Irish poets have produced some of the most exciting poetry in contemporary literature over the last fifty years. In addition to providing a unique introduction to major figures such as Seamus Heaney, this Companion introduces the reader to significant precursors such as Louis MacNeice or Patrick Kavanagh, as well as vital contemporaries and successors (including among others, Thomas Kinsella, Paul Muldoon and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill.) The volume includes a chronology and guide to further reading and will prove invaluable to students and teachers.
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'... for those of us teaching Irish poetry who have wished for a collection of essays that introduces students to the major themes of the twentieth century as we understand them today, this Companion will not disappoint.' Irish Studies
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In the last fifty years Irish poets have produced some of the most exciting poetry in contemporary literature. This book provides a unique introudction to major figures such as Seamus Heaney, but also introduces the reader to significant precursors like, Louis Macneice or Patrick Kavanagh, and vtial contemporaries and successors; among others, Thomas Kinsella, Paul Muldoon and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill. This Companion, the only book of its kind on the market, includes a chronology and guide to further reading and will prove invaluable to students and teachers alike.
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This is a collection characterized by astonishing oversights. The editor's acquaintance with contemporary Irish poetry appears to be faint indeed.
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Ireland in 1999 appeared to be ending its trouble-strewn twentieth century as a remarkably prosperous culturally confident and optimistic place. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stillness into history, burning perch, continuing city, dual tradition, pastoral lyrics, rough field, great hunger Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Northern Ireland, Seamus Heaney, Collected Poems, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, New York, Paul Muldoon, Thomas Kinsella, Eavan Boland, Gallery Press, Northern Irish, Austin Clarke, John Montague, Patrick Kavanagh, Robert Frost, The Great Hunger, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Deane, Brendan Kennelly, Oxford University Press, Paul Durcan, Edna Longley, Puzzle Tree, Station Island, United States New!
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Ireland in 1999 appeared to be ending its trouble-strewn twentieth century as a remarkably prosperous culturally confident and optimistic place. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stillness into history, burning perch, continuing city, dual tradition, pastoral lyrics, rough field, great hunger Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Northern Ireland, Seamus Heaney, Collected Poems, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, New York, Paul Muldoon, Thomas Kinsella, Eavan Boland, Gallery Press, Northern Irish, Austin Clarke, John Montague, Patrick Kavanagh, Robert Frost, The Great Hunger, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Deane, Brendan Kennelly, Oxford University Press, Paul Durcan, Edna Longley, Puzzle Tree, Station Island, United States New!
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- Collected Poems (Norton Library) by Patrick Kavanagh on 13 pages
- The Great Hunger: Poem Into Play (Essays and Texts in Cultural History) by Patrick Kavanaugh on 12 pages
- Collected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics) by Patrick Kavanagh on 11 pages
- Louis Macneice (Writers & Their Work) by John Press on 10 pages
- Collected Poems by Karol Wojtyla on 9 pages
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- Robert Frost and Northern Irish Poetry (Oxford English Monographs) by Rachel Buxton on page 13, and Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Edward James in Index
- The Cambridge Companion to Dante (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Rachel Jacoff in Front Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Derek Attridge in Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Shelley (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Timothy Morton in Front Matter
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