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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451305503321

Autore

Buxton Rachel <1975->

Titolo

Robert Frost and Northern Irish poetry [[electronic resource] /] / Rachel Buxton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004

ISBN

1-280-75667-5

0-19-151471-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Collana

Oxford English monographs

Disciplina

821/.914099417

Soggetti

English poetry - Irish authors - History and criticism

English poetry - Irish authors - American influences

Electronic books.

Northern Ireland Intellectual life

Northern Ireland In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-213) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword; Contents; Abbreviations; I. ROBERT FROST AND NORTHERN IRISH POETRY; II. 'THE ACOUSTIC OF FROST'-FROST AND HEANEY; III. 'THE FROST HAS DESIGNS ON IT'-FROST AND MULDOON; Afterword: Speaking of Contraries; Appendix A: Paul Muldoon, 'Considering the Islands'; Appendix B: Seamus Heaney, 'Obituary'; Appendix C: Paul Muldoon, 'The Sharping Stone'; Appendix D: Paul Muldoon, 'The Swing'; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Robert Frost and Northern Irish Poetry is a pioneering study of the politics of Irish-American literary connections and exchanges, offering a much-needed assessment of Frost's significance for Northern Irish poetry of the past half-century. Drawing upon a diverse range of previously unpublished archival sources, Buxton takes as her particular focus the triangular dynamic of Frost, Heaney, and Muldoon, exploring the differing strengths which each Irish poet finds in Frost's work. This appraisal of Frost in a non-American context not only enables a fuller appreciation of Heaney's and Muldoon's p