Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry
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| Title: | Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry |
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| Description: | The comparative study of the literatures of Ireland and Scotland has emerged as a distinct and buoyant field in recent years. This collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparison of modern Irish and Scottish poetry, featuring close readings of texts within broad historical and political contextualisation. Playing on influences, crossovers, connections, disconnections and differences, the'affinities'and'opposites'traced in this book cross both Irish and Scottish poetry in many directions. Contributors include major scholars of the new'archipelagic'approach, as well as leading Irish and Scottish poets providing important insights into current creative practice. Poets discussed include W. B. Yeats, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, Louis MacNeice, Edwin Morgan, Douglas Dunn, Seamus Heaney, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala ni Dhomhnaill, Don Paterson and Kathleen Jamie. This book is a major contribution to our understanding of poetry from these islands in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. |
| Authors: | Peter Mackay, Edna Longley, Fran Brearton |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | English poetry--Irish authors--History and criticism, English poetry--Scottish authors--History and criticism, English poetry--20th century--History and criticism |
| Categories: | POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | The comparative study of the literatures of Ireland and Scotland has emerged as a distinct and buoyant field in recent years. This collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparison of modern Irish and Scottish poetry, featuring close readings of texts within broad historical and political contextualisation. Playing on influences, crossovers, connections, disconnections and differences, the'affinities'and'opposites'traced in this book cross both Irish and Scottish poetry in many directions. Contributors include major scholars of the new'archipelagic'approach, as well as leading Irish and Scottish poets providing important insights into current creative practice. Poets discussed include W. B. Yeats, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, Louis MacNeice, Edwin Morgan, Douglas Dunn, Seamus Heaney, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala ni Dhomhnaill, Don Paterson and Kathleen Jamie. This book is a major contribution to our understanding of poetry from these islands in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. |
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| ISBN: | 9780521196024 9781139077798 |
