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Title: Irish Classics : by Declan Kiberd ISBN: 0-674-01008-6 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: 30 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95

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Summary: Good overview of Irish literature
Comment: This penetrating collection of essays about Irish literary history offes a quirky overview of much of Irish literature in it English and Gaelic incarnations. One country, two languages, and a sequence of great artists in every generation. From the Gaelic bards to the Belfast Agreement, Irish writers have drawn equally on two traditions to heal the rifts of their land. A celebration of the enduring Irish classics, this book by one of their most eloquent and adept readers offers an unusually brilliant and accessible survey of the greatest works since 1600 in Gaelic and English. Together, they have shaped one of the world's most original literary cultures. For the great seventeenth﷓ and eighteenth﷓century Gaelic poems of dispossession, and for later work in that language, Declan Kiberd provides vivid and idiomatic translations into English. Irish poets and writers, early and modern, confronted modernity as a cataclysm and responded by using traditional forms in novel and radical ways. Kiberd's book embraces the works of the Gaelic bards, Yeats, Synge, Beckett, and Joyce; the myths such as the Cuchulain story, the lament for Art O'Laoghaire, and Dracula; and works that have exerted a palpable influence on the course of human action, such as Swift's Drapier's Letters, the speeches of Edmund Burke, or the autobiography of Wolfe Tone. The book closes with a moving and daring coda on the Anglo﷓Irish agreement, claiming that the seeds of such a settlement were sown in the works of Irish literature.

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