Contemporary Irish Poetry, New and Revised editon [Paperback]

Anthony Bradley (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 15, 1988

The poems featured in this anthology are quintessentially human documents informed by humor, compassion, and a joyful and visionary element--an impulse to praise what is really life and to protect it from the naysayers--as well as by a salutary realism and irony.
This revised edition features the work of Tom Paulin, Medbh McGuckian, Paul Durcan, Aidan Carl Mathews, Anne Hartigan, Nuala ní Dhomhnaill, and others who were not included in the first edition. Moreover, the selections from those poets featured in the first edition have, in many cases, been extensively changed and updated. In total, more than half the poems published in this second edition did not appear in the first.

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"Anthony Bradley has edited [this anthology] with care and good sense. . . . The book is inclusive, the selections first rate, the biographical and textual notes brief and useful -- a truly excellent anthology." (Thomas Parkinson, The Georgia Review

"Ireland's many fine poets in the shadow of Yeats have until now not been accorded appropriate recognition in the U. S. . . .Bradley's handsome, well-conceived anthology . . .is a much needed one." -- Shaun O'Connell, Boston Globe

About the Author

Anthony Bradley was born in Ireland. He holds degrees from Queen's University, Belfast and the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is Professor of English at the University of Vermont, where he teaches Modern Irish Literature.

Product Details

• Paperback: 420 pages
• Publisher: University of California Press; Revised edition (November 15, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0520058747
• ISBN-13: 978-0520058743
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Anthony Bradley is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Vermont. He was born in Ireland, and educated at St Malachy's College and Queen's University, Belfast. He traveled to the US on a Fulbright, and was awarded a PhD in English from SUNY at Buffalo. For many years he taught Irish literature at the University of Vermont, where he was the Frederick and Fannie Corse Professor of Language and Literature and department chair. He was awarded a fellowship at the National University of Ireland, Galway, by the Irish American Cultural Institute, and was a research fellow at Queen's University's Institute of Irish Studies. In addition to his books, he has given many lectures and written numerous articles and reviews on Irish writing.

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This review is from: Contemporary Irish Poetry, New and Revised editon (Paperback)

Bradley's sure hand makes "Contemporay Irish Poetry" an engaging introduction to Irish poetry after Yeates, and his selections - such writers are Kavenaugh, Clarke, Kinsella and Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney - show an eye for the major figures of today and thier influential predecessors, while not neglecting younger voices. Bradley's judicious selections from the individual writers lend a sense of their larger oeuvre, and the arrangement of the poets, the short bios which preface thier work and the convenient notes allow the reader to gain a sense of the larger issues of 20th century Ireland which the poets confront in their work. Very nicely done.