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Author Buxton, Rachel

Title Robert Frost and Northern Irish Poetry
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, UK, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (236 pages)
Series Oxford English Monographs
Oxford English monographs.
Contents Foreword; Contents; Abbreviations; I. ROBERT FROST AND NORTHERN IRISH POETRY; II. 'THE ACOUSTIC OF FROST'--FROST AND HEANEY; III. 'THE FROST HAS DESIGNS ON IT'--FROST AND MULDOON; Afterword: Speaking of Contraries; Appendix A: Paul Muldoon, 'Considering the Islands'; Appendix B: Seamus Heaney, 'Obituary'; Appendix C: Paul Muldoon, 'The Sharping Stone'; Appendix D: Paul Muldoon, 'The Swing'; Bibliography; Index
Summary Robert Frost and Northern Irish Poetry is a pioneering study of the politics of Irish-American literary connections and exchanges, offering a much-needed assessment of Frost's significance for Northern Irish poetry of the past half-century. Drawing upon a diverse range of previously unpublished archival sources, Buxton takes as her particular focus the triangular dynamic of Frost, Heaney, and Muldoon, exploring the differing strengths which each Irish poet finds in Frost's work. This appraisal of Frost in a non-American context not only enables a fuller appreciation of Heaney's and Muldoon's p
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Subject Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 -- Appreciation -- Northern Ireland
Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013 -- Knowledge -- Literature
Muldoon, Paul -- Knowledge -- Literature
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 -- Influence
SUBJECT Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 fast
Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013 fast
Muldoon, Paul fast
Subject English poetry -- Irish authors -- History and criticism
English poetry -- Irish authors -- American influences
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Art appreciation
English poetry -- Irish authors
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Intellectual life
Literature
SUBJECT Northern Ireland -- Intellectual life
Northern Ireland -- In literature
Subject Northern Ireland
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191514715
0191514713
0199264899
9780199264896