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This introduction not only provides an essential overview of the history and development of poetry in Ireland, but also offers new approaches to aspects of the field. Readers and students of Irish poetry will learn much from Quinn's sharp and critically acute account.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The appearance of Ireland; 2. Tennyson's Ireland; 3. Revival; 4. W. B. Yeats; 5. Wild earth; 6. The ends of modernism; 7. Ireland's empire; 8. Seamus Heaney; 9. Irsko po polsku: poetry and translation; 10. Feminism and Irish poetry; 11. Out of Ireland: Muldoon and other emigrés; 12. The disappearance of Ireland; Guide to further reading.

The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 4/17/2008 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780521609258, 978-0521609258
      ISBN10: 0521609259
      Also in:
      Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This introduction not only provides an essential overview of the history and development of poetry in Ireland, but also offers new approaches to aspects of the field. Readers and students of Irish poetry will learn much from Quinn's sharp and critically acute account.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The appearance of Ireland; 2. Tennyson's Ireland; 3. Revival; 4. W. B. Yeats; 5. Wild earth; 6. The ends of modernism; 7. Ireland's empire; 8. Seamus Heaney; 9. Irsko po polsku: poetry and translation; 10. Feminism and Irish poetry; 11. Out of Ireland: Muldoon and other emigrés; 12. The disappearance of Ireland; Guide to further reading.

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