Overview
- Invites scholars to reappraise the ways in which the dynamics of the contemporary Irish poetic scene have often been read
- Places close readings of key poems within the broader context of the poets’ careers
- Draws attention to lesser-known creative engagements with Greek and Latin literatures in its study of Eavan Boland and Derek Mahon
Part of the book series: The New Antiquity (NANT)
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“Examining how Heaney, Longley, Mahon, Boland, and other Irish writers have enriched their poems with the classics, Florence Impens traces their vitally transhistorical and transnational dialogue with antiquity. Judicious and precise, engaging and lucid, her book illuminates the fascinatingly various purposes served by the classics: to claim literary authority, bridge sectarian divisions, ennoble marginality, and renegotiate Irish identity. This excellent study will delight and instruct readers of contemporary Irish poetry.” (Jahan Ramazani, University of Virginia, USA)
“This is a revelatory guide to the animating and central presence of European classical literature in contemporary Irish poetry. With lightly-worn scholarship and critical flair, Florence Impens brilliantly documents the protean ways Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon and Eavan Boland mine Greek and Roman poetry to address the urgencies of personal and public life today. The result is a riveting and informative study of tradition and the individual talent in modern Ireland.” (Hugh Haughton, University of York, UK)
“Providing a comprehensive assessment of the relationship between the classics and contemporary Irish poetry, this is a very important piece of scholarship that will no doubt be used as a reference work by scholars for many years to come.” (Clíona Ní Ríordáin, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, France)
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Book Title: Classical Presences in Irish Poetry after 1960
Book Subtitle: The Answering Voice
Authors: Florence Impens
Series Title: The New Antiquity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68231-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-68230-3Published: 29 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88567-4Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-68231-0Published: 02 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-3017
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3025
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 219
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Contemporary Literature, Classical and Antique Literature, Poetry and Poetics