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Title The Cambridge companion to contemporary Irish poetry / edited by Matthew Campbell
Edition First edition
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003

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Description xv, 294 pages ; 24 cm
Series Cambridge companions to literature
Cambridge companions to literature.
Contents Ireland in poetry : 1999, 1949, 1969 / Matthew Campbell -- From Irish mode to modernisation : the poetry of Austin Clarke / John Goodby -- Patrick Kavanagh and antipastoral / Jonathan Allison -- Louis MacNeice : irony and responsibility / Peter McDonald -- Irish modernists and their legacy / Alex Davis -- Poetry of the 1960s : the 'Northern Ireland Renaissance' / Fran Brearton
Violence in Seamus Heaney's poetry / Dillon Johnston -- Mahon and Longley : place and placelessness / Terence Brown -- Between two languages : poetry in Irish, English and Irish English / Frank Sewell -- Boland, McGuckian, NĂ­ ChuilleanĂ¡in and the body of the nation / Guinn Batten -- Sonnets, centos and long lines : Muldoon, Paulin, McGuckian and Carson / Shane Murphy -- Performance and dissent : Irish poets in the public sphere / Lucy Collins -- Irish poets and the world / Robert Faggen -- Irish poetry into the twenty-first century / David Wheatley
Summary 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 provides a unique introduction to major figures such as Seamus Heaney, but also introduces the reader to significant precursors like Louis MacNeice or Patrick Kavanagh, and vital contemporaries and successors: among others, Thomas Kinsella, Paul Muldoon and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill. 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, the only book of its kind on the market, 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-284) and index
Notes Mode of access: World Wide Web
Subject English poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
English poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
English poetry -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.
English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
SUBJECT Ireland -- Intellectual life http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104920 -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012478
Ireland -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115504
Ireland -- In literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104923
Genre/Form Ebook
Aufsatzsammlung
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Author Campbell, Matthew (Matthew J. B.)
Cambridge University Press.
LC no. 2002041446
ISBN 0521813018
9780521813013
0521012457
9780521012454
Other Titles Contemporary Irish poetry
OTHER TI Cambridge companions online