In the same way that Andrew Carpenter's 1998 anthology "Verse in English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland" changed our perception of Irish writing in English from that period, so this companion volume "Verse in English from Tudor and Stuart Ireland" explodes the myth that no English verse of value has survived from sixteenth- or seventeenth-century Ireland. As this exciting and original anthology shows, hundreds of poets were active in Ireland at the time. The work of a few of them -- Edmund Spenser and the young Jonathan Swift in particular - is well-known today: but almost everything else in...
In the same way that Andrew Carpenter's 1998 anthology "Verse in English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland" changed our perception of Irish writing in E...
In the same way that Andrew Carpenter's 1998 anthology -Verse in English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland- changed our perception of Irish writing in English from that period, so this companion volume -Verse in English from Tudor and Stuart Ireland- explodes the myth that no English verse of value has survived from sixteenth- or seventeenth-century Ireland. As this exciting and original anthology shows, hundreds of poets were active in Ireland at the time. The work of a few of them -- Edmund Spenser and the young Jonathan Swift in particular - is well-known today: but almost everything else in...
In the same way that Andrew Carpenter's 1998 anthology -Verse in English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland- changed our perception of Irish writing in E...
This pioneering anthology introduces many previously neglected eighteenth-century writers to a general readership, and will lead to a re-examination of the entire canon of Irish verse in English.
Between 1700 and 1800, Dublin was second only to London as a center for the printing of poetry in English. Many fine poets were active during this period. However, because Irish eighteenth-century verse in English has to a great extent escaped the scholar and the anthologist, it is hardly known at all.
The most innovative aspect of this new anthology is the...
This pioneering anthology introduces many previously neglected eighteenth-century writers to a general readership, and will lead to a re-examination o...
This annotated anthology of poems makes available a rich variety of Irish texts depicting the relationship between humans and the environment between the years 1580 and 1820. More than a hundred poems are printed here, together with an extensive critical introduction, notes on each text, and a full bibliography. All the poets whose work is represented were born in Ireland or are identified as Irish.
This annotated anthology of poems makes available a rich variety of Irish texts depicting the relationship between humans and the environment between ...
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