"A poet at the peak of her power . . . one of Ireland's greatest and among the best writing in English anywhere."—Booklist
In The Lost Land, Eavan Boland "is intensely engaged with the ancient bardic lineage of her homeland, giving her poems an ineluctable moral gravity. . . . Her poems offer a curative gift of merciful vision to a country blinded by its own blood and pain, as her narrators wait more or less patiently in their 'difficult knowledge' for the healing of their country's wounds" (San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle).
| My Country in Darkness | 15 | |
| The Harbour | 16 | |
| Witness | 18 | |
| Daughters of Colony | 19 | |
| Imago | 21 | |
| The Scar | 22 | |
| City of Shadows | 24 | |
| Unheroic | 26 | |
| The Colonists | 28 | |
| A Dream of Colony | 30 | |
| A Habitable Grief | 32 | |
| The Mother Tongue | 33 | |
| Home | 37 | |
| The Lost Land | 40 | |
| Mother Ireland | 42 | |
| The Blossom | 44 | |
| Daughter | 46 | |
| Ceres Looks at the Morning | 49 | |
| Tree of Life | 50 | |
| Escape | 51 | |
| Dublin, 1959 | 54 | |
| Watching Old Movies When They Were New | 55 | |
| Happiness | 57 | |
| Heroic | 58 | |
| The Last Discipline | 59 | |
| The Proof That Plato Was Wrong | 61 | |
| The Necessity for Irony | 63 | |
| Formal Feeling | 65 | |
| Whose? | 67 |
Overview
"A poet at the peak of her power . . . one of Ireland's greatest and among the best writing in English anywhere."—Booklist
In The Lost Land, Eavan Boland "is intensely engaged with the ancient bardic lineage of her homeland, giving her poems an ineluctable moral gravity. . . . Her poems offer a curative gift of merciful vision to a country blinded by its own blood and pain, as her narrators wait more or less patiently in their 'difficult knowledge' for the healing of their ...