Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966–2010

Eric Falci

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781107018136
• eBook ISBN: 9781139512435
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

In this book, Eric Falci reshapes the story of Irish poetry since the 1960s. He shows how polemical arguments concerning the role of poetry in 1960s Ireland evolve into a set of formal and compositional strategies for emerging Irish poets in the mid 1970s and beyond. His study presents a cohesive picture of the relationship between Northern Irish poetry from the Republic of Ireland since World War II and traces the lineage of lyric practice from a unique historical perspective. At the same time, it recontextualizes late twentieth-century Irish poetry within the long Irish poetic tradition, places Irish writing more accurately within the field of postwar Anglophone poetry and offers a new account of lyric's critical capacities. Of interest to Irish studies and twentieth-century poetry specialists, this book provides a much-needed guide to some of the most inventive and notable poetry written in the past forty years.

Table of contents

• Cover
• CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN IRISH POETRY, 1966–2010
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• CHAPTER 1: Refashioning Irish poetry, 1966–1974
• CHAPTER 2: Triangular muldoon
• CHAPTER 3: McGuckian’s histories
• CHAPTER 4: Carson’s city
• CHAPTER 5: Ní Dhomhnaill along the spine
• Conclusion: “Recent Irish Poetry”
• Notes
• Index