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Starting Lines in Scottish, Irish, and English Poetry: From Burns to Heaney Book

Starting Lines in Scottish, Irish, and English Poetry : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780198186373 : 0198186371 : 15 Feb 2001 : In a series of illuminating close readings, Fiona Stafford explores the use of earlier poems as starting points for new work. Each chapter discusses a Scottish, English, or Irish poem that begins with a line from one of the other national literatures of the British Isles, considering whether issues of originality, influence, and inheritance are essentially political as well as literary.Read More

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    Taking as a framework the history of relations between Ireland England and Scotland since the 1707 Union this title explores questions such as: is text affected by nationhood and history? Textual encounters singled out for detailed discussion include Burns's use of Shakespeare.

  • Product Description

    Are literary ideas of originality and imitation, allusion and influence inherently political if the poems emerge from different sides of a border or of a colonial relationship? Taking as a framework the history of relations between Ireland, England, and Scotland since the 1707 Union, the book explores this question through a series of close readings.

  • 0198186371
  • 9780198186373
  • Fiona Stafford
  • 30 November 2000
  • OUP Oxford
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 368
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