Tradition and Influence in Anglo-Irish Poetry

ISBN-13: 9781349094721 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 201 str.

Terence Brown; Nicholas Grene

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A collection of essays presenting an "insider" view of the Irish poetic tradition. It brings together some of the best-known poets and critics writing in Ireland today, exploring the multiple traditions and influences within Anglo-Irish poetry from the 19th century to the present.

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Constitution, language and tradition in nineteenth-century Irish poetry, R.Welch; Yeats - the creation of an audience, S.Deane; Yeats and the re-making of Synge, N.Grene; Austin Clarke - tradition, memory and our lot, P.Denman; Louis MacNiece's Ireland, T.Brown; Patrick Kavanagh's Parish myth, A.Quinn; an absence of influence - three modernist poets, G.Dawe; Derek Mahon's human perspective, B.Kennelly; Poetry forms and social deformations, E.Longley ; the placeless heaven - another look at Kavanagh, S.Heaney