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Irish Poetry

Name: Irish Poetry
Brand: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780814756287
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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780814756287

An Interpretive Anthology from Before Swift to Yeats and After

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Edited by W. J. McCormack
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: March 1, 2000
Format: HARDBACK
Pages: 355

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In this interpretative anthology of Irish verse, the author traces through several centuries of creativity and contradiction, which finds poets productively at odds with their forebears, their contemporaries and even with themselves. Swift's self-lacerating savagery sets the tone, yet this tradition of ferocity also includes Gaelic poets like Daithi O Brudair and Anglophone voices like James Clarence Mangan. Women poets, from Esther Johnson to Medbh McGuckian, are in some ways the most representative voices of all in this tradition of outsidership. The book brings together Irish poetry to reveal a broad yet sharply-focused tradition of diversity and dissidence.

W.J. McCormack is Professor of Literary History at the University of London and head of the English Department at Goldsmith's College.

"McCormack's painstaking selection does justice to the panoply of Irish poets [and] does indeed reflect a national history, messy and complex, strident and joyful in the most tragic of circumstances." -Kirkus Reviews "Dr. McCormack's anthology is must reading for anyone who delights in the imaginative mind of the poet." -Council on National Literatures

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