexhaustible cauldron of plenty. There is something essentially Celtic in both the generosity and the ardor of this book. -- Boston Globe

This rich collection of articles attends to the whole essence and oeuvre of a civilization... .A sourcebook of unquestionable worth. -- Los Angeles Times

Yeats and other key figures in the 'Celtic revival' believed there had to be and eventually would be the kind of substantial verifying scholarly work which this book so ably demonstrates.... In these varied pages one becomes deeply aware of the Celtic mode of perception. -- The Christian Science Monitor