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Tradition and Influence in Anglo-Irish Poetry

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Terence Brown

    1. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

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  2. Nicholas Grene

    1. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Terence Brown, Nicholas Grene
    Pages 1-6

  3. Constitution, Language and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Irish Poetry

    • Robert Welch
    Pages 7-30

  4. Yeats: the Creation of an Audience

    • Seamus Deane
    Pages 31-46

  5. Yeats and the Re-making of Synge

    • Nicholas Grene
    Pages 47-62

  6. Austin Clarke: Tradition, Memory and Our Lot

    • Peter Denman
    Pages 63-78

  7. Louis MacNeice’s Ireland

    • Terence Brown
    Pages 79-96

  8. Patrick Kavanagh’s Parish Myth

    • Antoinette Quinn
    Pages 97-118

  9. An Absence of Influence: Three Modernist Poets

    • Gerald Dawe
    Pages 119-142

  10. Derek Mahon’s Humane Perspective

    • Brendan Kennelly
    Pages 143-152

  11. Poetic Forms and Social Malformations

    • Edna Longley
    Pages 153-180

  12. The Placeless Heaven: Another Look at Kavanagh

    • Seamus Heaney
    Pages 181-193

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 194-201
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A collection of essays presenting an "insider" view of the Irish poetic tradition. It brings together some of the best-known poets and critics writing in Ireland today, exploring the multiple traditions and influences within Anglo-Irish poetry from the 19th century to the present.

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  • Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

    Terence Brown, Nicholas Grene

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