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Oxford University Press USA - OSO, Oxford
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry consists of 40 essays by leading scholars and new researchers in the field. Beginning with W.B.Yeats, the figure who towers over the century's poetry, it includes chapters on the major poets to have emerged...
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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry consists of 40 essays by leading scholars and new researchers in the field. Beginning with W.B.Yeats, the figure who towers over the century's poetry, it includes chapters on the major poets to have emerged in Ireland over the last 100 years. Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- PART I: POETRY AND THE REVIVAL -- 1. Recovering Ancient Ireland -- 2. Yeats and Symbolism -- 3. Yeats, Clarke, and the Irish Poet's Relationship with English -- PART II: THE POETRY OF WAR -- 4. ' The Roses are Torn': Ireland's War Poets -- 5. 'Pledged to Ireland': The Poets and Poems of Easter 1916 -- 6. W. B. Yeats: Poetry and Violence -- PART III: MODERNISM AND TRADITIONALISM -- 7. Yeats, Eliot, and the Idea of Tradition -- 8. Irish Poetic Modernism: Portrait of the Artist in Exile -- 9. Samuel Beckett: Exile and Experiment -- 10. Voice and Voiceprints: Joyce and Recent Irish Poetry -- PART IV: MID-CENTURY IRISH POETRY -- 11. Patrick Kavanagh's 'Potentialities' -- 12. MacNeice Among His Irish Contemporaries: 1939 and 1945 -- 13. The Poetics of Partition: Poetry and Northern Ireland in the 1940s -- 14. Disturbing Irish Poetry: Kinsella and Clarke, 1951-1962 -- 15. Memory and Starlight in Late MacNeice -- PART V: POETRY AND THE ARTS -- 16. Modern Irish Poetry and the Visual Arts: Yeats to Heaney -- 17. Poetry, Music, and Reproduced Sound -- 18. 'Private Relations': Selves, Poems, and Paintings-Durcan to Morrissey -- 19. Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry and Romanticism -- PART VI: ON THE BORDERS: A FURTHER LOOK AT THE LANGUAGE QUESTION -- 20. 'Ghosts of metrical procedures': Translations from the Irish -- 21. Translation as Collaboration: Ní Dhomhnaill and Muldoon -- 22. Incoming: Irish Poetry and Translation -- 23. A Stylistic Analysis of Modern Irish Poetry -- PART VII: POETRY AND POLITICS: THE 1970s AND 1980s -- 24. Befitting Emblems: The Early 1970s -- 25. 'Neurosis of Sand': Authority, Memory, and the Hunger Strike -- 26. Engagements with the Public Sphere in the Poetry of Paul Durcan and Brendan Kennelly -- 27. Domestic Violences: Medbh McGuckian and Irish Women's Writing in the 1980s.
