Great War in Irish Poetry W. B. Yeats to Michael Longley

Name: Great War in Irish Poetry W. B. Yeats to Michael Longley
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ISBN: 9780199261383

ISBN-10: 0199261385

ISBN-13: 9780199261383

Edition: 2003

Authors: Fran Brearton

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The Great War in Irish Poetry explores the impact of the First World War on the work of W. B. Yeats, Robert Graves, and Louis MacNeice in the period 1914-45, and on three contemporary Northern Irish poets, Derek Mahon, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley. Its concern is to place their work, and memory of the Great War, in the context of Irish politics and culture in the twentieth century. The historical background to Irish involvement in the Great War is explained, as are the ways inwhich issues raised in 1912-20 still reverberate in the politics of remembrance in Northern Ireland, particularly through such events as the Home Rule cause, the loss of the Titanic, the Battle of the Somme, the…

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List price: $70.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/3/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 5.39" wide x 8.50" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Dr Fran Brearton is Reader in English at Queen's University, Belfast. She is the author of The Great War in Irish Poetry (2000) and Reading Michael Longley (2006).




The art of the war


Ireland in the Great War: literature, history, culture


W. B. Yeats: creation from conflict


Robert Graves: resisting the canon


Louis MacNeice: between two wars



The northern renascence


Northern Ireland and the politics of remembrance


A dying art: Derek Mahon's solving ambiguity


The end of art: Seamus Heaney's apology for poetry


Michael Longley: poet in no man's land


Bibliography


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