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Book cover for The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry
    Adams, Gerry556
    Aldington, Richard135
    Allen, Michael427
    Allen, Nicholas16
    Allison, Jonathan448
    Altieri, Charles497
    Anderson, Benedict549
    Anderson, Hedli243
    Archambeau, Robert619
    Armantrout, Rae608
    Armitage, Simon643
    Ashe, Thomas396
    Atkins, Humphrey389
    Auden, W. H.
    and European Caravan, The135
    and Icelandic sagas238
    and poetry anthologies542
    and poetry and politics128
    and Thirties poetry196
    ‘Musée des Beaux Arts’253, 256
    Bachelard, Gaston150
    Baer, William644
    Barańczak, Stanisław344
    Bartlett, Tom5
    Batten, Guinn146
    Baudrillard, Jean470
    Bax, Arnold (Dermot O’Byrne)79–80
    Baxter, Leslie Owen217
    Bernstein, Charles619
    Berryman, John336
    Bertrand, Aloysius616
    Betjeman, John195
    Blanchot, Maurice155
    Bloem, J. C.262
    Blueshirts, The108
    Blyton, Enid621
    Boehme, Jacob38
    Bono (Paul Hewson)404
    Borges, Jorge Luis165
    Bowra, Cecil Morris40
    Boyle, Alicia221
    Branusci, Constantin251
    Brearton, Fran
      and art as alternative spirituality482
      and Muldoon, Paul305
      and the ‘Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry’626
      Great War in Irish Poetry, The62
    Bresdin, Rodolphe395
    Breton, André154
    Breughel, Pieter263
    Brodsky, Joeseph602
    Bronte, Charlotte426
    Brook, Rupert65
    Brooke, Rupert592
    Brooks, Cleanth453
    Bryson, Norman283
    Byron, Catherine402
    Callanan, J. J.312
    Campbell, Joseph (US mythologist)237
    Campbell, Lawrence252
    Campbell, Thomas116
    Campion, Thomas86
    Carberry, Ethna
    Carleton, William12
    Carlyle, Thomas10, 21
    Carner, Josep347
    Carney, James322
    Carson, Edward246
    Carter, Angela18
    Casanova, Pascale514
    Casement, Roger84
    Cervantes, Miguel de165
    Chagall, Marc254
    Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon254
    Cioran, Emile M.154
    Cixous, Hélène530
    Clarke, Thomas84
    Clifford, Sigerson227
    Coghill, Rhoda272
    cognitive poetics364
    Collins, Lucy414
    Collins, Michael589
    Comfort, Alex217
    Conor, William219
    Cooke, Barrie262
    Copernicus, Nicolaus10
    Corkery, Daniel530
    Coughlan, Patricia150
    Coward, Noel197
    Cox, Kenneth498
    Craig, Cairns123
    Craig, Patricia220
    Crevel, René154
    Cullen, Yvonne652
    Cummins, James627
    Daly, Edward84
    David, Gerard256
    Davidson, Bob221
    Davitt, Michael336
    Davray, Henri38
    De Hooch, Pieter259
    Derricke, John376
    Derrida, Jacques343
    Devlin, Denis
      and Beckett, Samuel150
      and career as diplomat138
      and Perse, St John138
      ‘Bacchanal’146
      ‘Lough Derg’140
      ‘Memoirs of a Turcoman Diplomat’143
      ‘Tomb of Michael Collins, The’132, 589
    Didsbury, Peter646
    Dillon, Gerard256
    Dire Straits604
    Donaghy, Gerald379
    Donaghy, John Lyle135
    Donovan, Katie366
    Douglas, Keith594
    Dowland, John162
    Dublin Magazine134
    Duchamp, Marcel149
    Duffy, Gavan45
    Dunsany, Lord (Edward Plunkett)68–70
    Durcan, Paul
      and Irish poetry anthologies543, 545
      ‘11 September 2001’409
      ‘Beckett at the Gate, The’504
      ‘Centre of the Universe, The’409
      ‘Collaring of Manet by a Dublin Architect in the National Gallery, The’284
      ‘Family Group in a Landscape, A’285
      ‘Fr Peadar Party—Third Secretary to the Archbishop’405
      ‘Fuckmuseum, Constance’284
      ‘Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil’409, 415–8
      ‘Holy Family with St John, The’286–7
      ‘Interior with Members of a Family’, An’285
      ‘Irish Hierarchy Bans Colour Photography’548
      Jesus Break His Fall284
      ‘Jewish Bride, The’285, 412
      Jumping the Train Tracks with Angela284
      ‘Lament for Cearbhall O’Dálaigh’414–15
      Laughter of Mothers, The404
      ‘MacBride Dynasty, The’404
      ‘Man with Two Daughters’285
      ‘Margaret Thatcher Joins IRA’548
      ‘Marriage of the Virgin, The’285–6
      ‘Minister Opens New Home for Battered Husbands’548
      ‘Mr and Mrs Andrews’285
      ‘Mrs Congreve with Her Children’285
      ‘Newsdesk’548
      ‘Night they Murdered Boyle Somerville, The’416
      O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor408, 416
      ‘Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly, The’285
      ‘Perfect Nazi Family is Alive and Well and Prospering in Modern Ireland, The’284, 405–6
      ‘Rose of Blackpool, The’414
      ‘Snail in my Prime, A’409
      ‘Tribute to a Reporter in Belfast, 1974’548
      ‘Tullynoe: Tête á Tête in the Parish Priest's Parlour’409
      ‘Vision of St Hubert, The’285
      ‘Visitor from Rio de Janeiro, A’496
        ‘Wife Who Smashed Television Gets Jail’548
    Eagleton, Terry386
    Ellis, Conleth380
    Emmet, Robert9, 44
    Ennis, Séamus271
    Europa Press135
    Evans, Estyn222
    Farr, Florence32
    Farren, Robert212
    Ferlinghetti, Lawrence228
    Ferris, Sarah220
    Field Day Anthology, The404, 531
    Fitzgerald, Edward44
    Flanagan, T. P.261
    Flower, Robin314
    Fludd, Robert127
    Flynn, Leontia652, 669, 672
      ‘Acts of Faith’672
      ‘Alfred Hitchcock’681
      ‘Amazing, Disappearing, The’672
      ‘Belfast’669
      ‘Bridges’671
      ‘Cyprus Avenue’278
      ‘Franklin's Tale, The’672
      ‘It's a Wonderful Life’672, 680
      ‘Myth of the Tea Boy, The’680
      ‘On the Third Floor of the Royal Infirmary’680
      ‘Poem for Christmas’676, 680
      ‘Second Mrs de Winter, The’672
      Sylvia Plath's Sinus Condition’681
      ‘Two Crossings’679
      ‘What you Get’366
    Ford, Charles Henri136
    Frazer, James610
    Frazier, Adrian497
    Fuller, John569
    Gaelic League311
    Galileo, Galalei10
    Galvin, Patrick90
    Gaynor, Fergal627
    George, Stefan22
    Géricault, Théodore291
    Gibbon, Monk94
    Gifford, Mary81
    Gill, Thomas Patrick22, 25
    Ginsberg, Allen228
    Girard, René106
    Girvan, Brian226
    Goya, Francisco de263
    Graham, Jorie646
    Gray, Thomas182
    Green, Frederick Lawrence219
    Greer, Beatrice246
    Greer, Germaine434
    Greer, Thomas McGregor246
    Grene, Nicholas89
    Grierson, Herbert126
    Groarke, Vona629, 652–67
      and editorship of special edition of Verse653
      and Mahon, Derek495
      and translation347
      ‘American Jay, An’665
      ‘Annotated House, The’661
      ‘Archaeology’661
      ‘By and By’665
      ‘Clutch Handbag, The’665
      ‘Daphne as a Modern Theme’656
      ‘Empty House, The’657
      ‘End of the Line, The’658
      ‘Flight’659
      ‘Going Home’656
      ‘Haunted House, The’658
      ‘If There is a City’657
      ‘Image of the House, The’657
      ‘Imperial Measure’659
      ‘Jetty, The’666
      ‘Letter “d”, The’661
      ‘Lighthouse, The’655
      ‘Magic Touch, The’658
      ‘Outdoors’658
      ‘Rain Bearers’657
      ‘Reflections’656
      ‘Shot Silk’659
      ‘Snow in Summer’660
      ‘Thistle’660
      ‘To Smithereens’662
      ‘Trapdoor’666
      ‘Verb “to herringbone”, The’659
      ‘Way it Goes, The’659
      ‘We Had Words’662
      ‘White Noise’659
    Guillén, Claudio352
    Gyles, Althea30
    Haberstroh, Patricia Boyle421, 427
    Hallam, Arthur Henry24
    Hardie, Kerrie652
    Harmon, Maurice439
    Hartley, David120
    Hauptmann, Gerhart163
