Writing Lough Derg: From William Carleton to Seamus Heaney - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Syracuse University PressISBN-13:9780815630982ISBN-10:815630980UPC:9780815630982Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:10.10 x 7.08 x 0.72 inchesWeight:1.3316Product ID:SCNMHCTGPN
Writing Lough Derg: From William Carleton to Seamus Heaney
The overarching purpose of this volume is to show how a discrete tradition of writing about Lough Derg, a pilgrimage site in northwest Ireland, helped contemporary Irish poets rescue free, metaphysical inquiry from the grip of nationalism. Linked with the supernatural pagan times, Lough Derg had by the early twentieth century become an icon of the fusion of the Catholic Church and the Irish...
Series: Irish Studies
Language:EnglishPublisher:Syracuse University PressISBN-13:9780815630982ISBN-10:815630980UPC:9780815630982Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:10.10 x 7.08 x 0.72 inchesWeight:1.3316Product ID:SCNMHCTGPN
Peggy O'Brien teaches in the English Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of the poetry collection, Sudden Thaw, and the editor of the Wake Forest Book of Irish Women's Poetry, 1969-2000. She regularly publishes essays on contemporary Irish poetry.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
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