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The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry Paperback – International Edition, May 1, 2012

by Patrick Crotty (Author)

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The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry features the work of the greatest Irish poets, from the monks of the ancient monasteries to the Nobel laureates W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney, from Jonathan Swift and Oliver Goldsmith to Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, along with a profusion of lyrics, love poems, satires, ballads and songs. Reflecting Ireland's complex past and lively present, this collection of Irish verse is an indispensable guide to the history, culture and romance of one of Europe's oldest civilizations. In his introduction to this new Penguin Classics edition, Patrick Crotty explores the traditions of poetry in Ireland, and relates the rich variety of the poems to the long and frequently troubled history of the island.

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500 pages
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Penguin UK
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May 1, 2012
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5.12 x 1.85 x 7.8 inches
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0141191643
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978-0141191645
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Patrick Crotty is a Professor of Scottish and Irish Literature at the University of Aberdeen and a regular reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement. His translations from seventeenth-, eighteenth- and twentieth-century Irish verse have appeared in many anthologies. He edited Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology and is currently co-editing with Alan Riach the annotated three-volume Complete Collected Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid. Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry, Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first book, appeared in 1966 and since then he has published poetry, criticism and translations which have established him as one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin UK (May 1, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 500 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0141191643
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141191645
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.12 x 1.85 x 7.8 inches

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William D. Freeman

An Irish Poetry Festival in your hands!

Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2016

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This beautifully-produced anthology is a joy both to behold and to read. The early poems have been translated into modern English by some of Ireland's greatest living poets. The result feels like attending an Irish Poetry Festival attended by all the great bards of past and present. Well done Penguin!

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Velomoon

The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry, ably demonstrates Ireland's status as a literary superpower.

Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2013

In the preface to this book it states that "This is the most comprehensive and confident anthology of Irish poetry yet" it goes on to say that "The comprehensiveness is due to the inclusion of a much greater selection of work from the earlier periods, the confidence to the sureness about the artistic quality and significance of that work and of the writing done later, in the decades since the death of W.B. Yeats". This is a collection of writing that ably demonstrates that as a literary nation Ireland punches well above it's weight, especially when you take in the fact that the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland share a land mass that is only 84,421 sq km (32,595.1 sq mi), making it the third largest island in Europe, or about the size of South Carolina (82,931. sq km) and with a combined population only slightly larger, and yet it has produced amongst it's writers four Nobel Laureates. The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry, features the writing of three of the Laureates - W. B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney (the fourth - George Bernard Shaw) as well as the poetry of Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Moore, Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Eavan Boland and James Joyce to name just a few.

Poetry in Ireland is a genuinely ancient cultural practice, how ancient is hard to determine, although there is evidence to the existence of writing predating the arrival of Christianity early in the fifth century. This is the starting point of the book as over its one thousand or so pages it charts Ireland's literary culture through Christian and pre-Christian attitudes, to Gaels and Vikings, Nationalism and Unionism, Catholicism and Protestantism, the Irish and English languages, also managing to encompass Latin, Old Norse and Old French right up to the vibrant poetry of modern Ireland, celebrating around 1,500 years of this nations poetry and verse.

What makes this book really magnificent is that many of the verse translations were specially commissioned, with 250 new English translations by the greatest poets currently working, including Seamus Heaney (also wrote the preface), Michael Longley, Bernard O 'Donoghue and Ciarán Carson. Not counting Anonymous, this collection features over one hundred and eighty poets, and although you could quite easily play spot the missing poet, I think that is missing the point; yes there are several poets working today I would love to see in this collection, but then who do you leave out, my choice may not be yours and with this Anthology already at over a thousand pages, how much larger would it need to be to embrace all our favourites.

The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry, ably demonstrates Ireland's status as a literary superpower, whether through those poems/verses that have only survived due to some monks recording of them or whether it is the poetry that still flows like molten lava from those poets writing today. This anthology offers a wonderful insight into a nation that somehow has managed to not only write as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, said of poetry "The best words in the best order", but have in the process influenced the rest of the world.

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James Watts

Chronologically arranged, and not the best selections.

Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2020

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I have the Penguin Book of Scottish Verse (which I believe is out of print) and it’s incredible. I was expecting as much from the Irish collection, but I wad disappointed in that while most books go chronologically by poet, this splits them up by era, and with a collection this size you need the appendix like a yellow pages. Also, the two poets whose work I am most familiar with (Yeats and Heaney) are too under-represented, and by weak choices, imho.

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Natassia Trettel

I was really disappointed with the look of this book when it arrived

Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2015

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I was really disappointed with the look of this book when it arrived. It was not what I was expecting. Unlike the rest of my Penguin classics in this set, it does not seem to fit in. It's paper cover makes it look cheap. The clothbounds are much better!

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Peter

Present

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 6, 2022

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It was a present for my sister who writes poetry, and lives to read too

Paul Boylan

Love this book of Poetry

Reviewed in Canada on October 5, 2013

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After Shamus Heaney died I was reminded that I grew up in N.Ireland and one of his poems was "death of a naturalist" brought me back to my own childhood, The other Irish poets make this a must have book

MR M MC LAUGHLIN

Irish classics

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 4, 2014

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This is the perfect poetry book for all levels of readers, I have personally found some very touching, meaningful and funny poems in here. Many have forced me to do some research on the poems background, which is surely a good thing. Would make an excellent gift for the serious poet.

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Louis

Excellent.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 4, 2016

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Fabulous book bought for a family member as a christmas present - it went over very well. A big book that one would expect to pay twice as much for. Excellent.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 6, 2017

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Excellent book in great condition.Very good book of poetry nice to have in my collection . John

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