Earth Voices: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry 1914-1945
From the domestic upheavals of the 1916 Rising and the War of Independence, to the thwarted idealism of the Spanish Civil War and the unrelenting casualties of two World Wars. Ireland was embroiled in a brutal succession of conflicts in the first half of the twentieth century. Gathering together over three hundred poems by writers such as Francis Ledwidge, W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney, this groundbreaking anthology records the thoughts and experiences of Ireland's poets as soldiers, observers, protestors, and mourners. From patriotism to anger, passion to compassion, hope to regret, Earth Voices Whispering embraces the complex reality of a ri…
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- ISBN: 978-0-85640-821-2
- EAN: 9780856408212
- Produktnummer: 4223735
- Verlag: Blackstaff Pr Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 412 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.2 cm x D3.5 cm 538 g
- Gewicht: 538
Über den Autor
Gerald Dawe was educated at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, and the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is the author of seven collections of poetry, including his most recent collection, Points West; a volume of collected criticism, The Proper Word; and a memoir, My Mother-City. He is also the editor of several anthologies of Irish writing, including The Younger Irish Poets. A Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, he is senior lecturer in English and director of the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing. His various awards and honours include the Macaulay Fellowship in Literature, Hawthornden and Ledig-Rowohlt writers' fellowships, and Arts Council of Ireland Literature Awards. He was the John J. Burns Visiting Professor at Boston College and was appointed to the Charles Heimbold Chair in Irish Studies at Villanova University, Philadelphia. He lives in County Dublin.
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