This anthology illuminates the history, practice, and wonder of our most elusive art, poetry. Intended for all those who love poetry, including teachers, readers, writers, and students, the book should be valued by those who feel that an understanding of form-sonnet, ballad, villanelle, and sestina would enhance their appreciation of poetry, but ...
In this important prose work, one of our major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work.
The anthology uses example and explanation to demonstrate the excitement and entertainment of various poetic forms, including the sonnet, the ode, the elegy and the pastoral. Included are essays by the editors describing their own personal journeys to a form for their poetic voice. Above all this anthology shows that poetic form is a continuing ...
Meditating on being a woman and a poet in modern Ireland, Eavan Boland recounts her early life in Dublin and London, and her later struggle to find a place and a voice in the heavily male literary culture of Ireland. In prose, she talks about the challenges of speaking honestly and truly in a country where to be a woman (especially a suburban ...
This illuminating anthology of five and a half centuries of the sonnet follows the form through its various moments and makers. The editors, poets themselves, pay particular attention to the way in which the sonnet thrived or waned over the centuries. They also focus on the way in which individual poets claimed these fourteen lines: lengthened ...
An account of the long and eventful career of Ireland's greatest poet, covering his directorship of the Abbey Theatre and period in the Irish Senate, as well as his poetic activities. The authors also analyze the contradictory qualities of Yeats's character.
Continuing her theme of women's history in this collection, Boland presents poems that juxtapose collective history with her own, as she locates her subject matter in a space that is at once both public and private.
This selection of poems by one of Ireland's most prominent feminist poets offers American readers an opportunity to sample her early work, much of it previously unavailable outside of Ireland. Throughout the work presented here, Boland focuses on female ancestry.
Here, from one of our major poets, is the collected early work that has been long unavailable in this country. This collection demonstrates how Eavan Boland's mature voice developed from the poetics of inner exile into a subtle, flexible idiom uniquely her own. Boland received a Lannan Foundation Award in Poetry in 1994.
Irish poet Boland's work, known for its lush images and political stance, is collected here to provide readers with a generous introduction to her work.
What does it mean to be a writer in the context of a country's centuries of uncertainty and upheaval? How does an Irish writer define Irish writing? The writers here, who range from early legends like Yeats to modern masters like Roddy Doyle, address these questions through their sources: the land, the Church, the past, and changing politics and ...
In Transcultural Joyce, a team of leading international scholars assess the afterlife of James Joyce and his writings within a multinational context. How does Joyce haunt the works of later writers in diverse literary traditions? How well does he translate from one culture and language to another? This book consider Joyce's reincarnations in texts ...
In this illuminating, celebratory anthology, two major poets focus on the most classic and enduring of the sonnet's chronological vicissitudes. They pay particular attention to how individual poets - from Shakespeare to Strand - have claimed these fourteen lines: lengthened them, shortened them, elaborated on them and, in turn, been defined by ...
They are nine women with much in common - all German speaking, all poets, all personal witnesses to the horror and devastation that was World War II. Yet, in this deeply moving collection, each provides a singularly personal glimpse into the effects of war on language, place, poetry, and womanhood. "After Every War" is a book of translations of ...
They are nine women with much in common - all German speaking, all poets, all personal witnesses to the horror and devastation that was World War II. Yet, in this deeply moving collection, each provides a singularly personal glimpse into the effects of war on language, place, poetry, and womanhood. "After Every War" is a book of translations of ...
"In this radical anthology, the work of three of Ireland's most important and best-loved contemporary poets is featured. Each has, in a different way, cleared new creative space from which to speak and to sing. The anthology comprises an essential selection of some 40 pages from the work of the poet
A collection of provocative writings on contemporary issues and controversies, by Irish women writers, thinkers and activists including: Eavan Boland, Clodagh Corcoran, Carol Coulter, Gretchen Fitzgerald, Maureen Gaffney, Trudy Hayes, Edna Longley, Gerardine Meaney, Ruth Riddick, Helena Sheehan, Ethna Viney, and Margaret Ward. This is a collection ...
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