The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry, 1800-2000

The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry, 1800-2000
Author: Justin Quinn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2008-04-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521609258

Over the last two centuries, Ireland has produced some of the world's most outstanding and best-loved poets, from Thomas Moore to W. B. Yeats to Seamus Heaney. This introduction not only provides an essential overview of the history and development of poetry in Ireland, but also offers new approaches to aspects of the field. Justin Quinn argues that the language issues of Irish poetry have been misconceived and re-examines the divide between Gaelic and Anglophone poetry. Quinn suggests an alternative to both nationalist and revisionist interpretations and fundamentally challenges existing ideas of Irish poetry. This lucid book offers a rich contextual background against which to read the individual works, and pays close attention to the major poems and poets. Readers and students of Irish poetry will learn much from Quinn's sharp and critically acute account.

The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets

The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets
Author: Gerald Dawe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2018
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108420354

A fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry
Author: Fran Brearton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 744
Release: 2012-10-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199561249

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry consists of 40 essays by leading scholars and new researchers in the field. Beginning with W.B.Yeats, the figure who towers over the century's poetry, it includes chapters on the major poets to have emerged in Ireland over the last 100 years.

The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry
Author: Matthew Campbell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 525
Release: 2003-08-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 113982676X

In the last fifty years Irish poets have produced some of the most exciting poetry in contemporary literature, writing about love and sexuality, violence and history, country and city. This book, first published in 2003, provides an introduction to major figures such as Seamus Heaney, and also introduces the reader to significant precursors like Louis MacNeice or Patrick Kavanagh, and vital contemporaries and successors: among others, Thomas Kinsella, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Paul Muldoon. Readers will find discussions of Irish poetry from the traditional to the modernist, written in Irish as well as English, from both North and South. This Companion provides cultural and historical background to contemporary Irish poetry in the contexts of modern Ireland but also in the broad currents of modern world literature. It includes a chronology and guide to further reading and will prove invaluable to students and teachers alike.

The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism

The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism
Author: Joseph N. Cleary
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2014-08-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107031419

This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to Irish modernism, offering readers an accessible overview of key writers and artists.

Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry

Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry
Author: Peter Mackay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2011-04-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139499947

The comparative study of the literatures of Ireland and Scotland has emerged as a distinct and buoyant field in recent years. This collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparison of modern Irish and Scottish poetry, featuring close readings of texts within broad historical and political contextualisation. Playing on influences, crossovers, connections, disconnections and differences, the 'affinities' and 'opposites' traced in this book cross both Irish and Scottish poetry in many directions. Contributors include major scholars of the new 'archipelagic' approach, as well as leading Irish and Scottish poets providing important insights into current creative practice. Poets discussed include W. B. Yeats, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, Louis MacNeice, Edwin Morgan, Douglas Dunn, Seamus Heaney, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala ni Dhomhnaill, Don Paterson and Kathleen Jamie. This book is a major contribution to our understanding of poetry from these islands in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The Wrong Country

The Wrong Country
Author: Gerald Dawe
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2018-06-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1788550285

Poetics of the Local

Poetics of the Local
Author: Shirley Lau Wong
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2023-07-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1438493835

Poetics of the Local considers contemporary Irish poetry in light of transnational forces of globalization and financialization, showing how these conditions have shaped poetic innovation in Ireland from the 1960s to the present. The book is organized around different sites caught in the growing pains of a rapidly globalizing Ireland—from the "ghost estates," or housing projects abandoned after the economic boom of the 1990s, to the urban "regeneration" of Belfast after the Troubles, to the transformation of Dublin into a hub for creative economy programs like the UNESCO City of Literature. In readings of works by Thomas Kinsella, Paula Meehan, Seamus Heaney, John Montague, Ciaran Carson, Leontia Flynn, Alan Gillis, Sinéad Morrissey, and Paul Muldoon, Shirley Lau Wong argues that the enduring centrality of place in Irish poetry should be seen not as a hangover of nostalgic nationalism but rather as an exploration of the material and emplaced effects of the seemingly faraway processes of global capitalism.

The Writings of Padraic Colum

The Writings of Padraic Colum
Author: Pádraic Whyte
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2024-05-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040028152

This co-edited collection breaks new ground by bringing together several leading scholars to explore the substantial body of work produced by Padraic Colum (1881–1972) who was a poet, a novelist, a dramatist, a biographer, a writer of fiction for adults and children, and a collector of folklore. The awards, honours, and distinction conferred upon him and his work throughout his life and career, as well as retrospectively, give an indication of the significant and wide-ranging appeal and influence of Colum not only as an Irish writer and storyteller but also as a literary figure entrusted with the myths and legends of other cultures and nations. Despite such achievements, he has received comparatively little critical or scholarly attention to date. This volume showcases the richness of Colum’s work by subjecting it to a rigorous literary and theoretical examination and is the first combined and detailed analysis of both his children’s and adult texts.

Literary Coteries and the Irish Women Writers' Club (1933-1958)

Literary Coteries and the Irish Women Writers' Club (1933-1958)
Author: Deirdre F. Brady
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2021
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1789622468

This book is an original account of coterie culture in twentieth-century Ireland and the networks and connections which fostered women's writing. It paints a vivid portrait of the inspirational women involved in the Women Writers' Club, showcasing their influence and achievements in literature and their political campaigning for intellectual and creative freedom.