Irish poetry : an interpretive anthology from before Swift to Yeats and after / W.J. McCormack.
"In this avowedly interpretive anthology of Irish verse, W. J. Mc Cormack traces through several centuries a creativity of contradiction, which finds poets productively at odds with their forebears, their contemporaries - even with themselves." "This new anthology brings together the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York, NY : New York University Press, 2000. |
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| Summary: | "In this avowedly interpretive anthology of Irish verse, W. J. Mc Cormack traces through several centuries a creativity of contradiction, which finds poets productively at odds with their forebears, their contemporaries - even with themselves." "This new anthology brings together the best in Irish poetry to reveal a broad yet sharply focused tradition of diversity and dissidence. No inert golden treasury, W. J. Mc Cormack's compelling collection will provoke a wide-ranging reconsideration of one of the world's richest literatures."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: Ferocious humanism. London : J.M. Dent, c1998. Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | xxvi, 355 pages ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 081475628X (alk. paper) |
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