Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Ireland in poetry
- 2 From Irish mode to modernisation
- 3 Patrick Kavanagh and antipastoral
- 4 Louis MacNeice
- 5 The Irish modernists and their legacy
- 6 Poetry of the 1960s
- 7 Violence in Seamus Heaney's poetry
- 8 Mahon and Longley
- 9 Between two languages
- 10 Boland, McGuckian, Ni Chuilleanain and the body of the nation
- 11 Sonnets, centos and long lines
- 12 Performance and dissent
- 13 Irish poets and the world
- 14 Irish poetry into the twenty-first century
- Further reading
- Index
- Series List
13 - Irish poets and the world
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2006
- Frontmatter
- 1 Ireland in poetry
- 2 From Irish mode to modernisation
- 3 Patrick Kavanagh and antipastoral
- 4 Louis MacNeice
- 5 The Irish modernists and their legacy
- 6 Poetry of the 1960s
- 7 Violence in Seamus Heaney's poetry
- 8 Mahon and Longley
- 9 Between two languages
- 10 Boland, McGuckian, Ni Chuilleanain and the body of the nation
- 11 Sonnets, centos and long lines
- 12 Performance and dissent
- 13 Irish poets and the world
- 14 Irish poetry into the twenty-first century
- Further reading
- Index
- Series List
Summary
The global reputation of the Irish poetry world can be attributed to many things including, at the risk of sounding too uncritical, its great variety and quality. The sociology and politics of the reception of Irish poetry, particularly in the United States, has been the subject of various levels of critical speculation. Critics have mapped the influences of the literatures of many nations on a range of contemporary Irish poets. This chapter will explore the ways some contemporary Irish poets have reached beyond Ireland to imagine and define their poetic practice. Irish poets have been greatly interested in the achievements of American, Eastern European, French and Greek poets, from Dickinson, Whitman, Williams, Frost and Lowell to Herbert, Milosz and Mandelstam, to Nerval, Cavafy and Seferis. The hold these writers and others have for a number of contemporary Irish poets - Boland, Heaney, Mahon, Kinsella, Muldoon - springs from a desire to establish human identity out of the tensions, debates and violence about national traditions and national identity.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry , pp. 229 - 249Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003
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