The Irish Literary Movement
Out of Print
The Irish Literary Movement
A. Norman Jeffares
Renowned for its rich cultural history, Ireland boasts one of the world's most impressive lists of great writers. But what is it that has driven on this growth, producing generation after generation of novelists, poets and dramatists? One explanation lies in the country's history. National identity has been at the forefront of Irish consciousness for decades and it was this awareness that sparked off the literary revival at the end of the nineteenth century, when the rising political temperature led writers to explore and affirm their Irishness. From W.B. Yeats to Seamus Heaney, James Joyce to Elizabeth Bowen, A. Norman Jeffares guides us through the revival and beyond showing how Ireland's literary rebirth has developed to provide one of the world's richest cultural sources.
Author
A.
Norman Jeffares, formerly Professor of English at the Universities of
Adelaide, Leeds and Stirling (where he is now Professor Emeritus) has
written extensively on Irish authors, including Jonathan Swift, Oliver
Goldsmith and W. B. Yeats. His two histories of Irish literature were
published in 1982 and 1997, and other recent books include Images of
Imagination: Essays on Irish Writing (1995), Victorian Love Poetry
(1996) and Irish Love Poems (1997).
166 x 121mm, 64 pages
37 illustrations, 10 in colour
ISBN 1 85514 233 3
£5.99 (hardback)
Special offer price: £5.00
Click on our other titles in the award-winning Character Sketches series
CHARACTER SKETCHES
The
National Portrait Gallery's Character Sketches is a series of compact,
fully illustrated, historical guides to literary and artistic
personalities and themes. Written by well-known writers of today, they
use images from the Gallery's unique collection to examine the public
and the private faces, the lives, thoughts and relationships, both
artistic and personal, within each selected group.
This product is supplied by the National Portrait Gallery Company Limited. For more information on the Company, click here. Every purchase supports the National Portrait Gallery.
