Tradition and Influence in Anglo-Irish Poetry

✍ Scribed by Terence Brown, Nicholas Grene (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 211
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A collection of essays presenting an "insider" view of the Irish poetic tradition. It brings together some of the best-known poets and critics writing in Ireland today, exploring the multiple traditions and influences within Anglo-Irish poetry from the 19th century to the present.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Constitution, Language and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Irish Poetry....Pages 7-30
Yeats: the Creation of an Audience....Pages 31-46
Yeats and the Re-making of Synge....Pages 47-62
Austin Clarke: Tradition, Memory and Our Lot....Pages 63-78
Louis MacNeice’s Ireland....Pages 79-96
Patrick Kavanagh’s Parish Myth....Pages 97-118
An Absence of Influence: Three Modernist Poets....Pages 119-142
Derek Mahon’s Humane Perspective....Pages 143-152
Poetic Forms and Social Malformations....Pages 153-180
The Placeless Heaven: Another Look at Kavanagh....Pages 181-193
Back Matter....Pages 194-201

✦ Subjects

Poetry and Poetics; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature