Forty chapters, written by leading scholars across the world,
describe the latest thinking on modern Irish poetry. The Handbook
begins with a consideration of Yeats's early work, and the legacy
of the 19th century. The broadly chronological areas which follow,
covering the period from the 1910s through to the 21st century,
allow scope for coverage of key poetic voices in Ireland in their
historical and political context. From the experimentalism of
Beckett, MacGreevy, and others of the modernist generation, to the
refashioning of Yeats's Ireland on the part of poets such as
MacNeice, Kavanagh, and Clarke mid-century, through to the
controversially titled post-1969 'Northern Renaissance' of poetry,
this volume will provide extensive coverage of the key movements of
the modern period. The Handbook covers the work of, among others,
Paul Durcan, Thomas Kinsella, Brendan Kennelly, Seamus Heaney, Paul
Muldoon, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, and Ciaran Carson. The
thematic sections interspersed throughout - chapters on women's
poetry, religion, translation, painting, music, stylistics - allow
for comparative studies of poets north and south across the
century. Central to the guiding spirit of this project is the
Handbook's consideration of poetic forms, and a number of essays
explore the generic diversity of poetry in Ireland, its various
manipulations, reinventions and sometimes repudiations of
traditional forms. The last essays in the book examine the work of
a 'new' generation of poets from Ireland, concentrating on work
published in the last two decades by Justin Quinn, Leontia Flynn,
Sinead Morrissey, David Wheatley, Vona Groarke, and others.
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