Kingfishers
Subtitle: essays on Irish and English poetry
By: Giuseppe Serpillo ; with an introduction by Brian Arkins.
Contributors: Arkins, Brian.
Series: Goldsmith critical studies
Publisher: Goldsmith Press; Università degli studi di Sassari, Facolta di Lingue e Letterature Straniere
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Newbridge, Co. Kildare; Sassari, Sardinia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Hopkins, Gerard Manley, -- 1844-1889 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Yeats, W. B. -- 1865-1939 -- Criticism and interpretation.; English poetry -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliography (p. 131-6)

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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Pt. 1: Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poem writing and the quest for silence; title: Hopkins, his translators and temporary truth; title: Simile and its metamorphoses; title: In parenthesis; title: Pt. 2: Aspects of Irish poetry: Polytonality and political preoccupations in twentieth-century Irish poetry; title: The theme of return in contemporary Irish poetry; title: Thoughts on the elegy; title: The old man in Yeats's poetry: paradoxa senectutis.