A short history of Irish literature, a backward look
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1967
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
Table of contents: title: Early Ireland -- The beginning of poetry -- Early Irish story-telling -- Primary literature -- Sagas and pseudo-sagas -- The Norse and after -- Romanesque and Gothic -- The Renaissance in Ireland -- Anglo-Irish literature -- Eighteenth-century literature in English -- The background of modern Irish literature -- The beginnings of modern literature -- Death and transfiguration -- William Butler Yeats: I -- William Butler Yeats: II -- All the Olympians -- Antithesis: I -- Antithesis: Il -- Transition -- ‘And now that our story… -- Appendix: early Irish Story-telling.