Starting Lines in Scottish, Irish, and English Poetry: From Burns to Heaney
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.
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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.
1'What's Past is Prologue'12Scottish Bards and English Epigraphs: Robert Burns's 'A Winter Night'433The Grand Old Ballad in Coleridge's 'Dejection'914James Clarence Mangan and Percy Bysshe Shelley1425The Homes of England1936'The Irish for No'2447Seamus Heaney and the Caught Line292Epilogue. George Mackay Brown, 'All Souls'328Bibliography331Index351
