Title A history of Irish women's poetry / edited by Ailbhe Darcy, Cardiff University ; David Wheatley, University of Aberdeen

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 476 pages) Summary "In the millennial year 2000, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin published an essay on the nineteenth-century poet Speranza, claiming her as a foremother. Ní Chuilleanáin asks: 'what use are our female predecessors to us as writers, what is the function of model, teacher, exemplar?' What Irish women poets seek when they conjure foremothers is continuity: a 'women's tradition' that legitimises the writing of their own poetry; influence aside, a sense of 'the woman writer as embodied, creative agent in the process of textual production, ' to use Jennie Batchelor's phrase. When Ní Chuilleanáin considers Speranza as a foremother, she remarks that Speranza's life has mattered to her as much as her work and: if we are to consider the importance of her example for women writers of a later generation, it's partly in that lesson, that it is possible to have a warm and generous character and to look after and remain close to one's children while holding on to the egotism that makes one a writer. It's both as a person and as the kind of writer she is that she functions as exemplar and ancestor. Women writers of the past are useful to women writers of the present in part because they legitimise the business of writing; we can look to the busy women poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and imagine a life and maybe even a livelihood that comprehends the art"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 07, 2021) Subject English poetry -- Irish authors -- History and criticism English poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism English poetry -- Irish authors. English poetry -- Women authors. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Darcy, Ailbhe, 1981- editor. Wheatley, David, 1970- editor. LC no. 2020055268 ISBN 9781108778596 1108778593 9781108806763 1108806767

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