The Cambridge introduction to modern Irish poetry, 1800-2000 / Justin Quinn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quinn, Justin, 1968-

Series:

Cambridge introductions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English poetry.

English poetry--Irish authors.

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

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

x, 246 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Introduction to modern Irish poetry, 1800-2000

Modern Irish poetry, 1800-2000

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Summary:

Over the last two centuries, Ireland has produced some of the world's most outstanding and best-loved poets, from Thomas Moore to W. B. Yeats to Seamus Heaney. This introduction not only provides an essential overview of the history and development of poetry in Ireland, but also offers new approaches to the field. This lucid book offers a rich contextual background and pays close attention to the major poems and poets. Readers and students of Irish poetry will learn much from Quinn's sharp and critically acute account.

Contents:

Introduction 1

1 The appearance of Ireland / Thomas Moore, J. J. Callanan, James Clarence Mangan 7

2 Tennyson's Ireland / James Henry, Samuel Ferguson, William Allingham 26

3 Revival / Douglas Hyde, Katharine Tynan, Ethna Carbery, Emily Lawless, Eva Gore-Booth, Padraic Colum, Susan L. Mitchell, Francis Ledwidge, J. M. Synge, Oscar Wilde 44

4 W. B. Yeats 59

5 Wild earth / Padraic Colum, Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice 80

6 The ends of Modernism: Kinsella and Irish experiment / Denis Devlin, Brian Coffey, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Trevor Joyce, Randolph Healy, Maurice Scully 97

7 Ireland's Empire / Richard Murphy, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley 113

8 Seamus Heaney 130

9 Irsko po Polsku: poetry and translation / Sean O Riordain, Mairtin O Direain, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Gearoid Mac Lochlainn, Michael Hartnett, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, Peter Fallon, Aidan Rooney, Samuel Beckett 143

10 Feminism and Irish poetry / Eavan Boland, Paula Meehan, Catherine Walsh, Medbh McGuckian, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain 161

11 Out of Ireland: Muldoon and other emigres / Paul Muldoon, Greg Delanty, Eavan Boland, Peter Fallon, Eamon Grennan, Harry Clifton, Peter McDonald, Tom Paulin, Bernard O'Donoghue, Ian Duhig 175

12 The disappearance of Ireland / Paul Durcan, Dennis O'Driscoll, Kevin Higgins, Ciaran Carson, Peter Sirr, Sinead Morrissey, David Wheatley, Vona Groarke, Conor O'Callaghan, Caitriona O'Reilly 194.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-235) and index.

ISBN:

9780521846738

0521846730

9780521609258

0521609259

OCLC:

166382303