Irish Love Poems
Subtitle: Danta Gra
Publisher: Hippocrene Books; Brand: Hippocrene Books
Published: March 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780781803960
Subjects: Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -; Love poetry, English; Irish Poetry; Poetry; Love & Romance; POE001000; POE; Anthologies (multiple authors); English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Ireland; Irish authors
First sentence: "A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. . ." So wrote Yeats.
Description: Together these poems mingle the famous, the infamous, and the unknown into a beautiful and striking anthology. Fraught simultaneously with both violence and love, this work spans four centuries of romance, up-to and including the most modern of poets such as Sara Berkeley and 1995 Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney. It includes romantic favorites, passionate nationalists, Celtic heroes, and modern revivalists. For some of these authors, it is their first appearance in a U.S. anthology.

This welcome collection captures the passion of being Irish and in love, be it the love of a woman or man, country or countryside, or the love of a freedom which seems perpetually elusive.