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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quinn, Justin, 1968- author.

Series:

Cambridge introductions to literature.

Cambridge introductions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English poetry.

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

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

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

Irish poetry.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

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 aspects of the field. Justin Quinn argues that the language issues of Irish poetry have been misconceived and re-examines the divide between Gaelic and Anglophone poetry. Quinn suggests an alternative to both nationalist and revisionist interpretations and fundamentally challenges existing ideas of Irish poetry. This lucid book offers a rich contextual background against which to read the individual works, 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

The appearance of Ireland

Tennyson's Ireland

Revival

W.B. Yeats

Wild earth

The ends of modernism : Kinsella and Irish experiment

Ireland's empire

Seamus Heaney

Irsko po Polsku : poetry and translation

Feminism and Irish poetry

Out of Ireland : Muldoon and other émigrés

The disappearance of Ireland.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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

ISBN:

1-107-17554-2

0-511-61153-6

0-511-64976-2

0-511-39228-1

0-511-56780-4

0-511-39359-8

OCLC:

437204642