The seventh instalment in the Poet's Chair series, it is Eilean Ni
Chuilleanain's tenure as Ireland's Professor of Poetry that
provides the pretext for this book, a collection of three essays
exploring the forces that affect the work of every practising poet.
The first essay pays tribute to a valued friend and colleague of Ni
Chuilleanain's, the late Pearse Hutchinson, as well as to the
languages he used and the impact they had even on readers that did
not fully understand them. The second looks at the response of the
reader of poetry and at the often disparaging treatment of the poet
in fiction, from P. G. Wodehouse to Flann O'Brien. In the third
lecture, Ni Chuilleanain returns to her lifelong academic interest
in the poetry of seventeenth-century England and calls on the work
of poets as diverse as Bishop Henry King, Walt Whitman and Thomas
Kinsella to explore poetry's relation to the ceremonies surrounding
death in how it may both comment on and substitute for ritual.
Elegantly designed and masterfully written, Instead of a Shrine
offers a unique opportunity to return to - or, indeed, begin
engaging with - the dynamic world of poetry.
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