Brearton has collected essays on Irish poetry by critic Allen from 1975 to 2004 and the manuscript "Doubles, Twins and the Feminine Development in the Poetry of Michael Longley," which he had
completed when he died in 2011 but is first published here. Among the essays are provincialism and recent Irish poetry: the important of Patrick Kavanagh, the poetry of Medbh McGuckian, The Haw
Lantern and its place in Heaney’s development, rhythm and revision in Mahon’s poetic development, and rhyme and reconciliation in Muldoon. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2016
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