Classical Presences in Irish Poetry after 1960 The Answering Voice /

• Main Author: Impens, Florence (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The New Antiquity
• Subjects: British literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Classical literature.; Poetry.; British and Irish Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Contemporary Literature.; Classical and Antique Literature.; Poetry and Poetics.

This book provides the first overview of classical presences in Anglophone Irish poetry after 1960. Featuring detailed studies of Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, and Eavan Boland, including close readings of key poems, it highlights the evolution of Irish poetic engagements with Greece...