Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511921810

The comparative study of the literatures of Ireland and Scotland has emerged as a distinct and buoyant field in recent years. This collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparison of modern Irish and Scottish poetry, featuring close readings of texts within broad historical and political contextualisation. Playing on influences, crossovers, connections, disconnections and differences, the 'affinities' and 'opposites' traced in this book cross both Irish and Scottish poetry in many directions. Contributors include major scholars of the new 'archipelagic' approach, as well as leading Irish and Scottish poets providing important insights into current creative practice. Poets discussed include W. B. Yeats, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, Louis MacNeice, Edwin Morgan, Douglas Dunn, Seamus Heaney, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala ni Dhomhnaill, Don Paterson and Kathleen Jamie. This book is a major contribution to our understanding of poetry from these islands in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

‘An insightful and informative survey of poetry and poets in both countries.’

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi
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Contents
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List of contributors
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Acknowledgements
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- By Peter Mackay, None, Edna Longley, Queen's University Belfast, Fran Brearton, Queen's University Belfast
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Introduction
pp 1-19
- By Edna Longley, Queen's University Belfast
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1 - Swordsmen: W. B. Yeats and Hugh MacDiarmid
pp 20-38
- By Patrick Crotty, University of Aberdeen
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2 - Tradition and the individual editor: Professor Grierson, modernism and national poetics
pp 39-57
- By Cairns Craig, University of Aberdeen
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3 - Louis MacNeice among the islands
pp 58-86
- By John Kerrigan, University of Cambridge
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4 - Townland, desert, cave: Irish and Scottish Second World War poetry
pp 87-101
- By Peter Mackay, None
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5 - Affinities in time and space: reading the Gaelic poetry of Ireland and Scotland
pp 102-118
- By Máire Ní Annracháin, University College Dublin
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6 - Contemporary affinities
pp 119-130
- By Douglas Dunn, University of St Andrews
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7 - The Classics in modern Scottish and Irish poetry
pp 131-146
- By Robert Crawford, University of St Andrews
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8 - Translating Beowulf: Edwin Morgan and Seamus Heaney
pp 147-160
- By Hugh Magennis, Queen's University Belfast
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9 - Reading in the gutters
pp 161-175
- By Eric Falci, University of California, Berkeley
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10 - ‘What matters is the yeast’: ‘foreignising’ Gaelic poetry
pp 176-190
- By Christopher Whyte
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11 - Outside English: Irish and Scottish poets in the East
pp 191-203
- By Justin Quinn, Charles University, Prague
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12 - Names for nameless things: the poetics of place names
pp 204-221
- By Alan Gillis, University of Edinburgh
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13 - Desire lines: mapping the city in contemporary Belfast and Glasgow poetry
pp 222-237
- By Aaron Kelly, University of Edinburgh
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14 - ‘The ugly burds without wings’?: reactions to tradition since the 1960s
pp 238-250
- By Eleanor Bell, University of Strathclyde
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15 - ‘And cannot say / and cannot say’: Richard Price, Randolph Healy and the dialogue of the deaf
pp 251-264
- By David Wheatley, University of Hull
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16 - On ‘The Friendship of Young Poets’: Douglas Dunn, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon
pp 265-279
- By Fran Brearton, Queen's University Belfast
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17 - ‘No misprints in this work’: the poetic ‘translations’ of Medbh McGuckian and Frank Kuppner
pp 280-293
- By Leontia Flynn, Queen's University Belfast
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18 - Phoenix or dead crow? Irish and Scottish poetry magazines, 1945–2000
pp 294-312
- By Edna Longley, Queen's University Belfast
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19 - Outwith the Pale: Irish–Scottish studies as an act of translation
pp 313-327
- By Michael Brown, University of Aberdeen
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Guide to further reading
pp 328-330
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Index
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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of contributors
pp ix-ix

Acknowledgements
pp x-x

Introduction
pp 1-19

1 - Swordsmen: W. B. Yeats and Hugh MacDiarmid
pp 20-38

2 - Tradition and the individual editor: Professor Grierson, modernism and national poetics
pp 39-57

3 - Louis MacNeice among the islands
pp 58-86

4 - Townland, desert, cave: Irish and Scottish Second World War poetry
pp 87-101

5 - Affinities in time and space: reading the Gaelic poetry of Ireland and Scotland
pp 102-118

6 - Contemporary affinities
pp 119-130

7 - The Classics in modern Scottish and Irish poetry
pp 131-146

8 - Translating Beowulf: Edwin Morgan and Seamus Heaney
pp 147-160

9 - Reading in the gutters
pp 161-175

10 - ‘What matters is the yeast’: ‘foreignising’ Gaelic poetry
pp 176-190

11 - Outside English: Irish and Scottish poets in the East
pp 191-203

12 - Names for nameless things: the poetics of place names
pp 204-221

13 - Desire lines: mapping the city in contemporary Belfast and Glasgow poetry
pp 222-237

14 - ‘The ugly burds without wings’?: reactions to tradition since the 1960s
pp 238-250

15 - ‘And cannot say / and cannot say’: Richard Price, Randolph Healy and the dialogue of the deaf
pp 251-264

16 - On ‘The Friendship of Young Poets’: Douglas Dunn, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon
pp 265-279

17 - ‘No misprints in this work’: the poetic ‘translations’ of Medbh McGuckian and Frank Kuppner
pp 280-293

18 - Phoenix or dead crow? Irish and Scottish poetry magazines, 1945–2000
pp 294-312

19 - Outwith the Pale: Irish–Scottish studies as an act of translation
pp 313-327

Guide to further reading
pp 328-330

Index
pp 331-336

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