| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 219 pages) |
| Series |
The new antiquity
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New antiquity.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. A Brief Introduction: Rationale and Objectives -- 2. The Classics in Modern Irish Poetry -- 3. Seamus Heaney:?Lethe in Moyola? -- 4. Michael Longley: The?Lapsed Classicist? -- 5. Derek Mahon and Eavan Boland: Marginal Perspectives -- 6. A Classical?Revival?? -- Further Reading. |
| Summary |
This book provides the first overview of classical presences in Anglophone Irish poetry after 1960. Featuring detailed studies of Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, and Eavan Boland, including close readings of key poems, it highlights the evolution of Irish poetic engagements with Greece and Rome in the last sixty years. It outlines the contours of a?movement? which has transformed Irish poetry and accompanied its transition from a postcolonial to a transnational model, from sporadic borrowings of images and myths in the poets? early attempts to define their own voices, to the multiplication of classical adaptations since the late 1980s -- at first at a time of personal and political crises, notably in Northern Ireland, and more recently, as manifestations of the poets? engagements with European and other foreign literatures. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Irish poetry -- Foreign influences.
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Irish poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Irish poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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Irish poetry -- Classical influences.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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Irish poetry |
| Chronological Term |
1900-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Impens, Florence. Classical presences in Irish poetry after 1960. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 9783319682303 331968230X (OCoLC)1002128014 |
| ISBN |
9783319682310 (electronic bk.) |
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3319682318 (electronic bk.) |
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9783319682303 |
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331968230X |
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