Book of Irish American Poetry

Description

This is the first major anthology of Irish American poetry. It breaks new ground in the field of Irish American literary scholarship by collecting for the first time the work of over two hundred Irish American poets, as well as other American poets whose work enjoins Irish American themes.

What does it mean to be an Irish American poet? The Book of Irish American Poetry answers this question by drawing together the best and most representative poetry by Irish Americans and about Irish America that has been written over the past three hundred years. The question is not merely rhetorical, claims Daniel Tobin in the introduction, for it raises the issue of a certain kind of imaginative identity that has rarely, if ever, been adequately explored. This anthology brings together exemplary poetry of the "populist period"of Irish American verse (in particular the work of poets such as John Boyle O'Reilly), with the work of those Irish Americans who have made an indelible imprint on American poetry: Robinson Jeffers, Marianne Moore, Louise Bogan, John Berryman, Thomas McGrath, John Montague, Robert Creeley, Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan, Charles Olson, Galway Kinnell, X. J. Kennedy, and Alan Dugan, among others. Finally, the anthology includes distinctive poems by contemporary Irish Americans whose work is most likely to stand the test of time: poets such as Tess Gallagher, Alice Fulton, Brendan Galvin, Marie Howe, Susan Howe, Billy Collins, Michael Ryan, Richard Kenney, and Brigit Pegeen Kelly. The poems in this collection cut across the broad spectrum of American poetry and place Irish Americans within every notable school of American poetry, from modernism to confessionalism and the Beats, from formalism to imagism, and from projectivism to the New York School and Language poets.

The Book of Irish American Poetry recovers many poets who have been forgotten and places already notable figures in American poetry within the context of a distinctively Irish American tradition. This important work of literary scholarship will dominate the field for years to come.

Sujets

• Anthologies
• América
• Brendan Galvin
• Richard Kenney
• Brigit Pegeen Kelly
• Thomas McGrath
• X. J. Kennedy
• Marie Howe
• Ted Berrigan
• John Boyle O'Reilly
• Louise Bogan
• Alice Fulton
• Michael Ryan
• Galway Kinnell
• Tess Gallagher
• Frank O'Hara
• Alan Dugan
• Robinson Jeffers
• Susan Howe
• General officer
• Ireland
• Poetry
• Billy Collins
• Stephen Ireland
• John Montague
• General
• Marianne Moore
• Charles Olson
• American
• Robert Creeley
• John Berryman

Informations

• Publié par: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date de parution: 31 mars 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9780268202354
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

Extrait

T H E B O O K O F I R I S H A M E R I C A N P O E T RY

THE BOOK OF IRISH AMERICAN from the P Eightee o nth e Cent t ury ry to the Present

edited by DANIEL TOBIN

University of Notre Dame Press

Notre Dame, Indiana

Copyright ©by University ofNotre Dame Notre Dame,Indiana www.undpress.nd.edu All Rights Reserved

Publishedin the United States ofAmerica

Library ofCongress Cataloging in-Publication Data

The book ofIrishAmerican poetry :from the eighteenth century to the presen t / edited by Daniel Tobin. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. -: ----(alk.paper) -: ---(alk.paper) .American poetry—Irish American authors..Irish Americans—Poetry. .Ireland—Poetry. I.Tobin,Daniel. . .'—dc 

∞ The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.

For Gerard Tobin, in memoriam

For Helen Tobin, in memoriam

and for

Catherine Tobin ni Donavan, and James Tobin

and

Martin Ruane, and Nora Ruane ni Hughes,

sojourners

C O N T E N T S

Introduction: Irish American Poetry and the Question of Tradition

P A R T O N E .

A F L U E N T D R I F T

G    B      (   –   ) Verses on the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America

M   C   (   –   ) (from) The Porqupiniad

J   O (   –   ) Song Composed on the Banks of Newfoundland

T    B      (  –   ) (from) Avenia

J   MH   (   –   ) The Haunts of Larne

S   H   W     (   –   ) Don Isle

H   D  T    (   –  ) I Am the Little Irish Boy

W W     (   –   ) Old Ireland

A   C  (   –   ) The Bridal Veil Snowed Under

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C     G . H     (   –   ) (from) On Raising a Monument to the Irish Legion

J  B   O ’ R   (   –   ) At Fredericksburg The Exile of the Gael Crispus Attucks

J   J     R   (   –   ) Persepolis Netchaieff

D    O ’ C     (   – ? ) Monterey The Workers

J   W      R   (   –   ) John Boyle O’Reilly

M    F     E  (   –   ) Maurice De Guérin

L    I     G    (   –   ) Gloucester Harbor An Epitaph for Wendell Phillips Two Irish Peasant Songs The Wild Ride Monochrome

K MP    C    (   –   ) The Fettered

E   A       R      (   –   ) Shadrach O’Leary A Song at Shannon’s The Dark Hills The Sheaves

P     O ’ H         (   –   ) Ochón! A Dhonncha (My Sorrow, Donncha)

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P L     D    (   –   ) John Boyle O’Reilly

. P A R T T W O .

M O D E R N T I D E

L  R   (   –   ) (from) The Ghetto Brooklyn Bridge The Edge To Larkin (from) Death Ray

R    F   (  –   ) The Cow’s in the Corn

O    S.J  G     (   –   ) To a Friend in the Co untry

W     S     (   –   ) Our Stars Come from Ireland The Irish Cliffs of Moher

P     C   (   –   ) Hawaiian A Rann of Exile

J  G   F      (   –   ) (from) Sand and Spray: A Sea Symphony (from) Elegy in a Civil War Graveyard

S     O ’ S   (   –   ) They Went Forth to Battle but They Always Fell

R      J     (   –  ) Continent’s End Shane O’Neill’s Cairn The Broadstone Antrim

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