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Verse in English from Tudor and Stuart Ireland
Andrew Carpenter (Ed.)
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Description for Verse in English from Tudor and Stuart Ireland
Paperback. This anthology of poetry from 16th- and 17th-century Ireland overturns the accepted view that very little English language poetry was written in Ireland between Spenser and Swift. Num Pages: 598 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 35. Weight in Grams: 746.
Just as Andrew Carpenter's 1998 anthology Verse in English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland changed our perception of eighteenth-century Irish writing in English, the present work challenges the general assumption that little or no verse was written in Tudor or Stuart Ireland. As this exciting and original collection of verse in English from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ireland shows, hundreds of poets were active in Ireland at the time. The poems of a few of them - particularly Edmund Spenser and the young Jonathan Swift - are well-known today: but almost everything else in this anthology - taken from manuscripts ... Read more
Just as Andrew Carpenter's 1998 anthology Verse in English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland changed our perception of eighteenth-century Irish writing in English, the present work challenges the general assumption that little or no verse was written in Tudor or Stuart Ireland. As this exciting and original collection of verse in English from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ireland shows, hundreds of poets were active in Ireland at the time. The poems of a few of them - particularly Edmund Spenser and the young Jonathan Swift - are well-known today: but almost everything else in this anthology - taken from manuscripts ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cork University Press Cork, Ireland
Number of pages
598
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
598
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781859183731
SKU
V9781859183731
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About Andrew Carpenter (Ed.)
Dr Andrew Carpenter, Department of English Literature, University College, Dublin, is the joint founding editor of The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing Volumes I-III, and Verse in English From Eighteenth Century Ireland. He is a former publisher of collector's titles under the Cadenus Press, a bibliophile and expert on Eighteenth Century Literature.
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