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Verse in English from Tudor and Stuart Ireland (Hardcover)
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In the same way that Andrew Carpenter's 1998 anthology "Verse in
English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland" changed our perception of
Irish writing in English from that period, so this companion volume
"Verse in English from Tudor and Stuart Ireland" explodes the myth
that no English verse of value has survived from sixteenth- or
seventeenth-century Ireland. As this exciting and original
anthology shows, hundreds of poets were active in Ireland at the
time. The work of a few of them -- Edmund Spenser and the young
Jonathan Swift in particular - is well-known today: but almost
everything else in this anthology -- taken from manuscripts or from
the original printings -- appears here for the first time in over
three hundred years. The poets who wrote these verses, otherwise
unknown men and women from the worlds of the Old English and native
Irish, or visitors or settlers newly arrived from England, emerge
from the pages of this book as sardonic observers of the dangerous
times in which they lived, and as writers of originality, freshness
and, sometimes, of wit and ingenuity. There is astonishing variety
of material in the 200 poems gathered here -- love songs, ballads,
verse letters, laments, death-bed repentances, elegies, political
lampoons and theological speculations. There are verses from
well-bred coteries in Dublin Castle and verses scratched on
gateposts; there are hymns and curses, echoes and allegories,
prayers and squibs; there are coarse poems, gentle poems, angry
poems and mad poems. The book proves triumphantly that, from the
beginning of the Tudor period until the Battle of the Boyne, verse
in English was written, read and recited wherever English-speakers
were to be found inIreland. "Verse in English from Tudor and Stuart
Ireland" is not only a major contribution to Irish cultural
history, but a book which introduces to modern readers a memorable
range of original and unjustly neglected Irish poetic voices.
General
Imprint: |
Cork University Press
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Country of origin: |
Ireland |
Release date: |
October 2003 |
First published: |
December 2003 |
Authors: |
Andrew Carpenter
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Dimensions: |
216 x 134 x 40mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
624 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-85918-354-0 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-85918-354-9 |
Barcode: |
9781859183540 |
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