Northern Windows/Southern Stars; Selected Early Essays 1983-1994

ISBN-13: 9781800796522 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 166 str.

Eamon Maher; Gerald Dawe

Opis

Northern Windows/ Southern Stars is a valuable, accessible and thought-provoking gathering of essays by the distinguished Irish poet and Professor Emeritus, Gerald Dawe.

Recenzje

«Gerald Dawe is both acute and judicious in dealing with the poet's role in a politically-tattered society. And even if some of Dawe's views are mistaken, time will surely pardon him for writing well.» (Neil Powell, PN Review (UK))

Spis treści

Contents: Brief Confrontations - A Gritty Prod Baroque: Tom Paulin - Northern Windows/ Southern Stars - A Question of Imagination - How's the Poetry Going? - Invocation of Powers: John Montague - Potent Music: Yeats's Legacy - Critical Mass - The Parochial Idyll: W. R. Rodgers - An Unmoved Mind: John Millington Synge - Our Secret Being: Padraic Fiacc - Breathing Spaces: Brendan Kennelly.

O autorze

Gerald Dawe was born in 1952 in Belfast and attended the universities of Ulster and Galway. He taught for thirty years at Trinity College Dublin. Since his first collection Sheltering Places appeared in 1978 he has published over twenty books of poetry and non-fiction. He lives in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin.