Poetry by Women in Ireland: A Critical Anthology 1870-1970Lucy Collins This unique anthology of poetry written by women in Ireland 1870-1970 includes more than one hundred and eighty poems by fifteen women of diverse backgrounds, experiences and creative aims. Challenging the assumption that little poetry of note was written by women during the period, this rich and original collection reveals the range of their achievement and the lasting value of their work. Some of these women were prolific writers in many genres, others wrote poetry for a brief period only: all produced imaginative and memorable work that sheds new light both on the lives of women and on the development of poetry in Ireland from the late nineteenth century onward. The poetry in this anthology reflects the political and social crosscurrents of the timethe divided loyalties, spiritual questioning and intellectual curiosity that shaped these womens lives. There are personal concerns too, and a desire to combine the expression of feeling with attention to the craft of poetry itself. Some of these voice |
Contents
A Note on the Texts | 54 |
Never Forsake the Ship | 60 |
From The Political and National Poems of Finola 1877 | 66 |
From VerseTales Lyrics and Translations 1891 | 74 |
A Choice | 79 |
From Innocencies 1905 | 85 |
From Evensong 1922 | 93 |
Dora Sigerson Shorter 186618931918 | 102 |
Letts 188119131972 | 176 |
From Halloween and Poems of the War 1916 | 182 |
From More Songs from Leinster 1926 | 190 |
Mary Devenport ONeill 187919291967 | 200 |
Uncollected Poems | 207 |
From the engine is left running 1937 | 215 |
Sheila Wingfield 190619381992 | 222 |
From A Cloud Across the Sun 1949 | 229 |
From Collected Poems 1907 | 108 |
Poems of the Revolution 1922 | 117 |
Eva GoreBooth 187018981926 | 118 |
From The Egyptian Pillar 1907 | 125 |
Emily Lawless 184519021913 | 131 |
Mitchell 186619061926 | 147 |
From Aids to the Immortality of Certain Persons in Ireland | 153 |
From Poems 1954 | 164 |
Freda Laughton 19071945? | 237 |
Rhoda Coghill 190319482000 | 248 |
From Time is a Squirrel 1956 | 258 |
Chronology | 267 |
Select Bibliography | 282 |
71 | 291 |
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