Notes on contributors =vii
Preface =x
Chronology =xiii
1 Ireland in poetry: 1999, 1949, 1969
MATTHEW CAMPBELL =1
2 From Irish mode to modernisation: the poetry of Austin Clarke
JOHN GOODBY =21
3 Patrick Kavanagh and antipastoral
JOHNATHAN ALLISON =42
4 Louis MacNeice: irony and responsibility
PETER McDONALD =59
5 The Irish modernists and their Legacy
ALEX DAVIS =76
6 Poetry of the 1960s: the 'Northern Ireland Renaissance'
FRAN BREARTON =94
7 Violence in Seamus Heaney's Poetry
DILLON JOHNSTON =113
8 Mahon and Longley: place and placelessness
TERENCE BROWN =133
9 Between two languages: peotry in Irish, English and Irish English
FRANK SEWELL =149
10 Boland, McGuckian, Ni Chuilleanain and the body of the nation
GUINN BATTEN =169
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Preface =x
Chronology =xiii
1 Ireland in poetry: 1999, 1949, 1969
MATTHEW CAMPBELL =1
2 From Irish mode to modernisation: the poetry of Austin Clarke
JOHN GOODBY =21
3 Patrick Kavanagh and antipastoral
JOHNATHAN ALLISON =42
4 Louis MacNeice: irony and responsibility
PETER McDONALD =59
5 The Irish modernists and their Legacy
ALEX DAVIS =76
6 Poetry of the 1960s: the 'Northern Ireland Renaissance'
FRAN BREARTON =94
7 Violence in Seamus Heaney's Poetry
DILLON JOHNSTON =113
8 Mahon and Longley: place and placelessness
TERENCE BROWN =133
9 Between two languages: peotry in Irish, English and Irish English
FRANK SEWELL =149
10 Boland, McGuckian, Ni Chuilleanain and the body of the nation
GUINN BATTEN =169
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