Irish Poetry

Read full-text books and articles on:

Irish Poetry

1.

A Book of Irish Verse
by W. B. Yeats. 176 pgs.

Book

Read Synopsis [+]

Hide Synopsis [-]

In 1895 the thirty-year-old W.B. Yeats, already established as one of Ireland's leading poets and folklorists, published this outstanding collection of Irish verse as part of his campaign to establish a tradition of Irish poetry fit for the dawn of a new age in Ireland's history. This Routledge Classics edition, complete with a specially commissioned introduction by acclaimed writer and critic John Banville, is essential reading for all who appreciate good literature.

Show Table of Contents [+]

Hide Table of Contents [-]

Title Page

Contents

Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition

Preface

Modern Irish Poetry

Old Age

Anonymous

Shule Aroon

Notes
2.

Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse, 1625-1660
by Peter Davidson. 640 pgs.

Book

Read Synopsis [+]

Hide Synopsis [-]

A completely new examination of mid-seventeenth-century verse from the British Islands, this work questions and discards the old label "Cavalier Poetry" and argues for a literary interpretation that demonstrates the verse as a canon rich in tumultuous, pluralistic, and radical writing.

Show Table of Contents [+]

Hide Table of Contents [-]

Title Page

Contents

Abbreviations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Note on the Text and Ann0tati0n

Part One Friendship, Affection, and Love

Part Two Song Texts and Poems About Music

Part Three Spiritual Poems and Prophecies

Part Four Halcyon Dayes: Peace and the Good Life

Part Five Poems of War and Revolution

Part Six Restoration Poems

Notes on the Text

Appendix 1 Index of Classical and Biblical Names

Appendix 2 Index of Contemporary Names

Appendix 3 Biographical Notes on Authors

Appendix 4 Chronology 1625-1660

Appendix 5. Index of Authors

Index of Titles and First Lines
3.

The Oxford Book of Irish Verse: XVIIth Century-XXth Century
by Donagh MacDonagh, Lennox Robinson. 343 pgs.

Book

Show Table of Contents [+]

Hide Table of Contents [-]

Title Page

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Contents

Luke Wadding: 1588-1657

Jonathan Swift: 1667-1745

John O'keefe: 1747-1833

William Drennan: 1754-1820

Richard Alfred Milliken: 1767-1815

Thomas Moore: 1779-1852

George Darley: 1795-1846

Eaton Stannard Barrett: 1786-1820

J. J. Callanan: 1795-1829

Eugene O'curry: 1796-1862

George Fox: 1809-1880

Edward Fitzgerald: 1809-1883

Thomas Davis: 1814-1845

Emily BrontË: 1818-1848

John Kells Ingram: 1823-1907

William Allingham: 1824-1889

John Todhunter: 1839-1916

Arthur O'shaughnessy: 1844-1881

Hon. Emily Lawless: 1845-1913

Augusta Gregory: 1852-1932

Fanny Parnell: 1854-1882

Oscar Wilde: 1854-1900

Percy French: 1854-1920

Kuno Meyer: 1859-1919

Eleanor Hull: 1860-1935

Katherine Tynan: 1861-1931

Douglas Hyde: 1862(c)1946

W. B. Yeats: 1865(c)1939

Herbert Trench: 1865-1923

Philip Francis Little: 1866-1926

Dora Sigerson Shorter: 1866-1917

Ethna Carbery: 1866-1902

Thomas Boyd: 1867-1927

Nora Hopper: 1871-1906

James H. Cousins: 1873-1955

Thomas Macdonagh: 1878-1916

Lord Dunsany: 1878-1957

Padraic Pearse: 1879-1916

Joseph Campbell: 1879-1941

Alice Milligan: 1880-1953

Blanaid Salkeld: 1880-

Robin Flower: 1881-1946

James Joyce: 1882-1941

Padraic Colum: 1882-

James Stephens: 1882-1941

'dermot O'byrne' (arnold Bax): 1883-1953

Francis Macnamara: 1884-1946

Joseph Plunkett: 1887-1916

Patrick Browne: 1889-

Geoffrey Taylor: 1890-1956

Helen Waddell: 1889-

Francis Ledwidge: 1891-1917

Thomas Mc Greevy: 1893-

Austin Clarke: 1896-

Monk Gibbon: 1896-

R. N. D. Wilson: 1899-1953

Patrick Macdonogh: 1902-

Earl of Longford: 1902-

Rhoda Coghill: 1903-

Frank O'connor: 1903-

Patrick Kavanagh: 1905-

C. Day-Lewis: 1905--

Bryan Guinness: 1906-

Louis Macneice: 1907-

Sheila Wingfield: 1906-

Denis Devlin: 1908-

Francis Macmanus: 1909-

Robert Farren: 1909-

Brian O Nolan: 1911--

Leslie Daiken: 1912-

Valentin Iremonger: 1918-

Mþire Macentee: 1922-

Roy Mcfadden: 1922-

Index of Authors

Index of First Lines
4.

