The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry, 1800–2000

by Justin Quinn

• ISBN13: 9780521609258
• ISBN10: 0521609259
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-07
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Over the last two centuries, Ireland has produced some of the worlds most outstanding and best-loved poets, from Thomas Moore to W. B. Yeats to Seamus Heaney. 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. Justin Quinn argues that the language issues of Irish poetry have been misconceived and re-examines the divide between Gaelic and Anglophone poetry. Quinn suggests an alternative to both nationalist and revisionist interpretations and fundamentally challenges existing ideas of Irish poetry. This lucid book offers a rich contextual background against which to read the individual works, and pays close attention to the major poems and poets. Readers and students of Irish poetry will learn much from Quinn's sharp and critically acute account.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The appearance of Ireland

Tennysons Ireland

Revival

Wild earth

The ends of modernism

Irelands empire

Seamus Heaney

Irsko po polsku: poetry and translation

Feminism and Irish poetry

Out of Ireland: Muldoon and other emigris

The disappearance of Ireland

Guide to further reading

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