    Hayter, Stanley William135
    HD (Hilda Doolittle)135
    Hegel, G. W. F.10
    Heidegger, Martin151
    Heine, Heinrich31
    Hemans, Felicia116
    Henley, William Ernest29
    Henn, Thomas Rice126
    Herbert, George528
    Hewitt, John211–13, 215, 217, 219–22, 321
      and Connolly, James90
      and Easter Rising90
      and ‘Irish mode’213
      and progressive politics in Northern Ireland197
      and ‘rooted’ Ulster writing205, 209
      ‘Bitter Gourd: Some Problems of the Ulster Writer, The’205–8, 217, 527
      ‘Freehold’222
      ‘Gloss, on the difficulties of translation’323–4
      No Rebel Word212
      ‘Once Alien Here’207
      ‘Overture for Ulster Regionalism’215
      ‘Poetry and Ulster: A Survey’224
      ‘Roll Call’222
      ‘Townland of Peace’207
    Higgins, Aidan237
    Higgins, Rita-Ann652
    Hobbes, Thomas119
    Hogan, James (Augustus Young)612
    Holbein, Hans155
    Honest Ulsterman, The474
    Hopper, Edward259
    Hourican, Liam548
    Howes, Marjorie43
    Hunter, Barbara223
    Huysmans, Joris-Karl37
    Ireland, Denis219
    Irish Citizens Army84
    Irish Republican Brotherhood4
    Irish Statesman134
    Irish Texts Society4
    Irish Women's Liberation Movement420
    Ishiguro, Kazuo352
    Jacottet, Phillipe540
    Jakobson, Roman357
    James, Henry426
    Jarrell, Randall513
    Johnson, Bryan Stanley155
    Johnston, Denis197
    Johnston, Maria631
    Jones, Ernst20
    Joyce, Stanislaus162
    Joyce, Trevor626–7
      and Beckett, Samuel159
      and modernism10
      ‘Chimaera’616
      ‘Drift, The’616
      Hopeful Monsters617
      ‘Net, The’617
      Poems of Sweeney Peregrine, The17, 615
      ‘STILLSMAN’618
      stone floods616
      ‘Turlough, The’616
      What's in Store: Poems 2000–2007618
      Without Asylum617
    Kavanagh, Peter225
    Kelly, James220
    Kelly, Oisin261
    Kennedy, X. J.644
    Kennedy-Andrews, Elmer198
    Kinahan, Frank298
    Kinsella, Michael A.658
    Koch, Kenneth598
    Kochanowski, Jan344
    Knott, Eleanor322
    Laforgue, Jules36
    Landweer, Sonja261
    Larkin, James193
    Larminie, William23, 26
    Lavery, John295
    Leavis, F. R.453
    Lentini, Giacomo da569
    Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim283
    Levitas, Ben101
    Lewis, Wyndham251
    Littéraire Européen135
    Little, Roger153
    Litz, Walton164
    Lochhead, Liz18
    Loftus, Richard J.86
    Long, Richard262
    Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth116
    Longley, Sarah257
    Lovelace, Richard616
    Macaulay, Thomas Babbington116
    McAuliffe, John347
    McBride, Joseph404
    McCann, George200
    McCarthy, Thomas505
    McCartney, Colum600
    MacDiarmid, Hugh375
    McDiarmid, Lucy128
    McDonagh, John411
    McGahern, John237
    McGonagle, Declan402
    McGuckian, Medbh211, 652
      and modernism609
      and Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala328, 332
      ‘Aphrodisiac, The’368, 430
      Captain Lavender563
      ‘Chain Sleeper, The’424
      ‘Desire for Freedom, The’394
      ‘Drawing Ballerinas’291, 562
      Face of the Earth, The291
      ‘Flitting, The’425
      ‘Flower Master, The’368
      ‘Gateposts’425
      ‘Gentians’424
      ‘Hazel Lavery, The Green Coat, 1926’292–4
      ‘Hollywood Bed, The’425, 429
      ‘Long Engagement, The’425
      ‘Lychees’425
      ‘Joanna’421
      ‘Mast Year, The’426
      ‘Monody for Aghas’396
      ‘Mr McGregor's Garden’426
      ‘Next Day Hill’430
      ‘Orchid House, The’424
      ‘Picasso's Windows’291
      Portrait of Joanna419
      ‘Portraits’421
      ‘Power-Cut’425
      ‘Problem Girl, The’424
      ‘Reading the Earthquake’292
      ‘Sands of St Cyprien, The’396–8
      ‘Self-Portrait in the Act of Painting a Self-Portrait’291
