The poetic economies of England and Ireland : 1912-2000

Although modern English and Irish poetry arises from the different cultures, the poets themselves have shared, throughout this century, the same editors and publishers, competed for the same prizes and been judged, ostensibly, by the same standards. This book examines contexts for these exchanges over four decades, tracing the lineage of Yeats and Hardy from their meeting in 1912 through WWI, the 30s, the 60s, and the 90s, to see what influences and ideas are exchanged and how poetic value accrues. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Preface......Page 12 List of Abbreviations......Page 19 1912: a June meeting in Dorchester......Page 22 Hardy's relation to audience......Page 26 Translations from the English and Irish past......Page 38 Yeats's relation to audience......Page 42 The changing relation of audience to Yeats and Hardy......Page 44 Henry Newbolt's report......Page 49 Yeats's and Burke's oaks......Page 53 Arnold and Yeats......Page 60 Joyce's response to Arnold's benign colonialism......Page 64 Wilde's strategies and Yeats's responses to Arnold's stereotypes......Page 68 Shy trafficking: Yeats's and Arnold's poetic economies......Page 74 Irish bards, Scots publishers, and English editors......Page 83 The course of culture from 1921......Page 85 The emergence of Auden......Page 96 Homosexuality and Auden's sexual identity......Page 103 Yeats, Wilde, and Auden: queer and colonial margins......Page 107 Quest or banishment? Critics 'role in Auden's emigration......Page 111 Auden: poetry and questions of value......Page 117 Auden and Yeats......Page 129 MacNeice's intermediate eccentricity......Page 133 Some poetic traffic in the 1930s......Page 142 Clarke and the Dolmen Press......Page 149 Kinsella and the Dolmen bond......Page 150 Montague's publishers in the 1960s and his British readership......Page 157 'It could only happen in England': Larkin, Betjeman, and Eliot......Page 168 Hill and Larkin......Page 177 Hughes and the Celtic exchange......Page 182 The trenches, the Holocaust, and the bomb in the 1960s......Page 187 5 Toward the Present of English and Irish Poetry......Page 190 Translation and recent Irish poetry......Page 191 Muldoon's 'imarrhage' and 'pied' writing......Page 197 Údar: the authority of the absent in Irish poetry......Page 200 The body in Irish and English poetry......Page 207 Hughes and Heaney: laureate prose......Page 214 Recent poetry and publishing in England and Ireland......Page 222 Heaney and English poetry: a postscript......Page 227 Notes......Page 230 Works Cited......Page 246 A......Page 257 B......Page 258 C......Page 259 F......Page 260 H......Page 261 J......Page 263 L......Page 264 M......Page 265 N......Page 267 O......Page 268 R......Page 269 T......Page 270 W......Page 271 Y......Page 272 Although modern English and Irish poetry arises from the different cultures of the two countries these poets have shared - throughout this century - the same editors and publishers, competed for the same prizes, and been judged, ostensibly, by the same standards. This book examines contexts for these exchanges over four decades - tracing the lineages of Yeats and Hardy from their meeting in 1912 through WWI, the 30s, the 60s, and the 90s, - to see what influences and ideas are exchanged and how poetic value accrues.