Rev–Cont Irish Poetry - Hardcover

Bradley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520059271 ISBN 13: 9780520059276

Publisher: University of California Press, 1992

Synopsis

The poems featured in this anthology are quintessentially human documents informed by humor, compassion, and a joyful and visionary elementan impulse to praise what is really life and to protect it from the naysayersas well as by a salutary realism and irony.

This revised edition features the work of Tom Paulin, Medbh McGuckian, Paul Durcan, Aidan Carl Mathews, Anne Hartigan, Nuala ní Dhomhnaill, and others who were not included in the first edition. Moreover, the selections from those poets featured in the first edition have, in many cases, been extensively changed and updated. In total, more than half the poems published in this second edition did not appear in the first.

About this title

Review:

"Ireland's many fine poets in the shadow of Yeats have until now not been accorded appropriate recognition in the U. S. . . .Bradley's handsome, well-conceived anthology . . .is a much needed one."--Shaun O'Connell, "Boston Globe

About the Author:

Anthony Bradley was born in Ireland. He holds degrees from Queen's University, Belfast and the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is Professor of English at the University of Vermont, where he teaches Modern Irish Literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0520059271
• ISBN 13: 9780520059276
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 420