      ‘Single Ladies’421
      Single Ladies: Sixteen Poems419
      ‘Sitting, The’291
      ‘Sky Portrait’291
      ‘Soil Map, The’425
      ‘Studies of Her Right Breast’292
      ‘Sunbench, The’425
      ‘That Year’ / ‘Eavesdropper’422, 429, 431
      ‘Theatre, The’429
      ‘Your House’425
    McGuigan, Paddy362
    McIntosh, Gillian197
    McIntyre, Dan369
    Maeterlinck, Maurice37
    Magritte, René259
    Mahoney, Elisabeth506
    Malraux, André255
    Manet, Édouard284
    Marcus, David227
    Marlowe, Christopher182
    Marvell, Andrew592
    Mathers, Samuel Lidell MacGregor29, 40
    Matthews, Steven230
    Maturin, Charles628
    Melville, Herman504
    Meredith, George164
    Merleau-Ponty, Maurice614
    Mhac an tSaoi, Máire271
    Michaux, Henri154
    Michelangelo252
    Milosz, Oscar Venceslas de Lubicz154
    Mitchel, John9, 45
    Monroe, Harriet134
    Montague, John
      and ancient Ireland16
      and Clarke, Austin229
      and global-regionalism521
      and Irish language poetry320
      ‘Bread God, The’376
      ‘Coming Events’256
      ‘Cultural Centre: Musée Imaginaire255–6
      Dolmen Miscellany of Irish Writing237
      ‘Figure in the Cave, The’526
      Forms of Exile497
      ‘Grafted Tongue, A’540
      Great Cloak, The497
      ‘Herbert Street Revisited’92, 497
      ‘Home Again’376
      ‘Hymn to the New Omagh Road’376
      ‘Impact of International Modern Poetry on Irish Writing, The’526
      ‘Like Dolmens Round my Childhood, the Old People’375
      ‘Unpartitioned Intellect, The’526
    Moody, David128
    Moore, Donald B.245
    Moore, George193
    Moran, D. P.515
    Moreas, Jean22
    Morrison, Blake558
    Morrison, Danny396
    Morrissey, Sinéad629, 652, 669, 679, 682–3
      ‘& Forgive Us Our Trespasses’676
      ‘Anatomy of Smell, An’470
      Between Here and There295, 468
      ‘Eileen, Her First Communion’295–6
      ‘Flight’677
      ‘Found Architecture’682
      ‘Matter’678
      ‘On Waitakere Dam’359
      ‘Second Lesson of the Anatomists, The’676–7
      ‘Street Theatre’366
      Through the Square Window294
      ‘Through the Square Window’294
    Morrow, Harry221
    Moses, Michael Valdez98, 109
    Mulholland, Carolyn262
    Mulholland, Marc387
    Munch, Edvard259
    Murphy, Gerard323
    Murray, John Middleton116
    Nashe, Thomas162
    Nation, The7
    neo-liberalism582
    Nerval, Gérard de36
    Newgrange5, 6
    Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala317, 328–40, 350, 519, 652
      and Field Day Anthology519, 531
      and critique of the masculinism of Irish poetic tradition531
      ‘Admháil Shuaithinseach’ / ‘A Remarkable Admission’338–40
      An Bhanfile Sa Traidisiun: The Woman Poet in the Irish Tradition’531
      ‘An Crann’ / ‘As for the Quince’333–4
      An Dealg Droighin331
      ‘An Mhór-Rion ag Cáiseamh na Baidhbhe le Cú Chulainn’ / ‘The Great Queen Berates the Badbh Cú Chulainn’17–19
      Cead Aighnis337
      ‘Ceist na Teangan’ / ‘The Language Issue’333
      ‘Coco-de-Mer’334
      ‘Comhairle ón mBean Leasa’ / ‘The Heist’340
      ‘Deora Duibhshléibhe’ / ‘Dora Dooley’334–5
      Féar Suaithinseach331
      ‘Gan do Chúid Éadaigh’ / ‘Nude’333
      ‘Immram’ / ‘The Voyage’337
      Selected Essays531
      Selected Poems/Rogha Dánta331
      Water Horse, The332
      ‘Why I choose to Write in Irish, the Corpse That Sits Up and Talks Back’532
    Norris, Margot169
    Northern Ireland Women's Rights Movement421
    O’Brien, Conor Cruise101, 106
    O’Brien, Eoin145
    O’Brien, Flann (Brian O’Nolan)238, 320, 414
    O’Brien, Peggy428
    Ó Bruadair, Daibhi317
    O’Casey, Sean396
    O’Curry, Eugene122
    Ó Direáin, Máirtín328
    O’Donoghue, Bernard532
