In this avowedly interpretative anthology of Irish verse, W.J. McCormack traces creativity of contradiction through several centuries, finding poets productively at odds with their forebears, their contemporaries, even with themselves. From Yeats's tragic laughter to the quieter ironies of Seamus Heaney, from the rambunctious narratives of Merriman and Joyce to the pathos of Wilde's Reading Gaol, the same sparring spirit is found.
W.J. McCormack is Professor of Literary History at the University of London and head of the English Department at Goldsmith's College.
"McCormack's painstaking selection does justice to the panoply of Irish poets [and] does indeed reflect a national history, messy and complex, strident and joyful in the most tragic of circumstances." --Kirkus Reviews "Dr. McCormack's anthology is must reading for anyone who delights in the imaginative mind of the poet." -Council on National Literatures
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