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Publication

1999 - Creighton University Press, Omaha, Neb, Nebraska

Language

English

Word Count

109,000 words, Guess

Page Count

436 pages

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and 2 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number98030500
  • Goodreads456223

Classifications

  • DDC821/.91099417
  • LCCPR8771 .G74 1999

Description

"In Facing the Music, poet and critic Eamon Grennan gives comprehensive and imaginative life to the modern Irish poetic tradition. With Yeats as his starting point, these essays constitute a suite of intimate engagements with the matter and manner of the poetic intelligence as it declares itself in poets as diverse as Kavanagh, Muldoon, Kinsella, and McGuckian, and as it is found in the work of James Joyce and John McGahern. Sympathetic readings give the reader a powerful sense of how Irish poetry in this century has kept pace with the often intractable public and private life of the island, north and south. Facing the Music reveals the workings of the intuitive spirit of poetry in the moral life of twentieth-century Ireland."--BOOK JACKET.

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