The Five Quintets

by Micheal O'Siadhail

Book Overview

The Five Quintets is both poetry and cultural history. It offers a sustained reflection on modernity--people and movements--in poetic meter. Just as Dante, in his Divine Comedy, summed up the Middle Ages on the cusp of modernity, The Five Quintets takes stock of a late modern world on the cusp of the first-ever global century.

Celebrated Irish poet Micheal O'Siadhail structures his Quintets to echo the Comedy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1481307096
• ISBN13: 9781481307093
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Length: 381 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.3" x 8.6"