    O’Donoghue, Gregory541
    O’Donoghue, Mary366
    O Drisceoil, Donal226
    O’Duffy, Eoin108
    O’Flaherty, Liam133
    O’Flynn, Criostoir390
    O’Hanrahan, Michael84
    O’Leary, Olivia558
    Ó Muirthile, Liam336
    O’Neill, Moira210
    Ó Seaghdha, Barra177
    Ostriker, Alicia530
    O’Toole, Fintan417
    Ó Tuama, Seán319
    Parkinson, Thomas126
    Pasternak, Boris348
    Pearse, William (Willie)84
    Perloff, Marjorie146
    Perse, St John (Alexis Leger)138
    Pessoa, Fernando533
    Petrarch, Francis570
    Picasso, Pablo562
    Pinsky, Robert346
    Plunkett, Horace22
    Poe, Edgar Allen509
    Pollexfen, Lucy33
    Powers, Mary Farl158
    Protestantism and Northern Irish poetry473–91
    Prynne, J. H.608
    Puccini, Giacomo611
    Purbrick, Louise388
    Putnam, Samuel134
    Racine, Jean344
    Raworth, Tom619
    Read, Herbert537
    Redon, Odilon395
    Redshaw, Thomas Dillon237, 376
    Rees-Jones, Deryn434
    Ribera, José de288
    Richardson, Dorothy135
    Riding, Laura131
    Riley, Denise608
    Rilke, Rainer Maria22, 62
    Roberts-Jones, Philippe394
    Robinson, Mary421
    Robinson, Peter500
    Rogers, Samuel116
    Rorty, Richard413
    Rosenstock, Gabriel336
    Rossetti, William Michael115
    Rowley, Richard219
    Royal Dublin Fusiliers66
    Royal Irish Academy4, 5, 9
    Ruane, Joseph389
    Ruskin, John124
    Russel, Myra165
    Ruysdael, Jacob van149
    Ryan, William Patrick38
    Sacks, Peter394
    Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de602
    Sartre, Jean-Paul665
    Schafer, R. Murray277
    Scott, William259
    Second Vatican Council441
    Sexton, Anne420
    Shanahan, Timothy388
    Shaw, George Bernard133
    Sheehy-Skeffington, Francis94
    Shephard, Graham590
    Sheridan, Robert Brinsley535
    Sidney, Henry376
    Sirr, Peter
      and Hartnett, Michael503
      and Joyce, James502
      and Kinsella, Thomas500
      and Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan507
      and Quinn, Justin500
      and Wheatley, David500
      ‘At the Intersection’503
      ‘Carmina’503
      ‘In the Beginning’503
      ‘Internacia Lingvo’353
      ‘Overgrown Path, The’502
      ‘Sráid na gCaorach’501
      Thing Is, The502
    Smith, Hazel493
    Smith, Irene612
    Somerville, Edith133
    Sorley, Charles589
    Spector, Phil269
    Spender, Stephen196
    Standard, The193
    Stein, Gertrude623
    Steiner, Wendy283
    Stewart, Bruce593
    Strand, Mark674
    Stuart, Francis540
    Stubbs, George289
    Sullivan, Timothy Daniel7
    Supervielle, Jules154
    Surette, Leon121
    Swinburne, Algernon Charles25, 115
    Taylor, Geoffrey135
    Thompson, Sam197
    Todd, Jennifer389
    Tóibín, Colm407
    Tolkein, John Ronald Reuel121
    Tomelty, Joe219
    Tone, Wolfe44
    Tuatha de Danaan3
    Tubridy, Derval499
    Turnbull, Gael619
    Turner, J. M. W.253
    Turner, W. J.538
    Uccello, Paolo259
    Underhill, Evelyn121
    United Irishman9
    Van Eyck, Jan288
    Vattimo, Gianni413
    Verdonk, Peter369
    Vere, Aubrey de536
    Verhaeren, Emile24
    Villiers (Count), de L’Isle Adam24–30, 36
    Vitty, Jimmy219
    Vivaldi, Antonio604
    Wagner, Peter296
    Wagner, Richard13
    Watt, Stephen158
    Waugh, Patricia429
    Weber, Richard228
    Weil, Simone528
    Wellek, René22
    Wellesley, Dorothy538
    Weston, Jessie L.121
    Whitaker, Thomas Kenneth237
    Wilbur, Richard347
    Williams, Charles121
    Williamson, Bruce218
    Wimbush, Mary243
    Wimsatt, W. K.453
    Wissel, Adolf284
    Wyatt, Thomas570
    Yeats, George33
    Young Ireland Poets44
    Young Irelanders7
    Zamenhof, L. L.353
    Zukofsky, Louis620
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