Irish Poetry, from the English Invasion to 1798
by Rusell K. Alspach. 146 pgs.

Book

Show Table of Contents [+]

Hide Table of Contents [-]

Title Page

Preface

Contents

Part I: The Poetry

Introduction

2: Gaelic or English?

3: From the Invasion to 1400

4: The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

5: The Seventeenth Century: Fingal, Forth, and Bargy

6: From 1700 to 1798

Part II: The Matter of Ireland

I: Introduction

2: The Beginnings: Campion to Walsh

3: Molyneux, Swift, and Maccurtin

4: Keating and Dermod O'Connor

5: After Keating

6: Some Early Translators of Gaelic Poetry

7: Charlotte Brooke

8: To the Nineteenth Century

Bibliography

Index
5.

The Renaissance of Irish Poetry: 1880-1930
by David Morton. 258 pgs.

Book

Show Table of Contents [+]

Hide Table of Contents [-]

Title Page

INTRODUCTION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTENTS

I the Idiom

Ii the Natural World and Its Creatures

Iii Extravaganzas and Grotesqueries

Iv Lamentation and the Ever-Living Past

V the Christian Story and Its Figures

Vi the FaËries of Ireland
6.

The First World War in Irish Poetry
by Jim Haughey. 309 pgs.

Book

Show Table of Contents [+]

Hide Table of Contents [-]

Title Page

The First World War in Irish Poetry

Contents

Acknowledgments

1: Introduction

2: Myth and Memory

3: The Soldier Poets

4: The Home Front

5: Postwar Reﬂections

6: Modern Memory

7: Conclusion

Notes

Works Cited

Index
7.

The Dual Tradition: An Essay on Poetry and Politics in Ireland
by Thomas Kinsella. 129 pgs.

Book

Show Table of Contents [+]

Hide Table of Contents [-]

Title Page

The Dual Tradition

Contents

Introduction

I: Strangers

Ii: Colonials and Dispossessed

Iii: the Nineteenth Century

Iv: Yeats and Joyce

V: Modern Irish Poetry

Vi: Politics of the Dual Tradition
8.

The Politics of Irish Literature: From Thomas Davis to W. B. Yeats (Chap. 1 "History and Poetry: Some Irish Paradoxes")
by Malcolm Brown. 431 pgs.

Book

Show Table of Contents [+]

Hide Table of Contents [-]

Title Page

The Politics of Irish Literature

Preface

Contents

Part I the Peculiar Irish Setting

Chapter I History and Poetry: Some Irish Paradoxes

Chapter 2 Thomas Davis' Ireland

Part II Young Ireland

Chapter 3 O'Connell and Davis in Partnership

Chapter 4 the Nation's First Year

Chapter 5 the Retreat from Clontarf

Chapter 6 Black '47

Chapter 7 '48 and Insurrection

Chapter 8 Beside the Sickbed: Carlyle, Duffy, Dr. Cullen

Chapter 9 John Mitchel After '48

Part III Fenianism

Chapter 10 Mr. Shook

Chapter II Fenianism Mobilizes

Chapter 12 O'Leary and the Irish People

Chapter 13 "The Year for Action"

Chapter 14 the Agony of Fenianism

Part IV Home Rule

Chapter 15 the Ballot Box Once More: Isaac Butt

Chapter 16 Parnell and Davitt

Chapter 17 the Land War in Mayo

Chapter 18 After Kilmainham: Bakhuninism in Phoenix Park

Chapter 19 After Kilmainham: Davitt and Standish O'Grady Take Stock

Chapter 20 the Irish Party in Maneuver

Chapter 21 Enter: W. B. Yeats

Chapter 22 Catastrophe

Chapter 23 Poetry Defends the Gap: Yeats and Hyde

Chapter 24 Literary Parnellism

Notes

Bibliographical Note

Index
9.

The Glories of Ireland ("Native Irish Poetry" begins on p. 265)
by Joseph Dunn, P. J. Lennox. 357 pgs.

