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Oxford Handbook Of Modern Irish Poetry
. Ed(S): Brearton, Fran; Gillis, Alan A.
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Description for Oxford Handbook Of Modern Irish Poetry
Hardback. 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. Editor(s): Brearton, Fran; Gillis, Alan A. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 744 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 253 x 179 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1442.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
744
Condition
New
Series
Oxford Handbooks
Number of Pages
744
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199561247
SKU
V9780199561247
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About . Ed(S): Brearton, Fran; Gillis, Alan A.
Fran Brearton is Reader in English at Queen's University Belfast. Her books include The Great War in Irish Poetry(2000), Reading Michael Longley(2006), and, as co-editor, Modern Irish & Scottish Poetry (2011) and Incorrigibly Plural: Louis MacNeice and His Legacy(2012). Alan Gillis is Lecturer in English at The University of Edinburgh, and editor of Edinburgh Review. His books include ... Read more
Reviews for Oxford Handbook Of Modern Irish Poetry
As a whole, the work offers many astute analyses of poetic form, providing a rich understanding of literary movements in 20th-century Irish poetry... Essential.
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