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Out of Print
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.
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
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