Irish Poetry: Politics, History, Negotiation

The Evolving Debate, 1969 to the Present

S. Matthews (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

249 Seiten

1997
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-64336-5 (ISBN)

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The award of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature to Seamus Heaney recognized not only the aesthetic achievement of his work, but also its political urgency. Here Steven Matthews presents a genealogy of Irish poetry which centres upon Heaney's recent preoccupation with the relations between poetry, politics and history. Writing from the perspective of Irish critical responses to the poetry, he discusses a wide range of work from John Hewitt through Heaney himself to Paul Muldoon. All of these poets have been inspired directly or indirectly by the situation in the North of Ireland. Placing the poems in their historical context, the author also analyses how these poets have reacted to the influence of W.B. Yeats. This important book offers a new approach to Irish poetry, linking it for the first time to the crucial political and historical events which lie at its centre.

Acknowledgements - Introduction: Making History? - John Hewitt: An Honest Ulsterman's 'Poemosaics' - Thomas Kinsella's Poetic of Unease - A Failure to Return: John Montague's The Rough Field - History is Only Part of It: Brendan Kennelly's Cromwell - 'Reconciliation under Duress': The Architecture of Seamus Heaney's Recent Poetry - Letters from the Alphabet: Carson's and Muldoon's Contingent Poetics - Select Bibliography - Notes - Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.1.1997
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 249 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-333-64336-4 / 0333643364
ISBN-13	978-0-333-64336-5 / 9780333643365
Zustand	Neuware