Befitting emblems of adversity
Subtitle: a modern Irish view of Edmund Spenser from W.B. Yeats to the present
By: by David Gardiner.
Publisher: Creighton University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Omaha, Neb
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 20th century.; Yeats, W. B. 1865-1939 -- Knowledge -- Literature.; Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Appreciation -- Ireland.; Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Influence.; Montague, John -- Knowledge -- Literature.; English poetry -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.; Ireland -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Ireland -- In literature.
Description: "In "Befitting Emblems of Adversity," David Gardiner investigates the various national contexts in which Edmund Spenser's poetic project has been interpreted and represented by modern Irish poets, from the colonial context of Elizabethan Ireland to Yeats's use of Spenser as an aesthetic and political model of John Montague's reassessment of the reciprocal definitions of the poet and the nation through reference to Spenser, Gardiner also includes analysis of Spenser's influence on Northern Irish poets.

And an afterword on the work of Thomas McCarthy, Sean Dunne, and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, and others discuss how Montague's reinterpretation of Spenser influenced this most recent generation of Irish poets."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-227) and index.