To Ireland, I
By: Paul Muldoon.
Series: The Clarendon lectures in English literature ;; 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism; Irish literature -- History and criticism; Ireland -- In literature
Description: "In To Ireland, I, the Clarendon Lectures in English 1998, Paul Muldoon produces a firework display of scholarship, wit, and intrigue, in a wander through the alphabet of Irish literature. From a mischievous beginning in Amergin - 'the first poet of Ireland' - Muldoon forges link after link between the disparate and the unlikely, until modernists and medievalists appear as congenial neighbours on the half-lit, literary streets of Ireland." "A provocative A to Z, with a particular emphasis on the continuity of the tradition, To Ireland, I is a jaunt through Irish literature from one of the most important poets of his generation."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-145) and index.
Table of contents: title: Wonder-birth; title: Such a local row; title: Alone tra la; title: Contaygious to the Nile.