Classical Presences in Irish Poetry after 1960

The Answering Voice
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-68230-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 219 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 418 g

Reihe: The New Antiquity

Invites scholars to reappraise the ways in which the dynamics of the contemporary Irish poetic scene have often been read
Places close readings of key poems within the broader context of the poets’ careers

Draws attention to lesser-known creative engagements with Greek and Latin literatures in its study of Eavan Boland and Derek Mahon

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Impens, Florence

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Irische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. A Brief Introduction: Rationale and Objectives.- 2. The Classics in Modern Irish Poetry.- 3. Seamus Heaney: ‘Lethe in Moyola’.- 4. Michael Longley: The ‘Lapsed Classicist’.- 5. Derek Mahon and Eavan Boland: Marginal Perspectives.- 6. A Classical ‘Revival’?.- Further Reading.

Über Autor(innen)

Florence Impens is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. She has previously lived, studied, and worked in France, Ireland, and the United States. Her research interests include Irish Studies, contemporary poetry in English, and reception studies.