... Michael Longley Irish poetry Poetic form The Troubles Celtic Tiger Lyric One feature of Irish poetry and of the preponderance of the criticism it has spawned makes it singular among contemporary anglophone poetries: its resolutely anti-theoretical, not to say anti-intellectual bias. Where rigorous...

...This study puts contemporary Irish poetry in dialogue with major debates and concerns of European and American poetics. David Lloyd tracks the traits of Irish poetic modernism, from fragmentation to the suspicion of representation, to nineteenth-century responses to the rapid and unsettling effects...