Description: The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry consists of 40 essays by leading scholars and new researchers in the field. Beginning with W.B.Yeats, the figure who towers over the century's poetry, it includes chapters on the major poets to have emerged in Ireland over the last 100 years.
Review Quotes: "As a whole, the work offers many astute analyses of poetic form, providing a rich understanding of literary movements in 20th-century Irish poetry... Essential." --Choice