Out of What Began

by Gregory A. Schirmer

The first book of its kind, Out of What Began traces the development of a distinctive tradition of Irish poetry over the course of three centuries. Beginning with Jonathan Swift in the early eighteenth century and concluding with such contemporary poets as Seamus Heaney and Eavan Boland, Gregory A. Schirmer looks at the work of nearly a hundred poets. Considering the evolving political and social environments in which they lived and wrote, Schirmer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080143498X
• ISBN13: 9780801434983
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.3"