The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry

By: Campbell, Matthew

Book Overview

In the last fifty years Irish poets have produced some of the most exciting poetry in contemporary literature, writing about love and sexuality, violence and history, country and city. This book, first published in 2003, provides an introduction to major figures such as Seamus Heaney, and also introduces the reader to significant precursors like Louis MacNeice or Patrick Kavanagh, and vital contemporaries and successors: among others, Thomas Kinsella,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521012457
• ISBN13: 9780521012454
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"