Title Irish poetry : politics, history, negotiation : the evolving debate, 1969 to the present / Steven Matthews

Published Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997

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Description viii, 249 pages ; 23 cm Contents 1. Introduction: Making History? -- 2. John Hewitt: An Honest Ulsterman's 'Poemosaics' -- 3. Thomas Kinsella's Poetic of Unease -- 4. A Failure to Return: John Montague's The Rough Field -- 5. History Is Only Part of It: Brendan Kennelly's Cromwell -- 6. 'Reconciliation Under Duress': The Architecture of Seamus Heaney's Recent Poetry -- 7. Letters from the Alphabet: Carson's and Muldoon's Contingent Poetics Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244) and index Subject English poetry -- Irish authors -- History and criticism. English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism. English poetry -- Northern Ireland -- History and criticism. Irish poetry -- History and criticism. Literature and history -- Northern Ireland -- History -- 20th century. Political poetry, English -- Northern Ireland -- History and criticism. Political poetry, English -- History and criticism. Politics and literature -- Northern Ireland -- History -- 20th century. SUBJECT Northern Ireland -- In literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116400 Northern Ireland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79055927 -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006346 LC no. 96009649 ISBN 031216436X (U.S.) 0333643356 (U.K. : hardcover) 0333643364 (U.K. : pbk.)

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