Robert Lowell and Irish Poetry
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- ISBN 9781788745093
- Weight: 411g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Feb 2020
- Publisher: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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This is the first book to provide comprehensive treatment of Robert Lowell’s engagements with Irish poetry. Including original contributions by leading and emerging scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, the essays in the volume explore topics such as Lowell and W.B. Yeats, Louis MacNeice, and Denis Devlin, as well as the ways in which the American poet’s work was read by later Irish poets Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Paul Durcan, Leontia Flynn, and others. In addition to exploring the ways that several poets have engaged with Lowell, the book encompasses a wide range of thematic concerns, from Lowell and ecology to the politics of identification. The book also includes essays on aspects of Lowell’s engagements with Irish-American contexts, as well as contributions by contemporary poets Gerald Dawe, Paul Muldoon and Julie O’Callaghan. Robert Lowell and Irish Poetry concludes with a previously unpublished introduction Seamus Heaney gave to a reading by Lowell in Ireland in 1975, which is followed by a reminiscence by Marie Heaney.
Eve Cobain received a PhD from Trinity College Dublin in 2017. Her doctoral research, which was funded by the Irish Research Council, explored the signi_ cance of music in the poetry of John Berryman. She has been an Occasional Lecturer in the School of English, Trinity College and an Early Career Researcher based at the Trinity Long Room Hub. She has published essays on John Berryman, Richard Murphy, and other aspects of modern and contemporary poetry.
Philip Coleman is an Associate Professor in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin, where he is also a Fellow. His most recent publications include John Berryman’s Public Vision (2014) and Berryman’s Fate: A Centenary Celebration in Verse (2014). He has also co-edited John Berryman: Centenary Essays (2017) and George Saunders: Critical Essays (2017). With Calista McRae, he is co-editing The Selected Letters of John Berryman.
