| Description |
xii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Reading Spenser, Writing Ireland -- The Greening of Edmund Spenser: W. B. Yeats and Edward Dowden -- The Island of The Statues (1885) -- "Barbarous Truth": Fashioning an Irish Spenser (1886-1902) -- The "Laureled Poet" and "Tongues of Steel": The Poems of Edmund Spenser (1906) -- Master of The Common Tongue: "The Municipal Gallery Re-visited" (1938) -- "The Last Bard of The O'Neills": The Poetry of John Montague -- The Passage Into Spenser's Ireland -- The Rough Field (1972) -- "Theire Howse, There Bed, And Their Garment": John Montague and The Spenserian Mantle -- Afterword: "No woods can answer and no echoes ring": Contemporary Cork Poets and Edmund Spenser |
| Summary |
"In "Befitting Emblems of Adversity," David Gardiner investigates the various national contexts in which Edmund Spenser's poetic project has been interpreted and represented by modern Irish poets, from the colonial context of Elizabethan Ireland to Yeats's use of Spenser as an aesthetic and political model of John Montague's reassessment of the reciprocal definitions of the poet and the nation through reference to Spenser, Gardiner also includes analysis of Spenser's influence on Northern Irish poets. And an afterword on the work of Thomas McCarthy, Sean Dunne, and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, and others discuss how Montague's reinterpretation of Spenser influenced this most recent generation of Irish poets."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-227) and index |
| Subject |
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 20th century.
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Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Knowledge -- Literature
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Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Appreciation -- Ireland.
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Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Influence.
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Montague, John -- Knowledge -- Literature
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English poetry -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.
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| SUBJECT |
Ireland -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115504
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Ireland -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104923
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| LC no. |
00021398 |
| ISBN |
188187138X hardcover |
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1881871398 paperback |
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