Starting Lines in Scottish, Irish, and English Poetry: From Burns to Heaney

by Fiona Stafford

Are literary ideas of originality and imitation, allusion and influence inherently political if the poems emerge from different sides of a border or of a colonial relationship? Taking as a framework the history of relations between Ireland, England, and Scotland since the 1707 Union, the book explores this question through a series of close readings.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198186371
• ISBN13: 9780198186373
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.8"