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Neil Corcoran is one of Britains most accomplished commentators on contemporary poetry. In this exciting contribution to the study of both Anglo-Irish literature and modern poetry, Corcoran brings a keen critical intelligence and an informed contextual awareness to the work of W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Austin Clarke, Padraic Fallon, Louis MacNeice, Paul Muldoon and Ciaran Carson. He puts forward a powerful case for certain contextual and intertextual modes of reading the work of these poets. These contexts and intertexts established include: the contentious debate between nationalist and revisionist criticism; the relationship between Irish and American poetry; the writing of place and its political significance; the prominent engagement with issues of sexuality and the erotic; the persistence of the religious inpulse or theological content; and the Irish language and the preoccupation with forms of translation. Poets of Modern Ireland : Text, Context, Intertext is a major contribution to the critical reception of a poetry which has been the focus of some of the most intense and vital contemporary critical debates in Britain, Ireland and America.
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Poets of Modern Ireland : Text, Context, Intertext
author
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Corcoran, Neil.
publisher
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University of Wales
isbn10 | asin
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0708315135
print isbn13
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9780708315132
ebook isbn13
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9780585230313
language
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English
subject
English poetry--Irish authors--History and criticism, Literature and history--Ireland--History--20th century, Ireland--Intellectual life--20th century, Northern Ireland--In literature, Ireland--In literature, Intertextuality.
publication date
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1999
lcc
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PR8771.C67 1999eb
ddc
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821.91409
subject
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English poetry--Irish authors--History and criticism, Literature and history--Ireland--History--20th century, Ireland--Intellectual life--20th century, Northern Ireland--In literature, Ireland--In literature, Intertextuality.
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Poets of Modern Ireland
Text, Context, Intertext
Neil Corcoran
UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS CARDIFF 1999
Page iv
Neil Corcoran, 1999
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 0-7083-1513-5
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without clearance from the University of Wales Press, 6 Gwennyth Street, Cardiff, CF2 4YD.
The right of Neil Corcoran to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Typeset at University of Wales Press Printed in Great Britain by Dinefwr Press, Llandybe
Page v
For Daniel John Corcoran
Page vii
Contents
Preface
ix
Acknowledgements
xiv
1 Architectures of Yeats: Perspectives on The Winding Stair
1
2 The Blessings of Onan: Austin Clarke's 'Mnemosyne Lay in Dust'
18
3 Makeshift Monologue: The Poetry of Padraic Fallon
34
4 Keeping the Colours New: Louis MacNeice in the Contemporary Poetry of Northern Ireland
56
5 Strange Letters: Reading and Writing in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry
77
6 Examples of Heaney
95
7 A Languorous Cutting Edge: Muldoon Versus Heaney?
121
8 Resident Alien: America in the Poetry of Derek Mahon
137
9 To Stop the Bleeding: The Poetry of Botany in Michael Longley
156
10 One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Ciaran Carson's The Irish for No
177
Notes
198
Bibliography of Secondary Material
211
Index
216
Page ix
Preface
This book collects a number of essays on modern Irish poetry, some of which were written for specific occasions and in response to specific invitations. I have, however, revised these, in many cases extensively, and I hope that they combine with the newly written essays to tell one interesting story about their subject. Although I want them to tell this story in the form of individual but related entities, it may provide a useful initial orientation for the reader if I review some of the preoccupations of this volume, which are also, obviously, the reasons for my continued interest in, and enthusiasm for, this work over the years.
Modern Irish poetry is the subject of a great deal of critical contention. In the argument between varieties of 'post-colonial' criticismwhich some consider to be 'nationalist' criticism under a new nameand a range of 'revisionist' positions, much of this poetry has been given an intense scrutiny, which has issued in some highly charged polemic and debate. This argument surfaces for consideration at various points in these essays, and it is itself inevitably part of the structure of reception in which any individual critic now reads this poetry. It surfaces as a political issue even in the matter of nomenclature. Some of these essays, for instance, refer to an entity I call 'the poetry of Northern Ireland', even while discussing the work of some poetsSeamus Heaney, Derek Mahonwho have explicitly repudiated the label in the interests of a commitment to an all-Ireland understanding of the island's literary culture. In my introduction to a collection of essays by various hands published in 1992, The Chosen Ground: Essays on the Contemporary Poetry of Northern Ireland, I justify the nomenclature of my sub-title by urging that this poetry has its own distinct history and context, which makes it meaningful to treat it as a separate body of work shaped by a specific and analysable set of political and cultural circumstances. This seems to me still to be the case, but in this regard there may well be a distinction to be drawn between the work of poets who continue to live in Northern Ireland, and that of
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