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The Cambridge companion to contemporary Irish poetry
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The history of Irish poetry can be traced back to the early 1970s, when the Northern Ireland Renaissance was represented by the poetry of Austin Clarke and John Goodby as discussed by the authors, and the Irish modernists and their legacy.Abstract:
Chronology 1. Ireland in poetry, 1999, 1949, 1969 Matthew Campbell 2. From Irish mode to modernisation: the poetry of Austin Clarke John Goodby 3. Patrick Kavanagh and anti-pastoral Jonathan Allison 4. Louis MacNiece: irony and responsibility Peter McDonald 5. The Irish modernists and their legacy Alex Davis 6. Poetry of the 1960s: the 'Northern Ireland Renaissance' Fran Brearton 7. Seamus Heaney and violence Dillon Johnston 8. Mahon and Longley: places and placelessness Terence Brown 9. Between two languages: contemporary poetry in Irish and English Frank Sewell 10. Boland, McGuckian, Ni Chuilleanain and the body of the nation Guinn Batten 11. Sonnets, centos, and long lines: Muldoon, Paulin, McGuckian and Carson Shane Murphy 12. Performance and dissent: Irish poets in the public sphere Lucy Collins 13. Irish poets and the world Robert Faggen 14. Irish poetry into the twenty-first century David Wheatley.read more
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