Irish Poetry

Author : Patrick Crotty
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780241387986

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The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry by Patrick Crotty Pdf

The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry features the work of the greatest Irish poets, from the monks of the ancient monasteries to the Nobel laureates W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney, from Jonathan Swift and Oliver Goldsmith to Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, along with a profusion of lyrics, love poems, satires, ballads and songs. Reflecting Ireland's complex past and lively present, this collection of Irish verse is an indispensable guide to the history, culture and romance of one of Europe's oldest civilizations. In his introduction to this new Penguin Classics edition, Patrick Crotty explores the traditions of poetry in Ireland, and relates the rich variety of the poems to the long and frequently troubled history of the island.

Author : Matthew Maguire
Publisher : Everyman's Library POCKET POETS
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : POETRY
ISBN : 1841597864

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Irish Poems by Matthew Maguire Pdf

With its roots in the devotional verse of the early Christian church and the long lyric poems of the Irish bards, Irish poetry has a rich and robust tradition both of engagement and self-reflection. It has grappled long with politics and has provided the most eloquent response to Ireland's turbulent history, mediating and mitigating histories of loyalty and loss; it has soaked itself in the Irish landscape and Celtic myth; it has encompassed religion, so much a part of Ireland's cultural heritage. At the same time Irish poets have given their own original slant to everyday experience and affairs of the heart.Thematically organized and spanning many centuries, this selection also features a section of Gaelic poetry in translation, notably excerpts from the 18th-century epic masterpiece, Brian Merriman's The Midnight Court.

Author : Fran Brearton,Alan Gillis
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191636752

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry by Fran Brearton,Alan Gillis Pdf

Forty chapters, written by leading scholars across the world, describe the latest thinking on modern Irish poetry. The Handbook begins with a consideration of Yeats's early work, and the legacy of the 19th century. The broadly chronological areas which follow, covering the period from the 1910s through to the 21st century, allow scope for coverage of key poetic voices in Ireland in their historical and political context. From the experimentalism of Beckett, MacGreevy, and others of the modernist generation, to the refashioning of Yeats's Ireland on the part of poets such as MacNeice, Kavanagh, and Clarke mid-century, through to the controversially titled post-1969 'Northern Renaissance' of poetry, this volume will provide extensive coverage of the key movements of the modern period. The Handbook covers the work of, among others, Paul Durcan, Thomas Kinsella, Brendan Kennelly, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, and Ciaran Carson. The thematic sections interspersed throughout - chapters on women's poetry, religion, translation, painting, music, stylistics - allow for comparative studies of poets north and south across the century. Central to the guiding spirit of this project is the Handbook's consideration of poetic forms, and a number of essays explore the generic diversity of poetry in Ireland, its various manipulations, reinventions and sometimes repudiations of traditional forms. The last essays in the book examine the work of a 'new' generation of poets from Ireland, concentrating on work published in the last two decades by Justin Quinn, Leontia Flynn, Sinead Morrissey, David Wheatley, Vona Groarke, and others.

Author : Paul Muldoon
Publisher : London ; Boston : Faber and Faber
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 057113761X

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The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry by Paul Muldoon Pdf

Taking the death of Yeats in 1939 as its starting point and ending in the 1980s, The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry offers unusually generous selections from the work of ten writers - Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, Paul Durcan, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian. Edited by Paul Muldoon, himself widely regarded as the leading Irish poet of his generation, this anthology provides a fine introduction to the most consistently impressive Irish poets after Yeats.

Author : Anthony Bradley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0520033892

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Contemporary Irish Poetry by Anthony Bradley Pdf

Author : Robert F. Garratt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520066030

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Modern Irish Poetry by Robert F. Garratt Pdf

Traces the history of twentieth century Irish poetry and examines the Irish literary tradition

Author : Peter Fallon,Derek Mahon
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015018941651

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The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry by Peter Fallon,Derek Mahon Pdf

An anthology of the work of 30 contemporary Irish poets beginning with poets of the 1950s generation. The selection includes poetry from the north of Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s.

Author : Alan Gillis
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199277094

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Irish Poetry of the 1930s by Alan Gillis Pdf

Irish Poetry of the 1930s offers a provocative new take on Irish literary history and modern poetry. It gives detailed and vital readings of the major Irish poets of the period, including exciting new analyses of Samuel Beckett, Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, and W. B. Yeats.

