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Bearing Witness: Essays on Anglo-Irish Literature

Essays on Anglo-Irish Literature

Written over 30 years, these essays range over the field of Anglo-Irish literature from Yeats, Joyce and Synge through Patrick Kavanagh and Mary Lavin to Brendan Kennelly and Eavan Boland.

280 pages

Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature


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Table of Contents

Yeats (three essays) Joyce (two essays) Christy mahon and the apotheosis of loneliness novelist and city dilemma of Irish writer protestant legacy James Stephens, fable and fantasy Mary Lavin Austin Clarke Patrick Kavanagh Brendan Kennelly Eavan Boland five shorter essays on other authors.

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