Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry by Peter Mackay,Edna Longley,Fran Brearton PDF

By Peter Mackay,Edna Longley,Fran Brearton

ISBN-10: 0521196027

ISBN-13: 9780521196024

The comparative learn of the literatures of eire and Scotland has emerged as a different and buoyant box in recent times. This number of new essays bargains the 1st sustained comparability of recent Irish and Scottish poetry, that includes shut readings of texts inside wide historic and political contextualisation. taking part in on affects, crossovers, connections, disconnections and ameliorations, the 'affinities' and 'opposites' traced during this e-book move either Irish and Scottish poetry in lots of instructions. members comprise significant students of the recent 'archipelagic' method, in addition to top Irish and Scottish poets supplying very important insights into present artistic perform. Poets mentioned comprise W. B. Yeats, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, Louis MacNeice, Edwin Morgan, Douglas Dunn, Seamus Heaney, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala ni Dhomhnaill, Don Paterson and Kathleen Jamie. This e-book is a huge contribution to our knowing of poetry from those islands within the 20th and twenty-first centuries.

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