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Irish Poetry Since 1950 - From Stillness into History (Paperback)
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Irish Poetry Since 1950 - From Stillness into History (Paperback)
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A survey of poetry from Northern Ireland, the Republic, Britain and
the USA. The five chapters of the book cover the 1950s, 1960s, the
early troubles period to 1976, the 1980s and 1990s. Each poet is
placed firmly within his or her historical and social contexts,
with an emphasis on the response to the processes of modernisation,
the representation of violence, poetic form and gender. While the
distinctiveness of Northern and Southern poetries is respected,
Irish poets are seen to be engaged in a continual process of
cross-border exchange. Over 30 individual poets are dealt with, and
in each case detailed readings of individual poems are given along
with contextual material. While the major critical issues are
addressed the book is primarily concerned to break with the small
canon of texts and poets which tends to dominate discussions of the
subject, and emphasizes a heterogeneity and diversity of
achievement. It avoids the imposition of a single interpretation on
a diverse body of writing and makes the case for a wider appraisal
of Irish poetry which considers international and mainstream
influences. It concludes with a discussion of poetry of the
diaspora at a time of the fragile Northern Ireland ceasefire and
the "Celtic Tiger" phenomenon in the Republic.
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