Starting Lines in Scottish, Irish, and English Poetry: From Burns to Heaney

ISBN-13: 9780198186373 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 368 str.

Fiona Stafford

Opis

Are literary ideas of originality and imitation, allusion and influence inherently political if the poems emerge from different sides of a border or of a colonial relationship? Taking as a framework the history of relations between Ireland, England, and Scotland since the 1707 Union, the book explores this question through a series of close readings.

Recenzje

The background reading is both wide-ranging and detailed, so that the poems are located on a series of interlocking maps, national and international. Nor does the author hesitate to venture into terra incognita.