Green Martyrs
Patricia Craig, 24 July 1986
The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse
edited by Thomas Kinsella.
Oxford, 423 pp., £12.50, May 1986,0 19 211868 4 Show More
edited by Thomas Kinsella.
Oxford, 423 pp., £12.50, May 1986,
The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry
edited by Paul Muldoon.
Faber, 415 pp., £10.95, May 1986,0 571 13760 1 Show More
edited by Paul Muldoon.
Faber, 415 pp., £10.95, May 1986,
Irish Poetry after Joyce
by Dillon Johnston.
Dolmen, 336 pp., £20, September 1986,0 85105 437 4 Show More
by Dillon Johnston.
Dolmen, 336 pp., £20, September 1986,
“... as its starting-point (as the blurb has it) the death of Yeats. The American publisher and critic Dillon Johnston plumps for Joyce, rather than Yeats, in his title: not on a whim, he tells us, but in acknowledgement of certain literary procedures sanctioned by Joyce, and afterwards available to poets, no less than prose-writers. The lofty tone perfected ... ”
