Robert Lowell and Irish Poetry

ISBN-13: 9781788745093 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 270 str.

Philip Coleman; Eve Cobain

Opis

This is the first book to provide comprehensive treatment of Robert Lowell's engagements with Irish poetry. It includes original contributions by leading and emerging scholars from both sides of the Atlantic.

Spis treści

Philip Coleman and Eve Cobain: Introduction

Anna Chahoud: The Orator and the Poet: J.V. Luce on Robert Lowell

John Victor Luce: Oration on the Conferral of an Honorary DLitt Degree on Robert Lowell by the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 31 May 1976

Paul Muldoon: Robert Lowell at Castletown House

Steven Gould Axelrod: Robert Lowell in Dark Times

Frank J. Kearful: Names and Naming: Robert Lowell and the Boston Irish

Alex Runchman: Weaving the Great Clan: Robert Lowell, Robert Kennedy and

Martin Luther King

Adam Beardsworth: From Terrible Beauty to Stale and Small: W.B. Yeats's Influence on Robert Lowell's Political Poetry

Calista McRae: Robert Lowell and Louis MacNeice: Reading Likeness through Elegy

Karl O'Hanlon: Rebels in Formal Dress: Robert Lowell, Denis Devlin and their Transatlantic Literary Network

Stephen Grace: 'thudding in a big sea': The Oceanic Ecologies of Robert Lowell and Seamus Heaney

Gerald Dawe: Waiting for the New Life: Reading Robert Lowell in Bangor, Co. Down, in the 1970s

Michael Hinds: Name and Shame: 'Identification in Belfast'

Lucy Collins: Lost Connections: Reading Family in the Poetry of Eavan Boland and Robert Lowell

Ellen Dillon: Radical Tensions: Robert Lowell, Charles Altieri and Catherine Walsh

Eve Cobain: 'The way we are living': Robert Lowell and Leontia Flynn

Julie O'Callaghan: Seamus Heaney Introducing Robert Lowell in Kilkenny, 1975

Seamus Heaney: Introduction to Robert Lowell Reading at Kilkenny Arts Week, Kytler's Inn, Kilkenny, 28 August 1975

Marie Heaney: Afterword

O autorze

Eve Cobain received a PhD from Trinity College Dublin in 2017. Her doctoral research, which was funded by the Irish Research Council, explored the signi_ cance of music in the poetry of John Berryman. She has been an Occasional Lecturer in the School of English, Trinity College and an Early Career Researcher based at the Trinity Long Room Hub. She has published essays on John Berryman, Richard Murphy, and other aspects of modern and contemporary poetry.Philip Coleman is an Associate Professor in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin, where he is also a Fellow. His most recent publications include John Berryman's Public Vision (2014) and Berryman's Fate: A Centenary Celebration in Verse (2014). He has also co-edited John Berryman: Centenary Essays (2017) and George Saunders: Critical Essays (2017). With Calista McRae, he is co-editing The Selected Letters of John Berryman.