Author : Peggy O'Brien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1930630581

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The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women's Poetry by Peggy O'Brien Pdf

Poetry by Eil an N Chuilleanain, Eavan Boland, Eva Bourke, Medbh McGuckian, Kerry Hardie, Nuala N Dhomhnaill, Mary O'Malley, Rita Ann Higgins, Paula Meehan, Moya Cannon, Katie Donovan, Vona Groarke, Enda Wyley, Sin ad Morrissey, Caitr ona O'Reilly, and Leontia Flynn. Revised, expanded edition, with poetry from 16 contemporary poets: Edited and with a new introduction by Peggy O'Brien

Author : Wes Davis
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39076002891930

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An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry by Wes Davis Pdf

Never before has there been a single-volume anthology of modern Irish poetry so significant and groundbreaking as An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry. Collected here is a comprehensive representation of Irish poetic achievement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from poets such as Austin Clarke and Samuel Beckett who were writing while Yeats and Joyce were still living; to those who came of age in the turbulent âe(tm)60s as sectarian violence escalated, including Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley; to a new generation of Irish writers, represented by such diverse, interesting voices as David Wheatley (born 1970) and Sinéad Morrissey (born 1972).Scholar and editor Wes Davis has chosen work by more than fifty leading modern and contemporary Irish poets. Each poet is represented by a generous number of poems (there are nearly 800 poems in the anthology). The editorâe(tm)s selection includes work by world-renowned poets, including a couple of Nobel Prize winners, as well as work by poets whose careers may be less well known to the general public; by poets writing in English; and by several working in the Irish language (Gaelic selections appear in translation). Accompanying the selections are a general introduction that provides a historical overview, informative short essays on each poet, and helpful notesâe"all prepared by the editor.

Author : Michael Kenneally
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 086140310X

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Poetry in Contemporary Irish Literature by Michael Kenneally Pdf

This is the second of four collections of essays intended to be published under the general title Studies in Contemporary Irish Literature (only two were) which are devoted to critical analysis of Irish writing since the 1950s.

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571262816

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Sweeney Astray by Seamus Heaney Pdf

Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne - the first complete translation since 1913. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at the Battle of Moira. The poetry spoken by the mad king, exiled to the trees and the slopes, is among the richest and most immediately appealing in the whole canon of Gaelic literature. Sweeney Astray not only restores to us a work of historical and literary importance but offers the genius of one of our greatest living poets to reinforce its claims on the reader of contemporary literature.

Author : Irene De Angelis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230355194

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The Japanese Effect in Contemporary Irish Poetry by Irene De Angelis Pdf

The Japanese Effect in Contemporary Irish Poetry provides a stimulating, original and lively analysis of the Irish-Japanese literary connection from the early 1960s to 2007. While for some this may partly remain Oscar Wilde's 'mode of style', this book will show that there is more of Japan in the work of contemporary Irish poets than 'a tinkling of china/ and tea into china.' Drawing on unpublished new sources, Irene De Angelis includes poets from a broad range of cultural backgrounds with richly varied styles: Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Ciaran Carson and Paul Muldoon, together with younger poets such as Sinéad Morrissey and Joseph Woods. Including close readings of selected poems, this is an indispensable companion for all those interested in the broader historical and cultural research on the effect of oriental literature in modernist and postmodernist Irish poetry.

Author : William Butler Yeats
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0486414426

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A Book of Irish Verse by William Butler Yeats Pdf

Features 100 poems from Irish poets of the 18th and 19th centuries ? Goldsmith, Sheridan, Moore, Wilde ? plus important lesser-known writers: James Clarence Mangan, Sir Samuel Ferguson, Aubrey de Vere, many more.

Author : Frank Sewell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191584350

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Modern Irish Poetry: A New Alhambra by Frank Sewell Pdf

Recently, chapters on individual Irish-language authors have formed part of publications regarding modern Irish art and culture in general. Such chapters are welcome but they have excited the curiosity of readers to the degree that longer, more detailed works are now required to put writing in Irish into perspective. In this study of four modern poets (two each from two generations), Sewell attempts to illustrate not only the accumulative but the transformative nature of tradition. Chapters 1 and 2 turn from the mid-20th century master Seán Ó Riordáin to the contemporary poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh because the comparison and contrast highlights significant aspects of the amazing development of Irish poetry and, indeed, society in the period. Here, importantly, the word 'development' is meant in a neutral way - the image used is that of a zig-zag movement in the pattern of the continuing Irish tradition. Chapter 3 returns to the slightly earlier, major Irish-language poet Máirtín Ó Direáin. In doing so, it returns home (from the internationalism of the previous chapter on Searcaigh) to Ireland - a major focus and concern for the more solely traditionalist Ó Direáin. This switch back (in time, geography, social mores or outlook) fits and illustrates Sewell's concept of the zig-zag movement of a country's culture as it proceeds from generation to generation. The positioning, therefore, has a thematic purpose. The fourth and final chapter focuses on the contemporary poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill who has managed to synthesise tradition and modernity (central concerns of this book) and who, in doing so, has become the current trail-blazer of Irish poetry in either language.