Poetry in Modern Ireland is the second booklet in the series published for the Cultural Relations Committee of Ireland and was issued in 1951. For this second edition, the text has been revised and slightly lengthened in order to bring the essay up to date. The aim of this series is to give a broad vivid and informed survey of Irish life and culture, past and present.
Austin Clarke is a distinguished poet in the generation that succeeded Yeats. His first book The Vengeance of Fionn was published in 1918 and Collected Poems in 1936. He has also published order books of verse, poetic plays and three novels set in medieval Ireland. He had won a high reputation as an acute literary critic, for his original experiments in poetry, and as a pioneer of verse speaking in the Irish theatre and Radio Eireann.
Poetry in Modern Ireland is the second booklet in the series published for the Cultural Relations Committee of Ireland and was issued in 1951. For this second edition, the text has been revised and slightly lengthened in order to bring the essay up to date. The aim of this series is to give a broad vivid and informed survey of Irish life and culture, past and present.
Austin Clarke is a distinguished poet in the generation that succeeded Yeats. His first book The Vengeance of Fionn was published in 1918 and Collected Poems in 1936. He has also published order books of verse, poetic plays and three novels set in medieval Ireland. He had won a high reputation as an acute literary critic, for his original experiments in poetry, and as a pioneer of verse speaking in the Irish theatre and Radio Eireann.
Poetry in Modern Ireland
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Poetry in Modern Ireland
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781781179369 |
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| Publisher: | Mercier Press |
| Publication date: | 12/06/2024 |
| Pages: | 80 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.38(d) |