Download or read book Out of what Began written by Gregory A. Schirmer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of its kind, Out of What Began traces the development of a distinctive tradition of Irish poetry over the course of three centuries. Beginning with Jonathan Swift in the early eighteenth century and concluding with such contemporary poets as Seamus Heaney and Eavan Boland, Gregory A. Schirmer looks at the work of nearly a hundred poets. Considering the evolving political and social environments in which they lived and wrote, Schirmer shows how Irish poetry and culture have come to be shaped by the struggle to define Irish identity. Schirmer includes a large number of accomplished poets who have been unjustly neglected in standard accounts of Irish literature; many of these writers are women, whose work has been kept in the shadows cast by that of well-known male poets. He also emphasizes the importance of political poetry in a country that continues to be torn by sectarian violence. With its rich selection of poetic voices, Out of What Began reveals the political, social, and religious diversity of Irish culture.
Download or read book Irish Literature written by Alexander Norman Jeffares and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spans the first third of the 19th century, documenting Ireland's significant literary contribution, with Thomas Moore's romantic melodies, Maria Edgeworth's regional fiction, and Charles Maturin's voyeuristic Gothic stories. This book records the demise of the rollicking squirearchy and portrays the rise of the stage Irishman.
Download or read book Irish Poetry of Nineteenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Irish Poetry under the Union 1801 1924 written by Matthew Campbell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book retells the story of Irish poetry written in English between the union of Britain and Ireland in 1801 and the early years of the Irish Free State. Through careful poetic and historical analysis, Matthew Campbell offers ways to read that poetry as ruptured, musical, translated and new. The book starts with the Romantic songs and parodies of nationalist and unionist writers - Moore, Mahony, Ferguson and Mangan - in times of defeat, resurgence and famine. It continues through a discussion of English Victorian poets such as Tennyson, Arnold and Hopkins, who wrote Irish poems as the British Empire unraveled. Campbell's treatment ends with Yeats, seeking a new poetry emerging from under union in times of violence and civil war. The book offers both a literary history of nineteenth-century Irish poetry and a way of reading it for scholars of Irish studies as well as Romantic and Victorian literature.
Download or read book 100 Favorite English and Irish Poems written by Clarence C. Strowbridge and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compact anthology features many of the best works by 59 poets writing in English, among them Edmund Spenser, Christina Rossetti, John Milton, Robert Burns, and William Blake.
Download or read book A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue written by Stopford Augustus Brooke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue The position which Ireland holds in the literature of the world is beginning to be understood at last. In the nineteenth century, Ireland, slowly relieved from the oppression which forbade her very speech and denied education to her native intelligence, made known to scholars and the friends of literature the imaginative work she had done in the past. England, who for many years encouraged the cry - Can any good come out of Ireland? - has shown little interest in that work, and the class which in Ireland calls itself cultivated has shown even less interest than England. A few Celtic scholars, many of whom are quite unknown to fame; and a few 'rebellious persons,' who having no chance with the sword grasped the pen began - this labour of love. They awakened little excitement in Trinity College, Dublin, but they did stir up Continental scholars; and that which an Irish University on the whole neglected, was done by German and French professors and students with system, accuracy, and enthusiasm. Moreover, the modem school of critical historians in England and the Continent soon recognised and proclaimed the originating and inspiring work by which Ireland; in ancient days, had awakened England and Europe into intellectual, artistic, and religious life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Songs of an Irish Poet written by Brian Brennan and published by Brian Brennan. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length biography of Mary O'Leary (Máire Bhuí Ní Laoire), one of the most celebrated Irish-language folk poets of the nineteenth century. She was one of the only oral poets of her generation to achieve name recognition after her death. She composed poems that were built to last - songs collected and preserved by folklorists that now occupy a significant place in the repertoires of contemporary traditional performers. The book contains new English-language translations of Mary O'Leary's entire poetic canon, including her best-known song, "The Battle of Keimaneigh" (Cath Chéim an Fhia), a stirring description of an armed clash in 1822 between militia troops and a secret society of Catholic tenant farmers known as the Whiteboys.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry written by Fran Brearton and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty chapters, written by leading scholars across the world, describe the latest thinking on modern Irish poetry. The Handbook begins with a consideration of Yeats's early work, and the legacy of the 19th century. The broadly chronological areas which follow, covering the period from the 1910s through to the 21st century, allow scope for coverage of key poetic voices in Ireland in their historical and political context. From the experimentalism of Beckett, MacGreevy, and others of the modernist generation, to the refashioning of Yeats's Ireland on the part of poets such as MacNeice, Kavanagh, and Clarke mid-century, through to the controversially titled post-1969 'Northern Renaissance' of poetry, this volume will provide extensive coverage of the key movements of the modern period. The Handbook covers the work of, among others, Paul Durcan, Thomas Kinsella, Brendan Kennelly, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, and Ciaran Carson. The thematic sections interspersed throughout - chapters on women's poetry, religion, translation, painting, music, stylistics - allow for comparative studies of poets north and south across the century. Central to the guiding spirit of this project is the Handbook's consideration of poetic forms, and a number of essays explore the generic diversity of poetry in Ireland, its various manipulations, reinventions and sometimes repudiations of traditional forms. The last essays in the book examine the work of a 'new' generation of poets from Ireland, concentrating on work published in the last two decades by Justin Quinn, Leontia Flynn, Sinead Morrissey, David Wheatley, Vona Groarke, and others.
