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The Cambridge History of Irish Poetry

The Cambridge History of Irish Poetry is a one-volume, multi-authored history of the poetic traditionson the island of Ireland and their relation to the courses of poetry beyond its shores. It attends to thecrucial developments in the history of Irish poetry as well as the social, political, and culturalconditions underlying those developments, including the complex position of poets in Ireland duringdifferent historical eras. Individual chapters describe the ways in which formal, aesthetic, andcompositional practices were inflected by political and social structures; provide expert accounts ofthe institutional and textual histories that have shaped the body of Irish poetry as we have it; andhighlight the tradition's major texts, writers, and formations. Unparalleled in scope and depth, th

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