The Irish Poet and the Natural World: An Anthology of Verse in English from the Tudors to the Romantics - Hardcover

Andrew Carpenter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1782050647 ISBN 13: 9781782050643

Publisher: Cork University Press, 2014

Synopsis

This annotated anthology of poems makes available a rich variety of Irish texts depicting the relationship between humans and the environment between the years 1580 and 1820. More than a hundred poems are printed here, together with an extensive critical introduction, notes on each text, and a full bibliography. All the poets whose work is represented were born in Ireland or are identified as Irish. As well as re-publishing the work of major poets such as Oliver Goldsmith, Laurence Whyte and William Drummond, this anthology includes many works by little known or anonymous authors. This volume also reflects current scholarship on the relationship between literature and the environment, enriching our understanding of attitudes in pre-Romantic Ireland towards changing landscapes and agricultural practices, towards human responsibility for the non-human world, and towards the relationship between nature and aesthetics. As well as adding considerably to existing knowledge of the printing and reading of poetry in Ireland during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this anthology also traces the developments in sensibility in Irish poetry during this period, offering new perspectives on the advent of Romanticism in England and on the ways in which this revolutionised the relationship between nature and representation.

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Review:

The editors of this collection from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth century have edited and annotated their selection with skill, including judicious footnotes and succinct biographical notes. This is both a relief and a pleasure, making this a work one wants to dip into and flick back and forth, as indeed the editors would wish us to do...this lively, wide-ranging and superbly selected anthology. This is a book to take down from the shelves often. --Books Ireland

About the Author:

Andrew Carpenter Emeritus Professor of English, University College Dublin General Editor, The Art and Architecture of Ireland, Royal Irish Academy/ Yale University Press. Lucy Collins is a Lecturer in English Literature, University College Dublin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cork University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1782050647
• ISBN 13: 9781782050643
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Andrew Carpenter, Lucy Collins