{"product_id":"classical-presences-in-irish-poetry-after-1960-the-answering-voice-9783319885674","title":"Classical Presences in Irish Poetry after 1960:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book provides the first overview of classical presences in Anglophone Irish poetry after 1960. Featuring detailed studies of Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, and Eavan Boland, including close readings of key poems, it highlights the evolution of Irish poetic engagements with Greece and Rome in the last sixty years. It outlines the contours of a ‘movement’ which has transformed Irish poetry and accompanied its transition from a postcolonial to a transnational model, from sporadic borrowings of images and myths in the poets’ early attempts to define their own voices, to the multiplication of classical adaptations since the late 1980s -- at first at a time of personal and political crises, notably in Northern Ireland, and more recently, as manifestations of the poets’ engagements with European and other foreign literatures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This monograph offers a fresh and timely look at the classical tradition – and the function of the Classics – in the work of the Irish poets … . The book’s detailed critical exegesis and firm grasp of historical, literary and classical contexts will be of great value to scholars of classical reception and contemporary Irish poetry alike, and I.’s perceptive, often original insights into several of the poems and plays make a meaningful contribution to the field.” (Laura McKenzie, The Classical Review, Vol. 69 (1), April, 2019)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 A Brief Introduction: Rationale and Objectives \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e2 The Classics in Modern Irish Poetry \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3 Seamus Heaney: ‘Lethe in Moyola’ \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e4 Michael Longley: The ‘Lapsed Classicist’ \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e5 Derek Mahon and Eavan Boland: Marginal Perspectives \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e6 A Classical ‘Revival’? \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer International Publishing AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50470737379671,"sku":"9783319885674","price":62.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783319885674.jpg?v=1744899306","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/classical-presences-in-irish-poetry-after-1960-the-answering-voice-9783319885674","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}