Robin Flower was een Engelse dichter en geleerde, bekend om zijn expertise in Keltische en Angelsaksische studies en zijn vertalingen uit het Iers. Zijn werk kenmerkt zich door een diepgaande betrokkenheid bij oude literaire tradities, die hij vakkundig toegankelijk maakt voor hedendaagse lezers. In Ierland staat hij liefkozend bekend onder de naam "Bláithín", wat "Kleine Bloem" betekent. Door zijn poëzie en vertalingen blazen Flower oude verhalen en ideeën nieuw leven in met opmerkelijke gevoeligheid en elegantie.
First published in 1947, these celebrated lectures and introductions to the medieval and modern Gaelic-speaking culture form a primary source for generations of scholars and readers, Celticists and medievalists. This edition is accompanied by Professor Delargy's In Memoriam and an updated bibliography of Flower's works.
First published in 1931, Robin Flower’s enchanting lyric poetry combines with his translations from the old, medieval and modern periods of Irish literature.
An increasing amount of work in many aspects of human geography is concerned with the effects caused by different types of institutions. Included in this book, originally published in 1982, is material from Britain, Ameican and Europe and it is shown that differences in institutional powers in these places, especially those vested in the State, relate directly to their own particular urban and environmental policies and problems. Each chapter, written by an expert on this subject, considers key institutions in a number of fields and draws conclusions about how this 'institutionalist' approach can be used by geographers.