Woven Shades of Green

An Anthology of Irish Nature Literature

Tim Wenzell

• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781684481378, 9781684481385
• eBook ISBN: 9781684481392
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

Woven Shades of Green is an annotated selection of literature from authors who focus on the natural world and the beauty of Ireland. The anthology begins with the Irish monks and their largely anonymous nature poetry, written at a time when Ireland was heavily forested. A section follows devoted to the changing Irish landscape, through both deforestation and famine, including the nature poetry of William Allingham, James Clarence Mangan, essays from Thomas Gainford and William Thackerary, and novel excerpts from William Carleton and Emily Lawless. The anthology then turns to the nature literature of the Irish Literary Revival, including Yeats and Synge, but also the poetry of many others, and an excerpt from George Moore's novel The Lake. Part four of the anthology shifts to modern Irish nature poetry, beginning with Patrick Kavanaugh, and continuing with late twentieth-century, early twenty-first-century poetry of Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, and others. Finally, the anthology concludes with a section on various Irish naturalist writers, and the unique prose and philosophical nature writing of John Moriarty, followed by a comprehensive list of environmental organizations in Ireland, which seek to preserve the natural beauty of this unique country. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide byRutgers University Press.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword by John Wilson Foster
• Preface
• Part I: Early Irish Nature Poetry
• Part II: Nature Writing and the Changing Irish Landscape
• Part III: Nature and the Irish Literary Revival
• Part IV: Modern Irish Nature Poetry
• Part V: The Literature of Irish Naturalists
• Appendix: Environmental Organizations in Ireland
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Editor