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W.B. Yeats: Images of Ireland

Alain Le Garsmeur, Barnard McCabe

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A Poet's Vision 5 out of 5 stars.
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Recently stopping at Shannon Duty-free, I found this beautiful
book. The words of Yeats and the photos of Le Garsmeur combine
to transport you to another time, another place...and where else
would you rather be than exploring that Emerald Isle with its
famous bard? Turn off the TV; put some Irish music on the stereo;
pour a glass of red wine and sail away. I guarantee you'll be
planning another trip to Ireland after this experience.

Editorial Review:

At once a marvelous visual record, a valuable introduction to the poet's work, and a stimulating companion for those who already know and love it, Images of Ireland, with the superb photographs of Alain Le Garsmeur, makes Yeats' Ireland come to life. The photos accompany a succession of key extracts from the poet's verses, plays, essays, and memoirs--passages that evoke the landscape he loved. Includes a brief chronology of Yeats' life. 44 color photographs, 53 duotones.

Medieval Irish Lyrics with The Irish Bardic Poet

James Carney

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The text and translation of early Irish poems, both secular and religious. These translations...from the point of view of a telling economy and a regard for the original image, its absolute rightness, are far and away superior to anything else I have read"" - Cork Examiner. ""Carney has thrown light where there were shadows before, and for this he is, as scholar and poet, due our gratitude"" - Dublin Magazine. Carney's noted lecture `The Irish Bardic Poet', is also included.

Medieval Irish Lyrics

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This anthology offers modern readers translations of the lyric poetry transcribed or written by mediaeval Irish monks. Irish poets were the first Europeans to write in the vernacular, though few people now read this poetry in its original. Known for her translations of the poetry of classical Greece and Egypt and of mediaeval Portugal, Barbara Hughes Fowler once again makes the poetry of another era accessible to a new generation. The 35 lyrics in this book were composed between 800 and 1200 CE, all of them anonymously, although some are attributed to legendary or historical figures who had died centuries before. Irish monks wrote them in the margins of the manuscripts they were copying, or they interpolated poems they either knew or composed into the pagan tales they were recording. Some of these poems are about what the Irish called "Tir na n'Og", the Land of the Young. This was not a place you went after death if you behaved yourself in life. It was where imaginative Irish longed to go - a paradise of lovely women, bountiful food and drink, and endless treasures of silver, gold and jewels. The monks who composed or recorded such lyrics preserved their Celtic heritage while making concessions to Christianity, as in the stanzas of "Fair Lady, Will You Go With Me?" Lyric poems, rooted so firmly in the expression of human emotion, travel well from an ancient culture to a modern one. Rendered into language and form intended for a general readership, these lyrics help to preserve an ancient and rich culture.

The AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (REISSUE)

William Butler Yeats

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Editing Yeats Poems: A Reconsideration

Richard J. Finneran

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Irish Verse, The Penguin Book of: Second Edition

Various

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This anthology of verse illustrates the origins and development of the Irish poetic tradition. From the 17th century to the present day, the poetry of Ireland is testimony to the power of the imagination to withstand systematic oppression and the forces of history. In this selection Brendan Kennelly has chosen to emphasize the fusion of Irish and Anglo-Irish poetry, with the beauty of many Gaelic poems rendered into eloquent English by Frank O'Connor. The whole spectrum of Irish verse is covered, with anonymous and lesser-known poems standing alongside those by such famous artists as Swift, Goldsmith, Yeats and, more recently, Beckett, MacNeice, Heaney and Muldoon.

Duanaire, 1600-1900

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out of print? 4 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

This is a very useful introduction to Irish poetry for people who do not have any Irish. It also has a very useful general introduction to the period and to each poem/poet; for more elaborate general reading I'd recommend O Tuama's "Repossessions: Selected Essays on the Irish Literary Heritage".

However, I can hardly believe it is out of print: I saw lots of copies for sale in bookshops in Ireland: the anthology is used for classes at University College Cork.

Tradition and Influence in Anglo-Irish Poetry

Terrence Brown

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Editorial Review:

Contents: Constitution, Language and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Irish Poetry, Robert Welch; Yeats: the Creation of an Audience, Seamus Deane; Yeats and the Re-making of Synge, Nicholas Grene; Austin Clarke: Tradition, Memory and Our Lot, Peter Denman; Louis MacNeice's Ireland, Terence Brown; Patrick Kavanagh's Parish Myth, Antoinette Quinn; An Absence of Influence: Three Modernist Poets, Gerald Dawe; Derek Mahon's Humane Perspective, Brendan Kennelly; Poetic Forms and Social Malformations, Edna Longley; The Placeless Heaven: Another Look at Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney; Index.

Sounding lines: The art of translating poetry (Doreen B. Townsend Center occasional papers)

Seamus Heaney

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The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry

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Editorial Review:

Taking the death of Yeats in 1939 as its starting point, this anthology features selections from the work of ten Irish poets, including Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley.