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Zusatztext As a whole, the work offers many astute analyses of poetic form, providing a rich understanding of literary movements in 20th-century Irish poetry... Essential. Informationen zum Autor Fran Brearton is Reader in English at Queen's University Belfast. Her books include The Great War in Irish Poetry(2000), Reading Michael Longley(2006), and, as co-editor, Modern Irish & Scottish Poetry (2011) and Incorrigibly Plural: Louis MacNeice and His Legacy(2012).Alan Gillis is Lecturer in English at The University of Edinburgh, and editor of Edinburgh Review. His books include Irish Poetry of the 1930s(2005) and, as co-editor, The Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature (2010), as well as three collections of poetry: Here Comes the Night(2010), Hawks and Doves (2007) and Somebody, Somewhere(2004) Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I: POETRY AND THE REVIVAL 1: Matthew Campbell: Recovering Ancient Ireland 2: Warwick Gould: Yeats and Symbolism 3: Michael O'Neill: Yeats, Clarke, and The Irish Poet's Relationship with English PART II: THE POETRY OF WAR 4: Jim Haughey: 'The Roses are Torn': Ireland's War Poets 5: Gerald Dawe: 'Pledged to Ireland': The Poets and Poems of Easter 1916 6: Edna Longley: W. B. Yeats: Poetry and Violence PART III: MODERNISM AND TRADITIONALISM 7: Edward Larrissy: Yeats, Eliot, and the Idea of Tradition 8: Susan Schriebman: Irish Poetic Modernism: Portrait of the Artist in Exile 9: David Wheatley: Samuel Beckett: Exile and Experiment 10: Dillon Johnston: Voice and Voiceprints: Joyce and Recent Irish Poetry PART IV: MID-CENTURY IRISH POETRY 11: Kit Fryatt: Patrick Kavanagh's 'Potentialities' 12: Thomas Walker: MacNeice Among His Contemporaries: 1939 and 1941 13: Richard Kirkland: The Poetics of Partition: Poetry and Northern Ireland in the 1940s 14: John McAuliffe: Disturbing Irish Poetry: Kinsella and Clarke 1951-1962 15: Jonathan Allison: Memory and Starlight in Late MacNeice PART V: POETRY and THE ARTS 16: Neil Corcoran: Modern Irish Poetry and the Visual Arts: Yeats to Heaney 17: Damien Keane: Poetry, Music, and Reproduced Sound 18: Rui Carvalho Homem: 'Private Relations': Selves, Poems, and Paintings Durcan to Morrissey 19: Peter Mackay: Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry and Romanticism PART VI: ON THE BORDERS: A FURTHER LOOK AT THE LANGUAGE QUESTION 20: Aodán Mac Póilin: 'Ghosts of Metrical Procedures': Translations from the Irish 21: Eric Falci: Translation as Collaboration: Ní Dhomhnaill and Muldoon 22: Justin Quinn: Incoming: Irish Poetry and Translation 23: Paul Simpson: A Stylistic Analysis of Modern Irish Poetry PART VII: POETRY and POLITICS: 1970S and 1980S 24: Heather Clark: Befitting Emblems: The Early 1970s 25: Shane Alcobia-Murphy: 'Neurosis of Sand': Authority, Memory, and the Hunger Strike 26: John Redmond: Engagements with the Public Sphere in the Poetry of Paul Durcan and Brendan Kennelly 27: Leontia Flynn: Domestic Violences: Medbh McGuckian and Irish Women s Writing in the 1980s PART VIII: CULTURAL LANDSCAPES 28: Gail McConnell: Catholic Art and Culture: Clarke to Heaney 29: Elmer Kennedy-Andrews: In Belfast 30: Peter McDonald: 'Our Lost Lives': Protestantism and Northern Irish Poetry 31: ...
