Irish Classics

by Declan Kiberd

Book Overview

A celebration of the tenacious life of the enduring Irish classics, this book by one of Irish writing's most eloquent readers offers a brilliant and accessible survey of the greatest works since 1600 in Gaelic and English, which together have shaped one of the world's most original literary cultures.

In the course of his discussion of the great seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Gaelic poems of dispossession, and of later work in that language...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674010086
• ISBN13: 9780674010086
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"