 | District and Circle: Poems
Release Date: April 3, 2007| ISBN-10: 0374530815 | ISBN-13: 978-0374530815| Edition: 1st District and Circle inhabits the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory. Scenes from a childhood spent far from the horrors of World War II are colored by a strongly contemporary sense that "Anything can happen," and other images from the dangerous present--a fireman's helmet, a journey on the Underground, a melting glacier--are fraught with this same a...
 |  | The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publication Date: January 19, 2009| ISBN-10: 0521547555 | ISBN-13: 978-0521547550Seamus Heaney is a unique phenomenon in contemporary literature, as a poet whose individual volumes (such as his Beowulf translation, and individual volumes of poems such as Electric Light and District and Circle) have been high in the bestseller lists for decades. Since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, he has come to be considered one of the most important English language poets in the world. This Companion gives an up-to-date overview of his career thus far, and of his reception in Ireland, England ...
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|  | Collected Poems
Publication Date: November 23, 1995"Collected Poems" includes work from Eavan Boland's early collections "New Territory", "The War Horse" and "In Her Own Image", as well as from her four Carcanet volumes. ...
|  | Words Alone: Yeats and His Inheritances
Publication Date: July 15, 2011Roy Foster's two-volume biography of Yeats was hailed in the New York Review of Books as "a triumph of scholarship, thought, and empathy such as one would hardly have thought possible in this age of disillusion." Now, Foster turns his focus to the largely unacknowledged influences that shaped the young W.B. Yeats. So dramatic and revolutionary was Yeats' impact on Irish literature that the writers and traditions that preceded him are often overlooked, just as his successors are often overshadowed by his achievement. In Words Alone, Roy Foster explores the Irish...
|  | Thanks For Nothing, Hippies
Publication Date: August 30, 2012This book may be the essential survival guide to nearly everything for the disaffected; it offers its off-kilter judgments on issues as wide ranging as Mexico's narco wars or surviving in a modern workplace, it endures scarcely tolerable bus journeys in odd places and provides a myriad of tips for ruining perfectly good relationships along the way. In these restless and darkly funny poems the writer trawls life's horrors, pleasures, and its most banal irritations in search of an identity she can live with. ...
|  | The AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (REISSUE)
Publication Date: May 31, 1986Very good condition ...
|  | Eavan Boland: A Critical Companion
Publication Date: November 17, 2008A San Francisco Chronicle BestBook: a celebrated collection from "one of thefinest and boldest poets of the last halfcentury" (Poetry Review).These are poems about the charged spaces in which people live, about the interiors whereseductions, quarrels, memories, and griefsoccur. A marriage is a window for outwardviolence; a painted cup becomes a theater for along love; in an ordinary room a mythicviolation takes place. 7 illustrations ...
|  | Irish Essays
Publication Date: May 16, 2011Denis Donoghue has been a key figure in Irish studies and an important public intellectual in Ireland, the UK and US throughout his career. These essays represent the best of his writing and operate in conversation with one another. He probes the questions of Irish national and cultural identity that underlie the finest achievements of Irish writing in all genres. Together, the essays form an unusually lively and far-reaching study of three crucial Irish writers - Swift, Yeats and Joyce - together with other voices including Mangan, Beckett, Trevor, McGahern and...
|  | James Joyce's Chamber Music: The Lost Song Settings
Publication Date: June 1993James Joyce's first published work, a little book of poems entitled "Chamber Music", appeared in 1907. Graceful, delicate, and patterned after Elizabethan 'ayres', the lyrics heralded the musical quality of language intrinsic to Joyce's genius. Joyce himself called the poems 'a suite of songs' and stated that they 'were meant to be set to music'. Joyce described the settings by Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer (1882-1957) as 'elegant' and 'distinguished' and made strenuous efforts to get them published and performed. However, the composer was strangely reluctant, and for m...
|  | Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney
Release Date: December 9, 2008Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies, but no book-length portrait has appeared before now. Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, Stepping Stones retraces the poet’s steps from his first exploratory testing of the ground as an infant to what he called his “moon-walk” to the podium to receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It also fascinatingly charts his post-Nobel life and is supplemented with a number of photographs, many from the Heaney family album a...
|  | Four Dubliners: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett
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|  | The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century British and Irish Women's Poetry (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publication Date: April 29, 2011| Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature This Companion provides new ways of reading a wide range of influential women's poetry. Leading international scholars offer insights on a century of writers, drawing out the special function of poetry and the poets' use of language, whether it is concerned with the relationship between verbal and visual art, experimental poetics, war, landscape, history, cultural identity or 'confessional' lyrics. Collectively, the chapters cover well established and less familiar poets, from Edith Sitwell and Mina Loy, through Ste...
|  | Zakia's Poems
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|  | The Redress of Poetry
Publication Date: October 30, 1996Seamus Heaney defines the title of this work of criticism as follows: "To redress poetry is to know and celebrate it for its forcibleness as itself . . . not only as a matter of profferd argument and edifying content but as a matter of angelic potential, a motion of the soul." Throughout this collection, Heaney's insight and eloquence are themselves of a poetic order. ...
|  | My Father's Son (Irish Studies Series)
Publication Date: April 1999| Series: Irish Studies Series Frank O'Connor, at twenty-three, comes out of the internment camp where he had been imprisoned as an Irish revolutionary, and plunges into the burgeoning intellectual-political ferment of Dublin in the 1920s.In this book,he re-creates his years as a young writer, providing as he does so a portrait of an era. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Poets and Poetry of the Great Blasket
Publication Date: December 31, 2003Seamas O Scannlain has brought together the work of three Blasket Island poets spanning a period of three hundred and fifty years. He has translated their work from the original Irish into English and the poems are presented here in both languages. These classic works paint a picture of a way of life that has almost disappeared from Ireland. Piaras Firtear (1603-1653) was a member of the pre-Cromwellian Irish gentry and his poetry carries the hallmarks of his class. Sean O Duinnsleibhe (1812-1889) belonged to the landless labourers of nineteenth century Ire...
|  | Poems and Exiles (Twentieth Century Classics)
Publication Date: January 2, 1992| ISBN-10: 0140185550 | ISBN-13: 978-0140185553It is only James Joyce's towering genius as a novelist that has led to the comparative neglect of his poetry and sole surviving play. And yet, argues Mays in his stimulating and informative introduction, several of these works not only occupy a pivotal position in Joyce's career; they are also magnificently assured achievements in their own right. Chamber Music is 'an extraordinary debut', fusing the styles of the nineties and the Irish Revival with irony and characteristic verbal exuberance. "Pomes Penyeach ...
|  | The Poor Bugger's Tool: Irish Modernism, Queer Labor, and Postcolonial History
Publication Date: July 16, 2012With the weakening moral authority of the Catholic Church, the boom ushered in by the Celtic Tiger, and the slow but steady diminishment of the Troubles in the North, Ireland has finally stepped out from the shadows of colonial oppression onto the world stage as a major cosmopolitan country. Taking its title from a veiled reference to Roger Casement-the humanitarian and Irish patriot hanged for treason-in James Joyce's Ulysses, The Poor Bugger's Tool demonstrates how the affective labor of Irish queer culture might contribute to a progressive new national image...
|  | Hidden Ireland
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