Robert Frost and Northern Irish Poetry
Rachel Buxton
Price: £65.00 (Hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926489-6
Publication date: 27 May 2004
236 pages, 216x138 mm
Series: Oxford English Monographs
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| Description | | - A pioneering study of the politics of Irish-American literary connections and exchanges.
- Discusses the poetry of eminent Northern Irish poets, Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon, in a refreshing new context.
- Draws upon a diverse range of previously unpublished archival sources - including juvenilia, correspondence, and drafts of poems.
| In this incisive and highly readable study, Rachel Buxton offers a much-needed assessment of Frost's significance for Northern Irish poetry of the past half-century. Drawing upon a diverse range of previously unpublished archival sources, including juvenilia, correspondence, and drafts of poems, Robert Frost and Northern Irish Poetry takes as its particular focus the triangular dynamic of
Frost, Seamus Heaney, and Paul Muldoon. Buxton explores the differing strengths which each Irish poet finds in Frost's work: while Heaney is drawn primarily to the Frost persona and to the "sound of sense", it is the studied slyness and wryness of the American's poetry, the complicating undertow, which Muldoon values. This appraisal of Frost in a non-American context not only enables a fuller
appreciation of Heaney's and Muldoon's poetry but also provides valuable insight into the nature of trans-national and trans-generational poetic influence. Engaging with the politics of Irish-American literary connections, while providing a subtle analysis of the intertextual relationships between these three key twentieth-century poets, Robert Frost and Northern Irish Poetry is a pioneering
work.
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Readership: Scholars and students of twentieth-century literature, particularly those with an interest in Irish or American poetry.
| Contents |
Preface
1.
"A crucial figure": Robert Frost and Northern Irish poetry
Part One: "The acoustic of frost" - Frost and Heaney
2.
Assimilations of Influence
3.
Strategic retreat
4.
Language and Communication
Part Two: "The frost has designs on it" - Frost and Muldoon
5.
Never quite showing his hand
6.
Structure and serendipity
7.
Intention, purpose, and design
Afterword
Appendices
Bibliography
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| Authors, editors,
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Rachel Buxton, Salvesen Junior Fellow in English at New College, University of Oxford.
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