The Great War in Irish Poetry
W. B. Yeats to Michael Longley
Fran Brearton
Price: £64.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-818672-4
Publication date: 1 June 2000
328 pages, 214x136 mm
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| Reviews |
| - 'In its provocative arguments about the relationship between Irish memory and the First World War, and it its penetrating readings of individual authors, Brearton's book is welcome, timely, and necessary' - Notes and Queries
- 'One of the most valuable things about this study is the way the author brings into the foreground those echoes of and allusions to the First World War which are normally overlooked because they seem marginal and relatively unimportant' - Notes and Queries
- 'Pathbreaking ... a welcome addition to the burgeoning field of criticism on Great War poetry' - Notes and Queries
- 'Detailed and authoritative... convincing and subtly argued proof of its key propositions about the War's imaginative potency ... Brearton's criticism makes a strong case for the status of Nothern Irish poetry as especially revealing. Brearton's eloquent, agile, and intellectually daring book transforms 'the debate' about Irish poetry in a decisive way.' - Peter McDonald, Times Literary
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| Description | 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 culture and politics in the twentieth century. The
historical background to Irish involvement in the Great War is explained, as are the ways in which some of the events of 1912-1920 -- the Home Rule crisis, the loss of the Titanic, the Battle of the Somme, the Easter Rising -- still reverberate in the politics of remembrance in Northern Ireland.
While the Great War is perceived as central to English culture, and its literature holds a
privileged position in the English literary canon, the centrality of the Great War to Irish writing has seldom been acknowledged. This book is concerned with the extent to which recognition of the importance of the Great War in Irish writing has become a casualty of competing versions of the literary canon. It shows that, despite complications in Irish domestic politics which led to the
repression of 'official memory' of the Great War in Ireland, Irish poets, particularly those writing in the 'troubled' Northern Ireland of the last thirty years, have been drawn throughout the century to the events and images of 1914-18.
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Readership: Irish studies academics, First World War cultural historians, Irish historians, contemporary poetry critics, English and Irish literature students
| Contents |
Part I: 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
Part II: 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
Index
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| Authors, editors,
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Fran Brearton, Lecturer in English, Queens University, Belfast
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