The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish PoetryMatthew Campbell In the last fifty years Irish poets have produced some of the most exciting poetry in contemporary literature, writing about love and sexuality, violence and history, country and city. This book provides a unique introduction to major figures such as Seamus Heaney, but also introduces the reader to significant precursors like Louis MacNeice or Patrick Kavanagh, and vital contemporaries and successors: among others, Thomas Kinsella, Paul Muldoon and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill. Readers will find discussions of Irish poetry from the traditional to the modernist, written in Irish as well as English, from both North and South. This Companion, the only book of its kind on the market, provides cultural and historical background to contemporary Irish poetry in the contexts of modern Ireland but also in the broad currents of modern world literature. It includes a chronology and guide to further reading and will prove invaluable to students and teachers alike. |
Contents
Ireland in poetry 1999 1949 1969 | 1 |
From Irish mode to modernisation the poetry of Austin Clarke | 21 |
Patrick Kavanagh and antipastoral | 42 |
Louis MacNeice irony and responsibility | 59 |
The Irish modernists and their legacy | 76 |
Poetry of the 1960s the Northern Ireland Renaissance | 94 |
Violence in Seamus Heaneys poetry | 113 |
Mahon and Longley place and placelessness | 133 |
Boland McGuckian Ni Chuilleanain and the body of the nation | 169 |
Sonnets centos and long lines Muldoon Paulin McGuckian and Carson | 189 |
Performance and dissent Irish poets in the public sphere | 209 |
Irish poets and the world | 229 |
Irish poetry into the twentyfirst century | 250 |
Further Reading | 268 |
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Between two languages poetry in Irish English and Irish English | 149 |
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