Irish poetry from the English invasion to 1798 / by Russell K. Alspach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alspach, Russell K. (Russell King), 1901-1980, author.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English poetry.

Ireland.

Ireland--In literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (148 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1960.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Gaelic or English?

3. From the Invasion to 1400

4. The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

5. The Seventeenth Century: Fingal, Forth, and Bargy

6. From 1700 to 1798

2. The Beginnings: Campion to Walsh

3. Molyneux, Swift, and MacCurtin

4. Keating and Dermod O’Connor

5. After Keating

6. Some Early Translators of Gaelic Poetry

7. Charlotte Brooke

8.То the Nineteenth Century

Bibliography

Index

Part I. THE POETRY

2. Gaelic or English

Part II. THE MATTER OF IRELAND

4. Keating and Dermod O'Connor

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781512800173

1512800171

OCLC:

979743576