Irish Poetry After Joyce

by Dillon Johnston

Book Overview

William Butler Yeats has been long considered the standard by which all Irish poetry is judged. Even the best of his immediate successors could not be liberated from Yeats's influence. In a new edition of his groundbreaking work, Dillon Johnston elaborates on the premise that many of Ireland's new voices do not follow the Yeatsian model - the singular lyric or odic voice; rather, they rely on Joyce for an interplay of dramatic voices. Johnston describes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026801163X
• ISBN13: 9780268011635
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.