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Journey into joy : selected prose
- Title
- Journey into joy : selected prose / Brendan Kennelly ; edited by Åke Persson.
- Author
- Kennelly, Brendan.
- Publication
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Bloodaxe Books ; Chester Springs, PA : U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions, 1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PR6061.E6 J68 1994 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Persson, Åke.
- Description
- 271 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "In his essay on Patrick Kavanagh, Brendan Kennelly writes: 'A poet's critical judgements are always, at bottom, necessary justifications of his own most dearly held aesthetic.' This selection of his critical writing is as illuminating in what it says about his own ideas and methods as it is about the writers whose work he discusses." "The book contains his essays on the major Irish writers of the 20th century: Yeats, Joyce, O'Casey, MacNeice, Kavanagh, Austin Clarke, Frank O'Connor, Flann O'Brien and Liam O'Flaherty. It brings together his writings on Derek Mahon, Joseph Plunkett and George Moore. Taken together they present his view that literature should be lucidly expressed, rooted in the real world, and true to the writer's experience, and to the world's sufferings and joy."--Jacket.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- English literature > Irish authors > History and criticism
- English literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- 18.05 English literature
- English literature
- English literature > Irish authors
- Intellectual life
- Literature
- Englisch
- Literatur
- Lyrik
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Letterkunde
- Engels
- Geschichte (1900-1990)
- Geschichte 1890-1990
- Ireland > Intellectual life > 20th century
- Ireland > In literature
- Ireland
- Irland
- Englisch
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- is gift of Leonard L. Milberg.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-264) and index.
- Contents
- Poetry and violence -- View of Irish poetry: Irish poetry to Yeats ; Irish poetry since Yeats -- View of Irish drama -- Poetry of Joseph Plunkett -- Patrick Kavanagh's comic vision -- Derek Mahon's humane perspective -- Louis MacNeice: an Irish outsider -- George Moore's lonely voices: a study of his short stories -- Heroic ideal in Yeats's Cuchulain plays -- Austin Clarke and the epic poem -- Satire in Flann O'Brien's The poor mouth -- The little monasteries: Frank O'Connor as poet -- Liam O'Flaherty: the unchained storm -- Seán O'Casey's journey into joy -- James Joyce's humanism -- W.B. Yeats: an experiment in living.
- ISBN
- 1852242108
- 9781852242107
- 1852242094
- 9781852242091
- LCCN
- 93161015
- OCLC
- ocm32589378
- 32589378
- SCSB-2033773
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library