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Eavan Boland
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2013
Summary
In this powerful and authoritative study Jody Allen Randolph providesthe 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.”
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Edition
1/2013
Copyright Year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-1-61148-536-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-61148-537-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
250
Product Type
Monograph
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Acknowledgments No access
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Introduction No access
Chapter 1. The Poetics of Origin No access Pages 1 - 24
Chapter 2. The Nexus of Influence No access Pages 25 - 46
Chapter 3. From Patria to Matria No access Pages 47 - 80
Chapter 4. Out of Myth into History No access Pages 81 - 116
Chapter 5. Changing the Past No access Pages 117 - 148
Chapter 6. Exiles in Our Own Country No access Pages 149 - 184