Download or read book Irish Poetry from Moore to Yeats written by Robert Welch and published by Irish Literary Studies. This book was released on 1980 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish Poetry from Moore to Yeats examines the work of seven of the most significant Irish poets of the nineteenth century. Beginning with the impact that Thomas Moore's nationalist sentiment and generalised tone had on the language of poetry for much of the century, Prof. Welch then discusses J. J. Callanan's attempt to deal with a Byronic restlessness and his startling translations from the Gaelic. He shows how James Clarence Mangan tested out different 'voices' to express his psychic plurality and discovered a special freedom in his versions of Gaelic originals. He describes the foundering of Samuel Ferguson's vision of the reconciliation of Gaelic and Protestant traditions and demonstrates how the transcendental Catholicism of Aubrey de Vere mirrored Ireland's historical difficulties. He surveys William Allingham's scope, fairmindedness and attention to detail, and lastly considers the comprehensive power of W. B. Yeats's searching, qualifying imagination that informs his early work. A tradition emerges, composite, flawed, passionate, rhetorical, anxious; its intricate entanglements underlie many of the preoccupations of twentieth century Irish life and writing.
Download or read book Irish Poetry under the Union 1801 1924 written by Matthew Campbell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of Irish poetry in English, from the union of Ireland and Great Britain in 1801 to the Irish Free State in 1921 and beyond. It offers both a literary history of nineteenth-century Irish poetry and a way of reading it for scholars of Irish studies as well as Romantic and Victorian literature.
Download or read book 1000 Years of Irish Poetry written by Kathleen Hoagland and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Taisce Duan written by Seán McMahon and published by Poolbeg Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An anthology literally, a treasure trove of favorite Irish poems, in the original Gaelic with English translations...a true 'treasure trove' of riches". -- Irish America. "(Includes) some of the best Irish poetry from the early seventeenth to the nineteenth century. The translations, or versions as they are more accurately called, are done by many different hands and are examples of the diverse ways, joys and pitfalls of their craft. They are nearly all new and have a freshness and excitement about them". -- Books Ireland. Translators include some of modern Ireland's foremost poets and scholars, including Gabriel Rosenstock, Michael Davitt, Brendan Kennelly, and others.
Download or read book A History of Irish Women s Poetry written by Ailbhe Darcy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Irish Women's Poetry is a ground-breaking and comprehensive account of Irish women's poetry from earliest times to the present day. It reads Irish women's poetry through many prisms – mythology, gender, history, the nation – and most importantly, close readings of the poetry itself. It covers major figures, such as Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, as well as neglected figures from the past. Writing in both English and Irish is considered, and close attention paid to the many different contexts in which Irish women's poetry has been produced and received, from the anonymous work of the early medieval period, through the bardic age, the coterie poets of Anglo-Ireland, the nationalist balladeers of Young Ireland, the Irish Literary Revival, and the advent of modernity. As capacious as it is diverse, this book is an essential contribution to scholarship in the field.
Download or read book The Irish Poems of J J Callanan written by Jeremiah Joseph Callanan and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the relatively slender volume of his work and the obscurity that marked his brief life--he was known to his friends as "the Recluse"--the Cork poet J. J. Callanan (1795-1829) has come to be recognized as one of the most significant Irish poets writing before Yeats. Inspired equally by English romanticism and Ireland's Gaelic culture, and drawing often on the life of Irish-speaking communities in West Cork, Callanan's work negotiates with remarkable effect between Ireland's two principal traditions, while giving voice to many of the cultural forces that were shaping Irish life in the early years of the nineteenth century. Callanan's poetry has been out of print since 1883. This long-overdue selection brings together all his poems having to do with Ireland, including those for which he is best known--his poetic translations from the Irish, lyrics such as "Gougane Barra," and his long autobiographical poem, "The Recluse of Inchidony," The poems are fully annotated, and original sources for the translations, where known, are given. The introduction provides a detailed account of Callanan's life, drawing in part on private letters and diaries, as well as a critical assessment of his poetry. There is also an extensive bibliography that includes a listing of all critical writings about Callanan.
Download or read book Tradition and Influence in Anglo Irish Poetry written by Terence Brown and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1989 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays presenting an "insider" view of the Irish poetic tradition. It brings together some of the best-known poets and critics writing in Ireland today, exploring the multiple traditions and influences within Anglo-Irish poetry from the 19th century to the present.
Download or read book The Kiltartan Poetry Book prose translations from the Irish written by Lady Gregory and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Kiltartan Poetry Book; prose translations from the Irish" by Lady Gregory. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book The Wild Irish Girl written by Stephen Copley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel intervenes in many of the literary and philosophical debates of the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, forging a connection between the eighteenth-century discourse of sentiment and the emergent nineteenth-century concept of the nation. Lady Morgan's Introductory Letters are included.
