Against piety
Subtitle: essays in Irish poetry
By: Gerald Dawe.
Publisher: Lagan Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Belfast
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: English poetry -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.; Literature and history -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century.; English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Ireland -- In literature.
Description: Widely regarded as one of Ireland's sharpest critics of poetry, Gerald Dawe provides a collection critical essays on modern Irish poets. Reading the work of each poet in his or her own right, Dawe questions the relationship between history and poetry in the context of the social and political issues of contemporary Ireland. What emerges is an intellectual portrait of each poet and his culture from the late 1970s through the end of the 20th century.