Louis MacNeice and the Irish Poetry of his Time
«Tom Walker's study is a much-needed and meticulously referenced work on this vital poet, playwright, and broadcaster. It sets MacNeice's work productively in dialogue with both the great W.B. Yeats and lesser-known poets, and is essential for anyone captivated by this most incorrigibly plural of writers.»
Caroline Magennis, Times Higher Education Books of 2015
This study focuses on Louis MacNeice's creative and critical engagement with other Irish poets during his lifetime. It draws on extensive archival research to uncover the previously unrecognised extent of the poet's contact with Irish literary mores and networks. Les mer
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cultural and geographical attachment at large in Irish poetry and criticism during the period. These comparative readings are framed by accounts of MacNeice's complex relationship with the oeuvre of W.B. Yeats, which forms a meta-narrative to MacNeice's broader engagement with Irish poetry. Yeats is shown
to have been MacNeice's contemporary in the 1930s, reading and reacting to the younger poet's work, just as MacNeice read and reacted to the older poet's work. But the ongoing challenge of the intellectual and formal complexity of Yeats's poetry also provided a means through which MacNeice, across his whole career, dialectically developed various modes through which to confront modernity's cultural, political and philosophical challenges. This book offers new and revisionary perspectives on
MacNeice's work and its relationship to Ireland's literary traditions, as well as making an innovative contribution to the history of Irish literature and anglophone poetry in the twentieth century.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780198745150
- Utgivelsesår
- 2015
- Format
- 22 x 15 cm
- Priser
- Winner of the 2015 Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature null
Anmeldelser
«Tom Walker's study is a much-needed and meticulously referenced work on this vital poet, playwright, and broadcaster. It sets MacNeice's work productively in dialogue with both the great W.B. Yeats and lesser-known poets, and is essential for anyone captivated by this most incorrigibly plural of writers.»
Caroline Magennis, Times Higher Education Books of 2015
«Tom Walker's new study, Louis MacNeice and the Irish Poetry of his Time, adds much to this story ... Walker reveals a new MacNeice»
Justin Quinn, Times Literary Supplement
«Walker offers ground-breaking research on this critically overlooked aspect of MacNeice's work»
Forum for Modern Language Studies
«a rich contribution to the scholarship on MacNeice and on twentieth-century Irish letters.»
James Underwood, Modern Language Review