Author: John Montague
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571112180
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Faber Book of Irish Verse
Author: John Montague
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571112180
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571112180
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A Book of Irish Verse
Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse
Author: Thomas Kinsella
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780192801920
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
This magnificent 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 begins in pre-Christian times and closes with nineteenth- and twentieth-century verse. Poets featured include Swift, Goldsmith, W. B. Yeats, Patrick Kavanagh, and Seamus Heaney.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780192801920
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
This magnificent 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 begins in pre-Christian times and closes with nineteenth- and twentieth-century verse. Poets featured include Swift, Goldsmith, W. B. Yeats, Patrick Kavanagh, and Seamus Heaney.
The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry
Author: Patrick Crotty
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241387981
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry features the work of the greatest Irish poets, from the monks of the ancient monasteries to the Nobel laureates W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney, from Jonathan Swift and Oliver Goldsmith to Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, along with a profusion of lyrics, love poems, satires, ballads and songs. Reflecting Ireland's complex past and lively present, this collection of Irish verse is an indispensable guide to the history, culture and romance of one of Europe's oldest civilizations. In his introduction to this new Penguin Classics edition, Patrick Crotty explores the traditions of poetry in Ireland, and relates the rich variety of the poems to the long and frequently troubled history of the island.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241387981
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry features the work of the greatest Irish poets, from the monks of the ancient monasteries to the Nobel laureates W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney, from Jonathan Swift and Oliver Goldsmith to Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, along with a profusion of lyrics, love poems, satires, ballads and songs. Reflecting Ireland's complex past and lively present, this collection of Irish verse is an indispensable guide to the history, culture and romance of one of Europe's oldest civilizations. In his introduction to this new Penguin Classics edition, Patrick Crotty explores the traditions of poetry in Ireland, and relates the rich variety of the poems to the long and frequently troubled history of the island.
The Oxford Book of Irish Verse
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Irish Poems
Author: Matthew McGuire
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 030759498X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Irish Poems is a treasury of poetry from the Emerald Isle, stretching back fourteen centuries. From the romantic ballad to the rebel song, from devotional Christian verse to revivals of ancient Celtic myth, poetry has long been Ireland’s most eloquent response to its turbulent and colorful history. Irish Poems gives us a dazzling selection from a long and distinguished poetic tradition, ranging from the earliest Gaelic bards up to the present. Organized around such themes as politics, religion, Gaelic culture, the Irish landscape, and matters of the heart, the poems collected here come from a wide range of writers old and new, including such literary giants as Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge, Samuel Beckett, Louis MacNeice, Patrick Kavanagh, Paul Muldoon, Evan Boland, Seamus Heaney, and many more.
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 030759498X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Irish Poems is a treasury of poetry from the Emerald Isle, stretching back fourteen centuries. From the romantic ballad to the rebel song, from devotional Christian verse to revivals of ancient Celtic myth, poetry has long been Ireland’s most eloquent response to its turbulent and colorful history. Irish Poems gives us a dazzling selection from a long and distinguished poetic tradition, ranging from the earliest Gaelic bards up to the present. Organized around such themes as politics, religion, Gaelic culture, the Irish landscape, and matters of the heart, the poems collected here come from a wide range of writers old and new, including such literary giants as Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge, Samuel Beckett, Louis MacNeice, Patrick Kavanagh, Paul Muldoon, Evan Boland, Seamus Heaney, and many more.
The Poem-book of the Gael
Author: Eleanor Hull
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
100 Favorite English and Irish Poems
Author: Clarence C. Strowbridge
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486113280
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Compact anthology features many of the best works by 59 poets writing in English, among them Edmund Spenser, Christina Rossetti, John Milton, Robert Burns, and William Blake.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486113280
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Compact anthology features many of the best works by 59 poets writing in English, among them Edmund Spenser, Christina Rossetti, John Milton, Robert Burns, and William Blake.
Irish Verse: An Anthology
Author: Bob Blaisdell
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486111687
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Works by more than 60 Irish poets, from 18th century to modern times, include poems by Swift, Goldsmith, Moore; Allingham, Yeats, Joyce; plus verses by lesser-known poets.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486111687
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Works by more than 60 Irish poets, from 18th century to modern times, include poems by Swift, Goldsmith, Moore; Allingham, Yeats, Joyce; plus verses by lesser-known poets.
The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories
Author: William Trevor
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780199583140
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ireland has always been a nation of story-tellers. This magnificent anthology chronicles the development of a rich literary tradition, from the earliest folk-tales to James Joyce, Liam O'Flaherty, and the rising stars of the new generation.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780199583140
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ireland has always been a nation of story-tellers. This magnificent anthology chronicles the development of a rich literary tradition, from the earliest folk-tales to James Joyce, Liam O'Flaherty, and the rising stars of the new generation.