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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824916503321

Autore

Randolph Jody Allen

Titolo

Eavan Boland / / Jody Allen Randolph

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Bucknell University Press : , : Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-61148-714-5

1-61148-537-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 pages)

Collana

Contemporary Irish Writers

Disciplina

821/.914

Soggetti

English literature - Women authors - History and criticism

English literature - Irish authors - History and criticism

English literature - Women authors

English literature - Irish authors

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The poetics of origin. Beginnings; The muse mother -- The nexus of influence. Claims of belonging; The dour line -- From patria to matria. The first draft; In her own image; Night feed -- Out of myth into history. The journey; Outside history; The telling of stories -- Changing the past. A time of violence; Object lessons; The lost land -- Exiles in our own country. Against love poetry; Domestic violence; Journeys and maps.

Sommario/riassunto

"In this powerful and authoritative study Jody Allen Randolph provides the fullest account yet of the work of a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature as well as in contemporary women's writing. Eavan Boland's achievement in changing the map of Irish poetry is tracked and analyzed from her first poems to the present. The book traces the evolution of that achievement, guiding the reader through Boland's early attachment to Yeats, her growing unease with the absence of women's writing, her encounter with pioneering American poets like Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, and Adrienne Rich, and her eventual, challenging amendments in poetry and prose to Ireland's



poetic tradition. Using research from private papers the book also traces a time of upheaval and change in Ireland, exploring Boland's connection to Mary Robinson, in a chapter that details the nexus of a woman president and a woman poet in a country that was resistant to both. Finally, this book invites the reader to share a compelling perspective on the growth of a poet described by one critic as Ireland's "first great woman poet"--