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Contemporary Irish poetry and the pastoral tradition / Donna L. Potts.

Title
Contemporary Irish poetry and the pastoral tradition / Donna L. Potts.
Author
Potts, Donna L., 1962-
Publication
Columbia [Mo.] ; London : University of Missouri Press, c2011.

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xi, 216 p.; 25 cm.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Boland, Eavan
  • English poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
  • English poetry > History and criticism
  • Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013
  • Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013
  • Irish poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Longley, Michael, 1939-
  • McGuckian, Medbh, 1950-
  • Montague, John
  • Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala, 1952-
  • Pastoral poetry, English > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-205) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
A lost pastoral rhythm : the poetry of John Montague -- "The god in the tree" : Seamus Heaney and the pastoral tradition -- "Love poems, elegies: I am losing my place" : Michael Longley's environmental elegies -- Learning the lingua franca of a lost land : Eavan Boland's suburban pastoral -- "In my handkerchief of a garden" : Medbh McGuckian's miniature pastoral retreats -- "When Ireland was still under a spell" : miraculous transformations in the poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill -- Conclusion: The future of pastoral.
ISBN
  • 9780826219435
  • 0826219438
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library