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Selected by Thomas Kinsella, a renowned poet and translator, this anthology presents the Irish tradition as unity: verse in Irish and English, usually regarded separately, are shown as elements in a shared and often painful history.
As the most wide-ranging anthology available--spanning from the pre-Christian era to the present day, the poems are grouped in three sections. Kinsella's first selections are from the earliest pre-Christian times and move forward to the first poetry in English from the 14th century. Next comes Irish bardic poetry and English poetry in the era of Swift and Goldsmith. The final section brings us to the recent past and the present with 19th- and 20th-century poets from Davis, Mangan, Yeats, and Ferguson to Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanagh, and Seamus Heaney.
Kinsella offers new translations of a significant selection of peoms from the early centuries to the present day.
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Mark Hansen
reviewed The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse on September 23, 2018
The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse
A really good compilation of Irish poetry, dating from musings on the arrival of Christianity through Yeats and later followers. Includes beautiful work translated by Kinsella from Irish, which gives a highly personal view into the bardic traditions of Ireland and their slow demise. Many poems, including the humorous "The Lovely Étan", an excerpt from the tales of Dierdre, and a poem from the perspective of an old woman looking back at her glorious youth, are real gems.
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