Research Catalog

Title

Eavan Boland / Jody Allen Randolph.

Author

Randolph, Jody Allen.

Publication

• Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2014]
• ©2014

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Details

Description

xxxi, 249 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"In this powerful and authoritative study Jody Allen Randolph provides the fullest account yet of the work of a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature as well as in contemporary women's writing. Eavan Boland's achievement in changing the map of Irish poetry is tracked and analyzed from her first poems to the present. The book traces the evolution of that achievement, guiding the reader through Boland's early attachment to Yeats, her growing unease with the absence of women's writing, her encounter with pioneering American poets like Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, and Adrienne Rich, and her eventual, challenging amendments in poetry and prose to Ireland's poetic tradition. Using research from private papers the book also traces a time of upheaval and change in Ireland, exploring Boland's connection to Mary Robinson, in a chapter that details the nexus of a woman president and a woman poet in a country that was resistant to both. Finally, this book invites the reader to share a compelling perspective on the growth of a poet described by one critic as Ireland's "first great woman poet"--

Series Statement

Contemporary Irish writers

Uniform Title

Contemporary Irish writers (Lewisburg, Pa.)

Subjects

• English literature > Women authors > History and criticism
• English literature > Irish authors > Biography
• English literature > Women authors > Biography
• English literature > Irish authors > History and criticism
• Boland, Eavan > Criticism and interpretation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- The poetics of origin. Beginnings; The muse mother -- The nexus of influence. Claims of belonging; The dour line -- From patria to matria. The first draft; In her own image; Night feed -- Out of myth into history. The journey; Outside history; The telling of stories -- Changing the past. A time of violence; Object lessons; The lost land -- Exiles in our own country. Against love poetry; Domestic violence; Journeys and maps.

Call Number

JFE 14-2017

ISBN

• 9781611485363 (cloth)
• 1611485363 (cloth)
• 9781611485370 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013024945

OCLC

852833551

Author

Randolph, Jody Allen.

Title

Eavan Boland / Jody Allen Randolph.

Publisher

Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2014]

Copyright Date

©2014

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Contemporary Irish writers

Contemporary Irish writers (Lewisburg, Pa.)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-2017