Reviews'A beautifully written, immensely knowledgeable and highly readable volume of reflections on 20th century poetry, with an emphasis on the Irish poets Neil Corcoran knows so well and of whom he is a leading expert. Every essay bristles with new apercus, is shapely and penetrating, and has rich and varied ways of engaging with the many poems and poets under ... Read moreconsideration.' Adam Piette 'Whatever the audience for poetry criticism may be today, this is the kind of book it needs: wide-ranging, eloquent, and a model of intellectual responsibility.' David Wheatley 'There is an excellent essay on Yeats’s ‘Among School Children’, which gives an impressive rundown of the history of clashing readings that this most mysterious of poems has provoked.' Adam Hanna, Year's Work in English Studies Show Less