Facing the music : Irish poetry in the twentieth century / Eamon Grennan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grennan, Eamon, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English poetry.

English poetry--Irish authors.

English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Irish poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Irish poetry.

Ireland--Intellectual life--20th century.

Ireland.

Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

xx, 436 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Omaha, Neb. : Creighton University Press ; Bronx, N.Y. : Distribution [by] Fordham University Press, [1999]

Summary:

In Facing the Music, poet and critic Eamon Grennan gives comprehensive and imaginative life to the modern Irish poetic tradition. With Yeats as the starting point, these essays constitute a suite of intimate engagements with the matter and manner of the poetic intelligence as it declares itself in poets as diverse as Kavanagh, Muldoon, Kinsella, and McGuckian, and as it is also to be found in the work of James Joyce and John McGahern. Whether he is dealing with a theme or a trope, Grennan writes with the same impassioned tact that marks his own prize-winning poetry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1881871282

1881871290

OCLC:

39615640