Last Before America: Irish and American Writing Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
	Prologue: Level Pegging	1
	Faiths and Fidelities: Heaney and Longley in Mid-Career	3
	'A Truly Uninvited Shade': Romantic Legacies in the work of Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon	16
	The Two Mice	29
	Poppypetal: Thanatropism, Pathos and Pathology in Contemporary Elegy Theory	36
	Mnemosyne and the Mislaid Pen: The Poetics of Memory in Heaney, Longley and McGuckian	54
	Ways of Saying/Ways of Reading: Materiality, Literary Criticism and the Poetry of Paul Muldoon	69
	News Headlines from the Homer Noble Farm	80
	Free Statement: Censorship and the Irish Statesman	84
	Ulster Protestants and the Question of 'Culture'	99
	Antic Dispositions in some Recent Irish Fiction	121
	Dante: Inferno: Canto I	142
	'Poet's Corner'	148
	A Glimpse of America	159
	Bringing it all Back Home: Pantisocracy, Madoc, and the Poet's Myth	172
	Dickinson and Cosmopolitanism	186
	Poems	203
	Postscript	212
	Notes	214
	Notes on Contributors	231