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Author Clark, Heather L.

Title The Ulster renaissance : poetry in Belfast, 1962-1972 / Heather Clark
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 245 pages) : illustrations
Contents Beginnings -- The Belfast Group -- Renaissance -- 'Genuine accents' -- 'MacSimmittoon' -- Separate selves
Summary This is the first full-length study of the period of intense poetic activity in Belfast known as the Ulster Renaissance. It is a readable, jargon-free literary history which investigates the early friendships of poets Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, James Simmons, and Paul Muldoon - commonly referred to as the 'Belfast Group' - in the years before the major onset of violence in Northern Ireland. - ;This is the first full-length study of the extraordinary period of intense poetic activity in Belfast known as the Ulster Renaissance - a time when young Northern Irish poets such as Se
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-231) and index
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Subject English poetry -- Irish authors -- History and criticism
English poetry -- Northern Ireland -- Belfast -- History and criticism
English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English poetry
English poetry -- Irish authors
Intellectual life
Literature
Gedichten.
SUBJECT Belfast (Northern Ireland) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) -- In literature
Belfast (Northern Ireland) -- In literature
Subject Ireland -- Ulster
Northern Ireland -- Belfast
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005036615
ISBN 0191536946
9781435610125
1435610121
9780191536946
1281154504
9781281154507
9786611154509
6611154507