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1.

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

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

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

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

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5.

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

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

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

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

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

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...253 A. Hilliard Atteridge THE IRISH LANGUAGE AND LETTERS 258 Douglas Hyde, LL.D. PAGE NATIVE IRISH POETRY Georges Dottin 265 IRISH HEROIC SAGAS Eleanor Hull 270 IRISH...
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After Yeats and Joyce: Reading Modern Irish Literature (Chap. 5 "Ulsters of the Mind: The Writing of Northern Ireland") » Read Now
by Neil Corcoran. 195 pgs.

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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...
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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.
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Downstream » Read Now
by Thomas Kinsella. 66 pgs.

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

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