Simultane ously these authors have been appropriated by an international criticism that sees them primarily as lit erary modernists or postmodernists. The essays in this volume seek to place these dfffering versions into the context of current definitions. Joan Keefe here presents her new versions of poems that come from the time when the great tradition of Irish poetry, as it had been known for a thousand years, was brought to an end. It combines many of the characteristics of classical Irish poetry, rough ened but kept vigorous by the common imagination. Each volume of this series is devoted to one Irish writer of the 19th or 20th century, giving a full ac count of their literary careers and major works, and considering the relationship of their Irish back grounds to their writings as a whole.
Every volume is accompanied by a selective bibliography.
These studies will prove helpful to literary scholars and to students of literature for they will bring to bear on their subjects contemporary critical insights, attitudes, and techniques. See the Irish Writers Series. VlSION, Richard Reinitz . This book presents the argu ment that the growth in the use of Niebuhrian irony in American historical writing is an indication of the developing maturation of American historical con sciousness. This book asserts a secular, comprehensive, ironic interpretation of the American past that has never been presented.