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Anthony Bradley, edited, introduction, & notes
Contemporary Irish Poetry, New and Revised editon
$27.50, £16.95 paperback
978-0-520-05874-3
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420 pages,
November 1988, Not available in British Commonwealth; Include Canada
Categories: Literary Studies; English Literature; Poetry
November 1988, Not available in British Commonwealth; Include Canada
Categories: Literary Studies; English Literature; Poetry
"Anthony Bradley has edited [this anthology] with care and good sense. . . . The book is inclusive, the selections first rate, the biographical and textual notes brief and useful—a truly excellent anthology."—Thomas Parkinson, The Georgia Review
"Ireland's many fine poets in the shadow of Yeats have until now not been accorded appropriate recognition in the U. S. . . .Bradley's handsome, well-conceived anthology . . .is a much needed one."—Shaun O'Connell, Boston Globe
"Ireland's many fine poets in the shadow of Yeats have until now not been accorded appropriate recognition in the U. S. . . .Bradley's handsome, well-conceived anthology . . .is a much needed one."—Shaun O'Connell, Boston Globe
The poems featured in this anthology are quintessentially human documents informed by humor, compassion, and a joyful and visionary element—an impulse to praise what is really life and to protect it from the naysayers—as well as by a salutary realism and irony.
This revised edition features the work of Tom Paulin, Medbh McGuckian, Paul Durcan, Aidan Carl Mathews, Anne Hartigan, Nuala ní Dhomhnaill, and others who were not included in the first edition. Moreover, the selections from those poets featured in the first edition have, in many cases, been extensively changed and updated. In total, more than half the poems published in this second edition did not appear in the first.
This revised edition features the work of Tom Paulin, Medbh McGuckian, Paul Durcan, Aidan Carl Mathews, Anne Hartigan, Nuala ní Dhomhnaill, and others who were not included in the first edition. Moreover, the selections from those poets featured in the first edition have, in many cases, been extensively changed and updated. In total, more than half the poems published in this second edition did not appear in the first.