Show Table of Contents [+]

Hide Table of Contents [-]

Title Page

Preface

Contents

The Romance of Irish History

The Island of Saints and Scholars

Irish Monks in Europe

The Irish and the Sea

Irish Love of Learning

Irish Men of Science

Law in Ireland

Irish Music

Irish Metal Work

Irish Manuscripts

The Ruins of Ireland

Modern Irish Art

Ireland at Play

The Fighting Race

The Sorrows of Ireland

Irish Leaders

Irish Heroines

Irish Nationality

Famous Irish Societies

The Irish in the United States

The Irish in Canada

The Irish in South America

The Irish in Australasia

The Irish in South Africa

Irish Language and Letters

Native Irish Poetry

Irish Heroic Sagas

Irish Precursors of Dante

Irish Influence on English LIterature

Irish Folklore

Irish Wit and Humor

The Irish Theatre

Irish Journalists

The Irish LIterary Revival

Irish Writers of English
10.

After Yeats and Joyce: Reading Modern Irish Literature (Chap. 5 "Ulsters of the Mind: The Writing of Northern Ireland")
by Neil Corcoran. 195 pgs.

Book

Read Synopsis [+]

Hide Synopsis [-]

Irish literature after Yeats and Joyce, from the 1920s onwards, includes texts which have been the subject of much contention. For a start how should Irish literature be defined: as works which have been written in Irish or as works written in Englsih by the Irish? It is a period in which ideas of Ireland--of people, community, and nation--have been both created and reflected, and in which conceptions of a distinct Irish identity have been articulated, defended, and challenged; a period which has its origins in a time of intense political turmoil. `after Yeats and Joyce' also suggests the immense influence of these two writers on the style, stances, and preoccupations of twentieth-century Irish literature. Neil Corcoran focuses his chapter on various themes such as `the Big House', the rural and provincial, with reference to authors from Kinsella and Beckett to William Trevor, Seamus Heaney, and Mary Lavin, providing a lucid and far-reaching introduction to modern Irish writing.

Show Table of Contents [+]

Hide Table of Contents [-]

Title Page

Preface

Contents

1: Translations

2: A Slight Inflection: Representations of the Big House

3: Lyrical Fields and Featherbeds: Representations of the Rural and the Provincial

4: Vews of Dublin

5: Ulsters of the Mind: The Writing of Northern Ireland

Notes

Further Reading

Index
11.

Downstream
by Thomas Kinsella. 66 pgs.

Book

Show Table of Contents [+]

Hide Table of Contents [-]

Title Page

Contents

I

II: Moralities

III

IV

Acknowledgements
12.

The Winding Stair and Other Poems
by W. B. Yeats. 101 pgs.

Book

Show Table of Contents [+]

Hide Table of Contents [-]

Title Page

Contents

In Memory of Eva Gore- Booth and Con Markiewicz

Death

A Dialogue of Self And Soul

Self and Soul

Blood and the Moon

Oil and Blood

Veronica's Napkin

Symbols

Spilt Milk

The Nineteenth Century and After

Statistics

Three Movements

The Seven Sages

The Crazed Moon

Coole Park, 1929

Coole and Ballylee, 1931

For Anne Gregory

Swift's Epitaph

At Algeciras--A Meditation Upon Death

The Choice

Mohini Chatterjee

Byzantium

The Mother of God

Vacillation

Quarrel in Old Age

The Results of Thought

Gratitude to The Unknown Instructors

Remorse For Intemperate Speech

Stream and Sun At Glendalough

Words for Music Perhaps

A Woman Young and Old

Notes

Search the entire Questia Library for more on: Irish Poetry

View all books and articles on Irish poetry

Irish Poetry - Related Topics

Visitors researching Irish poetry also searched on:

Get full-text access to all publications in this Research Pack on Irish poetry

Only
$9.95

30-Day access
(One-time charge)

Search the Library

Related Topics

Click here for more books and articles on Irish poetry

Sponsored Links

Read more than 5,000 classic books FREE!

Back to top

Newsletter | Privacy Policy | User Agreements | Questia School | About Us | Advertise with Us | Contact | Tools for Webmasters | FREE BOOKS

© 2009 - Questia Media America, Inc. All rights reserved. All service marks and trademarks are property of
Questia Media and its affiliates. Any advertising or navigational links included on this site are not necessarily
endorsed by the publishers or content providers whose materials appear on this site.