The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry (Oxford Handbooks)

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 PART VIII: CULTURAL LANDSCAPES 28. Catholic Art and Culture: Clarke to Heaney 29. In Belfast 30. ‘Our Lost Lives’: Protestantism and Northern Irish Poetry 31. Walking Dublin: Contemporary Irish Poets in the City PART IX: THE POET AS CRITIC 32. The Irish Poet as Critic 33. The Poet as Anthologist 34. Irish Poetry and the News PART X: ON POETIC FORM 35. The Modern Irish Sonnet 36. Irish Elegy After Yeats 37. ‘Repeat the changes change the repeats’: Alternative Irish Poetry 38. ‘ The nothing-could-be-simpler line’: Form in Contemporary Irish Poetry PART XI: ON RECENT POETRY 39. New Irish Women Poets: The Evolution of (In)determinacy in Vona Groarke 40. ‘A potted peace/lily’? Northern Irish Poetry Since the Ceasefires Select Bibliography Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z "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"--Publisher's website.

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.

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. Describes the latest thinking on modern Irish poetry, beginning with a consideration of W.B. Yeats's early work and the legacy of the nineteenth century. The broadly chronological areas that follow, covering the period from the 1910s through to the twenty-first century, allow scope for coverage of key poetic voices in Ireland in their historical and political context. From the experimentalism of Samuel Beckett, Thomas MacGreevy, and others of the modernist generation, to the refashioning of Yeats's Ireland on the part of poets such as Louis MacNeice, Patrick Kavanagh, and Austin Clarke mid-century, through to the controversially titled post-1969 'Northern Renaissance' of poetry, the book provides extensive coverage of the key movements of the modern period. It 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 book's analysis of poetic forms as well as the generic diversity of poetry in Ireland, its various manipulations, reinventions, and sometimes repudiations of traditional forms. It also looks at the work of a 'new' generation of poets from Ireland, concentrating on work published in the last two decade