The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry
Includes epigrams, traditional verses and Old Irish songs, with 250 new English translations by the greatest poets currently working, including Seamus Heaney and Ciaran Carson. Reflecting everything from Ireland's rich history of writing about the land, to its untypical prominence of women in...
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Includes epigrams, traditional verses and Old Irish songs, with 250 new English translations by the greatest poets currently working, including Seamus Heaney and Ciaran Carson.
Reflecting everything from Ireland's rich history of writing about the land, to its untypical prominence of women in and writing its poetry, and the abundance of oppositions that have preoccupied its verse through the ages.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780141196503 (0141196505)
ASIN: 0141196505
Publish date: 2010
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 1032
Edition language: English
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