The Modern Irish Sonnet
Revision and Rebellion
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The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion discusses how and why the sonnet appeals to Irish poets and has grown in popularity over the last century. Using a thematic approach, Tara Guissin-Stubbs argues for the significance of the Irish sonnet as a discrete entity within modern and contemporary poetry, and shows how the Irish sonnet has become a debating chamber for discussions concerning the relationship between Irish and British culture, poetry and gender, and revision and rebellion. The text reshapes the poetic and critical field, exploring canonical and non-canonical poems by male and female poets so as to challenge outmoded views of the thematic and formal limitations of the sonnet.
The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion discusses how and why the sonnet appeals to Irish poets and has grown in popularity over the last century. Using a thematic approach, Tara Guissin-Stubbs argues for the significance of the Irish sonnet as a discrete entity within modern and contemporary poetry, and shows how the Irish sonnet has become a debating chamber for discussions concerning the relationship between Irish and British culture, poetry and gender, and revision and rebellion. The text reshapes the poetic and critical field, exploring canonical and non-canonical poems by male and female poets so as to challenge outmoded views of the thematic and formal limitations of the sonnet.
Offers the first book-length study of modern and contemporary Irish poets' use of the form Adopts an innovative non-chronological structure, reflecting the richness and complexity of the form and its contexts Examines contemporary poetry that has not previously received critical attention
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Tara Guissin-Stubbs
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Yeats Louis MacNeice Patrick Kavanagh Greg Delanty Brendan Kennelly Seamus Heaney Ciaran Carson Vona Groarke Sonnet Domesticity Artifice Gender
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“Tara Stubbs’s The Modern Irish Sonnet is an eloquent testament to the resilience and flexibility of the sonnet as a poetic form, this time in an Irish context, far from its medieval origins and its main traditions of operation. From Yeats to Kavanagh to Heaney, and onward to current practitioners, she shows it to have a remarkable fitness to the themes of Irish writing because of its capacity to express both the personal and the public. She shows too how this primarily male amatory tradition has been redirected for application to female and political experience while maintaining the characteristic tight structure of thesis-antithesis of which it is fundamentally composed. Across a wide range of writers and subjects she makes plain the paradox of the sonnet: how a defined form can transcend its restrictions and boundaries to meet an unlimited set of occasions. This is a comprehensive and compelling study of a strikingly rich poetic field.” (Bernard O’Donoghue, Emeritus Fellow, Wadham College, University of Oxford, UK)
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