This anthology presents the Irish tradition as a unity: verse in Irish and English, usually regarded separately, are shown as elements in a shared and often painful history. The selection is in three parts: it begins with earliest, pre-Christian times and the first poetry in English from the fourteenth century; moves on to Irish bardic poetry and English poetry in the era of Swift and Goldsmith; and closes with nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets, from Davis, Mangan, Yeats, and Ferguson to Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanagh, and Seamus Heaney.
| ISBN: | 9780192801920 |
| Publication date: | 19th July 2001 |
| Author: | Thomas Kinsella |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP OXFORD |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 423 pages |
| Series: | Oxford Books of Verse |
| Genres: |
Poetry anthologies (various poets) Anthologies: general Literary studies: poetry and poets |