Robert F. Garrett, Modern Irish Poetry: Tradition and Continuity from Yeats to Heaney (1986)

Bibliographical Details: Robert F. Garrett, Modern Irish Poetry: Tradition and Continuity from Yeats to Heaney (California UP 1986), 322pp. CONTENTS: PREFACE [ix]; Introduction [1]; Chap. 1, Tradition and Isolation: W. B. Yeats [16]; Chap. 2, Revivalism and The Revivalists [44]; Chap. 3, “Non-Serviam”: James Joyce and Modern Irish Poetry [78]; Chap. 4, Tradition and Continuity I: Austin Clarke [103]; Tradition and Continuity II: Patrick Kavanagh [137]; Chap. 6, Poetry At Mid-Century I: Thomas Kinsella [167]; Chap. 7, Poetry At Mid-Century I: John Montague [198]; Chap. 8, The Poetry Of Commitment: Seamus Heaney [230]; Chap. 9, The Tradition Of Discontinuity: A Glance At Recent Ulster Poetry [259]. Notes [277]; Selected Bibliography [299]; Acknowledgments; INDEX.

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