Title: Against piety : essays in Irish poetry /
Authors: Dawe, Gerald, 1952-
Publisher: Lagan Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: English poetry Irish authors History and criticism; Literature and history Ireland History; English poetry History and criticism; Ireland In literature.
Abstract: Widely regarded as one of Ireland's sharpest critics of poetry, Gerald Dawe provides a collection critical essays on modern Irish poets. Reading the work of each poet in his or her own right, Dawe questions the relationship between history and poetry in the context of the social and political issues of contemporary Ireland. What emerges is an intellectual portrait of each poet and his culture from the late 1970s through the end of the 20th century.
Contents: Brief confrontations: the Irish writer's history -- A question of imagination: poetry in Ireland -- An absence of influence: three modernst poets -- Heroic heart: Charles Donnelly -- Anatomist of Melancholia: Louis MacNeice -- Against piety: John Hewitt -- Our secret being: Padraic Fiacc -- Blood and famliy: Thomas Kinsella -- Invocation of powers: John Montague -- Breathing spaces: Brendan Kennelly -- Icon and lares: Michael Longley and Derek Mahon -- The suburban night: Eavan Boland, Paul Durcan and Thomas McCarthy.