{"product_id":"irish-poetry-w-j-mccormack-9780814756287","title":"Irish Poetry: An Interpretive Anthology from Before Swift to Yeats and After","description":"\u003cp\u003eDebates about Irish culture have long been plagued by neat oppositions between conquering England and colonized Erin, Protestant and Catholic, stolid Saxon and dreamy Celt. Yet the greatest Irish poets have scorned such simplicities.\u003cbr\u003e In this avowedly interpretative anthology of Irish verse, W.J. McCormack traces creativity of contradiction through several centuries, finding poets productively at odds with their forebears, their contemporaries--even with themselves. From Yeats's tragic laughter to the quieter ironies of Seamus Heaney, from the rambunctious narratives of Merriman and Joyce to the pathos of Wilde's \u003ci\u003eReading Gaol\u003c\/i\u003e, the same sparring spirit is found.\u003cbr\u003e This exciting anthology brings together the very best in Irish poetry to reveal a broad yet sharply-focused tradition of diversity and dissidence. W.J. McCormack's compelling collection provokes a wide-ranging reconsideration of one of the world's richest literatures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e W. J. McCormack\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081475628X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814756287\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 355\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.52h x 6.49w x 1.36d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2000 pg. 603\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/24\/2000 pg. 84","brand":"W. J. McCormack","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48457729376511,"sku":"9780814756287","price":107.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_67a786d3-b9c1-402a-a5fb-e97da9b2b594.jpg?v=1777400691","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/irish-poetry-w-j-mccormack-9780814756287","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}