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Irish Poems (Borzoi Books)by Matthew Mcguire
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:In time for St. Patrick’s Day— 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 Ireland’s long and distinguished poetic tradition, ranging from the earliest Gaelic bards through Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Patrick Kavanagh, and Seamus Heaney. If it is true, as Yeats once observed, that “We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry,” then lovers of poetry can only be grateful for the dynamic and vigorous culture that has given us such a glorious literary outpouring. Synopsis: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. About the AuthorMatthew McGuire was born in Belfast and is a lecturer at the University of Glasgow. He has published widely on both Irish and Scottish literature.
Table of ContentsRELIGIOUS MATTERS
St Columbanus A Boat Song Anon. Monastic Poem Anon. Hermit’s Song Anon. Saint Patrick’s Breastplate Austin Clarke Penal Law Denis Devlin Ank’hor Vat W. R. Rodgers Lent Tom Paulin Desertmartin Peter Fallon The Herd John Hewitt from Freehold: from The Lonely Heart
GAELIC MATTERS Fear Flatha Ó Gnimh from The Passing of the Poets Mathghamlain Ó Hifearnáin My Son, Forsake Your Art Dàibhí Ó Bruadair For the Family of Cúchonnacht Ó Dálaigh Aogán Ó Rathaille The Brightest of the Bright Brian Merriman from The Midnight Court Antoine Raifterirí ‘I am Raifeirí, the poet’ Sir Samuel Ferguson Deirdre’s Lament for the Sons of Usnach William Allingham The Fairies W. B. Yeats Cuchulain’s Fight with the Sea Seàn Ó Ríordáin Claustrophobia Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Miraculous Grass
POLITICAL MATTERS Fearghal Óg MacWard from The Flight of the Earls, 1607 Anon. The Croppy Boy Anon. The Shan Van Vocht Anon. The Orange Lily James Clarence Mangan Kathaleen Ny-Houlahan Thomas Davis Lament for the Death of Eoghan Ruadh O’Neill Thomas Davis A Nation Once Again Robert Dwyer Joyce The Wind that Shakes the Barley W. B. Yeats September 1913 W. B. Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole Seamus Heaney Requiem for the Croppies Seamus Heaney Punishment Seamus Heaney from Whatever You Say Say Nothing Seamus Heaney from The Cure at Troy Derek Mahon A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford Eiléan Ní Chuilleanàn Deaths and Engines Paul Muldoon Lunch with Pancho Villa Paul Muldoon Anseo Paul Muldoon Cuba Alan Gillis Progress Macdara Woods Seconds Out PLACE MATTERS Jonathan Swift Holyhead. Sept. 25, 1727 Oliver Goldsmith from The Deserted Village Thomas Moore ‘Dear Harp of my Country!’ W. B. Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree Patrick Kavanagh Epic Louis MacNeice Belfast Louis MacNeice Dublin Peter St John The Fields of Athenry Seamus Heaney Anahorish Michael Longley The Linen Industry Derek Mahon Glengormley Thomas McCarthy The Standing Trains Ciaran Carson Belfast Confetti
EXPERIENCE MATTERS Samuel Thompson To a Hedgehog James Orr from The Irish Cottier’s Death and Burial Thomas Moore ‘’Tis the last rose of summer’ James Clarence Mangan Dark Rosaleen James Clarence Mangan The Nameless One James Clarence Mangan Good Counsel Oscar Wilde from The Ballad of Reading Gaol Francis Ledwidge June W. B. Yeats The Stolen Child W. B. Yeats Down by the Salley Gardens W. B. Yeats To a Wealthy Man Who Promised a Second Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery if It were Proved the People Wanted Pictures W. B. Yeats An Irish Airman Forsees His Death W. B. Yeats The Second Coming W. B. Yeats Sailing to Byzantium James Joyce Ecce Puer Patrick Kavanagh Memory of My Father Patrick Kavanagh Prelude Samuel Beckett Gnome Thomas Kinsella Chrysalides John Montague ‘Like dolmens round my childhood, the old people’ John Montague 11 rue Daguerre Michael Hartnet There Will be a Talking Richard Murphy Seals at High Island Louis MacNeice Snow Louis MacNeice Wolves Michael Longley In Memoriam Seamus Heaney Mid-Term Break Seamus Heaney from Clearances Seamus Heaney The Underground Eiléan Ní Chuilleanàn London Eiléan Ní Chuilleanàn So She Looked, in that Company Eavan Boland In Her Own Image Eavan Boland Night Feed Eavan Boland Nocturne Ciaran Carson Turn Again Ciaran Carson The Exiles’ Club Medbh McGuckian The ‘Singer’ Medbh McGuckian The Flower Master Medbh McGuckian The Sitting Paul Muldoon Quoof Paul Muldoon Symposium Colette Bryce The Full Indian Rope Trick Alan Gillis The Ulster Way Nick Laird Poetry
LOVE MATTERS J. M. Synge ‘Is it a month’ W. B. Yeats He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven W. B. Yeats No Second Troy Padraic Colum She Moved Through the Fair Patrick Kavanagh On Raglan Road James Simmons The Archaeologist Paul Durcan The Haulier’s Wife Meets Jesus on the Road Near Moone Louis MacNeice Mayfly Medbh McGuckian On Not Being Your Lover Sinead Morrissey & Forgive Us Our Trespasses Leontia Flynn Come Live with Me Index of First Lines Acknowledgments What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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