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Author Randolph, Jody Allen

Title Eavan Boland / Jody Allen Randolph
Published Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2013]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Contemporary Irish writers
Contents Introduction -- The poetics of origin. Beginnings; The muse mother -- The nexus of influence. Claims of belonging; The dour line -- From patria to matria. The first draft; In her own image; Night feed -- Out of myth into history. The journey; Outside history; The telling of stories -- Changing the past. A time of violence; Object lessons; The lost land -- Exiles in our own country. Against love poetry; Domestic violence; Journeys and maps
Summary "In this powerful and authoritative study Jody Allen Randolph provides the fullest account yet of the work of a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature as well as in contemporary women's writing. Eavan Boland's achievement in changing the map of Irish poetry is tracked and analyzed from her first poems to the present. The book traces the evolution of that achievement, guiding the reader through Boland's early attachment to Yeats, her growing unease with the absence of women's writing, her encounter with pioneering American poets like Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, and Adrienne Rich, and her eventual, challenging amendments in poetry and prose to Ireland's poetic tradition. Using research from private papers the book also traces a time of upheaval and change in Ireland, exploring Boland's connection to Mary Robinson, in a chapter that details the nexus of a woman president and a woman poet in a country that was resistant to both. Finally, this book invites the reader to share a compelling perspective on the growth of a poet described by one critic as Ireland's "first great woman poet"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Boland, Eavan -- Criticism and interpretation
Boland, Eavan
SUBJECT Boland, Eavan fast
Subject English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism
English literature -- Women authors -- Biography
English literature -- Irish authors -- Biography
English literature -- Irish authors
English literature -- Women authors
Genre/Form Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Bucknell University Press.
ISBN 1611485371
9781611485370
1306171288
9781306171281