Andrews Contemporary Irish Poetry

A Collection of Critical Essays
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-349-80425-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection

Contains 14 essays dealing with the poetry that has come out of Ireland since the mid-1960s. The first half of the book is devoted to general issues and themes, and takes account of the interrelationships of contemporary Irish poetry. The second half concentrates on the work of individual poets.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andrews, Elmer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Borderlands of Irish poetry, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain; myth and modernity in Irish poetry, Richard Kearney; the aesthetic and the territorial, Edna Longley; history and poetry - Derek Mahon and Tom Paulin, Peter McDonald; history and its retrieval in contemporary Northern Irish poetry - Paulin, Montague and others, Patricia Craig; place and displacement - reflections on some recent poetry from Northern Ireland, Seamus Heaney; the landscape of three Irelands - Hewitt, Murphy and Montague, John Wilson Foster; the suburban night - on Evan Boland, Paul Durcan and Thomas McCarthy, Gerald Dawe; the poetry of Thomas Kinsella 1972-1988, Maurice Harmon; rhythm and development in Michael Longley's early poetry, Michael Allen; the poetry of Derek Mahon - places where a thought might grow, Elmer Andrews; the thoughtful songs of James Simmons, A.S. Knowland; the poetry of Medbh McGuckian, Michael Allen; Paul Muldoon - "Who's to Know What's Knowable?", Barbara Buchanan.