Irish Poetry under the Union, 1801–1924
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- Author: Matthew Campbell
- Date Published: November 2013
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107044845
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This book retells the story of Irish poetry written in English between the union of Britain and Ireland in 1801 and the early years of the Irish Free State. Through careful poetic and historical analysis, Matthew Campbell offers ways to read that poetry as ruptured, musical, translated and new. The book starts with the Romantic songs and parodies of nationalist and unionist writers – Moore, Mahony, Ferguson and Mangan – in times of defeat, resurgence and famine. It continues through a discussion of English Victorian poets such as Tennyson, Arnold and Hopkins, who wrote Irish poems as the British Empire unraveled. Campbell's treatment ends with Yeats, seeking a new poetry emerging from under union in times of violence and civil war. The book offers both a literary history of nineteenth-century Irish poetry and a way of reading it for scholars of Irish studies as well as Romantic and Victorian literature.
Read more- Speaks to readers of English and Irish poetry
- Offers a historically inflected theory of poetry, reading the emergent Irish poem as synthetic form
- A book which can be read by Romantic, Victorian and modern scholarly communities
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- Date Published: November 2013
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107044845
- length: 258 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.5kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
1. 'The synthetic Irish thing'
2. The ruptured ear: Irish accent, English poetry
3. Moore, Mahony and the transmigration of intellect
4. Samuel Ferguson's maudlin jumble
5. Mangan's golden years
6. Letting the past be past: English poet and Irish poem
7. 'Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves': Hopkins, Yeats and the unraveling of British poetry
8. Violence and measure: Yeats after union.
