Title: Continuity and change in Irish poetry, 1966-2010 /
Authors: Falci, Eric
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: English poetry Irish authors History and criticism; English poetry History and criticism; English poetry History and criticism.; Irish poetry History and criticism.; Irish poetry History and criticism.; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.; Ireland In literature.
Abstract: "In this book, Eric Falci reshapes the story of Irish poetry since the 1960s. He shows how polemical arguments concerning the role of poetry in 1960s Ireland evolve into a set of formal and compositional strategies for emerging Irish poets in the mid 1970s and beyond. His study presents a cohesive picture of the relationship between Northern Irish poetry from the Republic of Ireland since World War II and traces the lineage of lyric practice from a unique historical perspective. At the same time, it recontextualizes late twentieth-century Irish poetry within the long Irish poetic tradition, places Irish writing more accurately within the field of postwar Anglophone poetry and offers a new account of lyric's critical capacities. Of interest to Irish studies and twentieth-century poetry specialists, this book provides a much-needed guide to some of the most inventive and notable poetry written in the past forty years"--
Contents: Introduction -- 1. Refashioning Irish poetry, 1966-1974 -- 2. Triangular Muldoon -- 3. McGuckian's histories -- 4. Carson's city -- 5. Ni; Dhomhnaill along the spine --Conclusion: 'recent Irish poetry'.