The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry, 1800?2000 (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
Cambridge University Press, 4/17/2008
EAN 9780521609258, ISBN10: 0521609259
Paperback, 258 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
Language: English
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.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The appearance of Ireland
2. Tennyson's Ireland
3. Revival
4. W. B. Yeats
5. Wild earth
6. The ends of modernism
7. Ireland's empire
8. Seamus Heaney
9. Irsko po polsku
poetry and translation
10. Feminism and Irish poetry
11. Out of Ireland
Muldoon and other emigrés
12. The disappearance of Ireland
Guide to further reading.