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- Irish Literature in Transition, 1880–1940
- Irish Literature In Transition
- Irish Literature in Transition, 1880–1940
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- General Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Revisionary Foundations
- Part II Revolutionary Forms
- Part III Major Figures in Transition
- Part IV Aftermaths and Outcomes
- Chapter 15 Re-imagining Realism in Post-Independence Irish Writing
- Chapter 16 The Free State of Poetry
- Chapter 17 Live Wires and Dead Noise: Revolutionary Communications
- Chapter 18 The Dead, the Undead, and the Half-Alive: The Transition from Narrative Plot to Formal Trope in Late Modern Irish Writing
- Part V Frameworks in Transition
- Index
Chapter 16 - The Free State of Poetry
from Part IV - Aftermaths and Outcomes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2020
- Irish Literature in Transition, 1880–1940
- Irish Literature In Transition
- Irish Literature in Transition, 1880–1940
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- General Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Revisionary Foundations
- Part II Revolutionary Forms
- Part III Major Figures in Transition
- Part IV Aftermaths and Outcomes
- Chapter 15 Re-imagining Realism in Post-Independence Irish Writing
- Chapter 16 The Free State of Poetry
- Chapter 17 Live Wires and Dead Noise: Revolutionary Communications
- Chapter 18 The Dead, the Undead, and the Half-Alive: The Transition from Narrative Plot to Formal Trope in Late Modern Irish Writing
- Part V Frameworks in Transition
- Index
Summary
Writers living in Ireland after 1922 were profoundly affected by the violent transition that marked the foundation of the state, and a preoccupation with conditions of self-division can be traced in texts from the ensuing decades. For many poets working in this period, integration within the new state was not a straightforward process: civil war legacies were alienating for those who had adopted an anti-treaty stance, and opportunities for publication were curtailed by the political and economic climate. For poets born outside Ireland, as well as for those who had spent significant time abroad, the Irish Free State’s increasing remoteness from Europe was both personally and artistically challenging.
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- Irish Literature in Transition, 1880–1940 , pp. 285 - 301Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020