Irish Poetry of the 1930s

Irish Poetry of the 1930s
Author: Alan Gillis
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2005-06-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0191535001

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The 1930s have never really been considered an epoch within Irish literature, even though the Thirties form one of the most dominant and fascinating contexts in modern British literature. This book argues that during this time Irish poets faced up to political pressures and aesthetic dilemmas which frequently overlapped with those associated with 'The Auden Generation'. In so doing, it offers a provocative intercession into Irish history. But more than this, it offers powerful arguments about the way poetry in general is interpreted and understood. In this way, Gillis seeks to redefine our understanding of a frequently neglected period and to challenge received notions of both Irish literature and poetic modernism. Irish Poetry of the 1930s gives detailed and vital readings of the major Irish poets of the decade, including original and exciting analyses of Samuel Beckett, Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, and W. B. Yeats.

Modernism and Ireland

Modernism and Ireland
Author: Patricia Coughlan
Publisher: Cork University Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 1995
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781859180617

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An incisively argued collection of essays which sets out to look afresh at the landscape of Irish poetry in the 1930s.

Irish Poetry of the 1930s

Irish Poetry of the 1930s
Author: Alan A. Gillis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2005
Genre:
ISBN:

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"The 1930s have never really been considered as an epoch within Irish literature, even though the Thirties form one of the most dominant and fascinating contexts in modern British literature. Alan Gillis shows that during this time Irish poets confronted political pressures and aesthetic dilemmas which frequently overlapped with those faced by 'The Auden Generation'. In doing so, he not only offers a provocative rereading of Irish history, but also advances powerful arguments about the way poetry is interpreted and understood." "Gillis redefines our understanding of a frequently neglected period and challenges received notions of both Irish literature and poetic modernism. Irish Poetry of the 1930s gives detailed and vital readings of the major poets of the decade, including original and exciting analyses of Samuel Beckett, Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, and W.B. Yeats."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Irish Poetry of the 1930s

Irish Poetry of the 1930s
Author: Alan Gillis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2005-06-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199277095

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Irish Poetry of the 1930s offers a provocative new take on Irish literary history and modern poetry. It gives detailed and vital readings of the major Irish poets of the period, including exciting new analyses of Samuel Beckett, Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, and W. B. Yeats.

Irish Poetry of the 1930s

Irish Poetry of the 1930s
Author: Alan A. Gillis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2005
Genre: English poetry
ISBN: 9780191707483

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Offering a provocative new take on Irish literary history and modern poetry, this text gives detailed and vital readings of the major Irish poets of the period, including exciting new analyses of Samuel Beckett, Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice and W.B. Yeats

Louis MacNeice and the Poetry of the 1930s

Louis MacNeice and the Poetry of the 1930s
Author: Richard Danson Brown
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2009
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0746311850

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This study investigates Louis MacNeice in two major central strands, exploring MacNeice's ambiguous positioning as an Irish poet and the self-consciousness in his writing.

Irish Writers and the Thirties

Irish Writers and the Thirties
Author: Katrina Goldstone
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2020-12-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000291014

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This original study focusing on four Irish writers – Leslie Daiken, Charles Donnelly, Ewart Milne and Michael Sayers – retrieves a hitherto neglected episode of Thirties literary history which highlights the local and global aspects of Popular Front cultural movements. From interwar London to the Spanish Civil War and the USSR, the book examines the lives and work of Irish writers through their writings, their witness texts and their political activism. The relationships of these writers to George Orwell, Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Nancy Cunard, William Carlos Williams and other figures of cultural significance within the interwar period sheds new light on the internationalist aspects of a Leftist cultural history. The book also explores how Irish literary women on the Left defied marginalization. The impetus of the book is not merely to perform an act of literary salvage but to find new ways of re-imagining what might be said to constitute Irish literature mid-twentieth century; and to illustrate how Irish writers played a role in a transforming political moment of the twentieth century. It will be of interest to scholars and students of cultural history and literature, Irish diaspora studies, Jewish studies, and the social and literary history of the Thirties.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry
Author: Fran Brearton
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 743
Release: 2012-10-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0191636754

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Forty chapters, written by leading scholars across the world, describe the latest thinking on modern Irish poetry. The Handbook begins with a consideration of Yeats's early work, and the legacy of the 19th century. The broadly chronological areas which follow, covering the period from the 1910s through to the 21st century, allow scope for coverage of key poetic voices in Ireland in their historical and political context. From the experimentalism of Beckett, MacGreevy, and others of the modernist generation, to the refashioning of Yeats's Ireland on the part of poets such as MacNeice, Kavanagh, and Clarke mid-century, through to the controversially titled post-1969 'Northern Renaissance' of poetry, this volume will provide extensive coverage of the key movements of the modern period. The Handbook covers the work of, among others, Paul Durcan, Thomas Kinsella, Brendan Kennelly, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, and Ciaran Carson. The thematic sections interspersed throughout - chapters on women's poetry, religion, translation, painting, music, stylistics - allow for comparative studies of poets north and south across the century. Central to the guiding spirit of this project is the Handbook's consideration of poetic forms, and a number of essays explore the generic diversity of poetry in Ireland, its various manipulations, reinventions and sometimes repudiations of traditional forms. The last essays in the book examine the work of a 'new' generation of poets from Ireland, concentrating on work published in the last two decades by Justin Quinn, Leontia Flynn, Sinead Morrissey, David Wheatley, Vona Groarke, and others.

The Renaissance of Irish Poetry

The Renaissance of Irish Poetry
Author: David Morton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1929
Genre: English poetry
ISBN:

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Awakening Constellations

Awakening Constellations
Author: ALan A. Gillis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2001
Genre:
ISBN:

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