Woven Shades of Green

An Anthology of Irish Nature Literature
Herausgeber: Wenzell, Tim

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Produktbeschreibung

Offers an annotated selection of literature from authors who focus on the natural world and the beauty of Ireland. The anthology begins with the Irish monks and their largely anonymous nature poetry, moves on to the nature literature of the Irish Literary Revival, and concludes with a section on Irish naturalist writers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781684481378
• ISBN-10: 1684481376
• Artikelnr.: 54433938

Autorenporträt

TIM WENZELL is an associate professor at Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia. He has published widely in all genres, including a novel, short stories, poetry, and ecocritical essays on both Irish and American literature, as well as the book Emerald Green: An Ecocritical Study of Irish Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

 
Foreword by John Wilson Foster
Preface
 
Part I   Early Irish Nature Poetry
Introduction
The Mystery
Deer's Cry
St. Columcille of Iona
Columcille Fecit
Caelius Sedulius
Invocation
Anonymous Early Irish Nature Poetry
The Blackbird by Belfast Lough
The Scribe
The White Lake
The Lark
The Hermit's Song
King and Hermit
Song of the Sea
Summer Has Come
Song of Summer
Summer is Gone
A Song of Winter
Arran
Buile Suibhne
Part II  Nature Writing and the Changing Irish Landscape
Introduction
Thomas Gainsford
A Description of Ireland
William Allingham
Wishing
The Fairies
The Lover and Birds
Among the Heather
In a Spring Grove
The Ruined Chapel
William Hamilton Drummond
The Giant's Causeway, Book First
James Clarence Mangan
The Dawning of the Day
The Fair Hills of Eire, O!
The Lovely Land: On a Landscape Painted by Maclise
William Makepeace Thackeray
From Irish Sketchbook
William Carleton
From The Black Prophet
Emily Lawless
From Hurrish: A Study
Part III Nature and the Irish Literary Revival
Introduction
Katharine Tynan
The Children of Lir
High Summer
Indian Summer
Nymphs
St. Francis to the Birds
The Birds' Bargain
The Garden
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
AE (George Russell)
By the Margin of the Great Deep
Oversoul
The Great Breath
The Voice of the Waters
A New World
A Vision of Beauty
Carrowmore
Creation
The Winds of Angus
The Nuts of Knowledge
Children of Lir
Connla's Well
From The Candle of Vision
William Butler Yeats
Coole Park, 1929
Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931
Who Goes with Fergus?
Down by the Salley Gardens
In the Seven Woods
The Shadowy Waters (Introductory Lines)
The Cat and the Moon
The Fairy Pedant
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Madness of King Goll
The Song of Wandering Aengus ...
The Stolen Child ...
The Two Trees ...
The White Birds ...
The Wild Swans at Coole ...
Eva Gore-Booth
The Dreamer ...
Re-Incarnation ...
Secret Waters ...
The Little Waves of Breffny
The Weaver
John Millington Synge
In Kerry
To the Oaks of Glencree
Prelude
In Glencullen
On an Island
From The Aran Islands
Riders to the Sea
George Moore
Preface and Chapter 1 from The Lake
Padraic Colum
A Drover
A Cradle Song
Across the Door
The Crane ...
Dublin Roads ..
River Mates ...
Part IV Modern Irish Nature Poetry
Introduction ...
Patrick Kavanaugh ..
Poplars
Lilacs in the City
October
Canal Bank Walk
Having to Live in the Country
Inniskeen Road: July Evening
On an Apple-Ripe September Morning
Primrose
Wet Evening in April
Louis MacNeice
The Sunlight on the Garden ..
Wolves ...
Tree Party
Seamus Heaney ..
Death of a Naturalist
The Salmon Fisher to the Fisherman
Limbo
St. Kevin and the Blackbird .
Eavan Boland
The Lost Land
The River
Mountain Time
This Moment
Ode to Suburbia
Escape ...
A Sparrow Hawk in the Suburbs
Moya Cannon
Bees under Snow
Eavesdropping
Two Ivory Swans
Winter View from Binn Briocain
Primavera
The Tube-Case Makers
Crannog
Hazelnuts
John Montague
All Legendary Obstacles
The Wild Dog Rose
The Trout
Michael Longley
The Osprey
Badger
Hedgehog
Kingfisher
Robin
Out of the Sea
Her Mime of the Lame Seagull
Carrigskeewaun
Saint Francis to the Birds
Derek Mahon
The Seasons
Achill
Aphrodite's Pool
The Mayo Tao
Penhurst Place
The Woods
The Dream Play
"A Hermit"
Leaves
Sean Lysaght
Golden Eagle
The Clare Island Survey
Goldcrest
From Bird Sweeney
Desmond Egan
The Great Blasket
Sunday Evening
Meadowsweet
Snow Snow Snow Snow
A Pigeon Dead
Envoi
Mary O'Malley
Absent
The Man of Aran
Porpoises
The Price of Silk is Paid in Gold
The Storm
Liaden with a Mortgage Briefly Tastes the Stars
Rosemarie Rowley
Osborn O h - Aimbirgin; A Cry from the Heart of a Poet-Morning in Beara
The Blackbird of Derry of the Cairn
In Praise of the Hill Between of Howth
Blind Seamus McCourt: Welcome to the Bird'
Kitty Dwyer
Part V  The Literature of Irish Naturalists
Introduction
John Tyndall
Belfast Address
Robert Lloyd Praeger
From The Way That I Went
Michael Viney
From A Year's Turning
From The Irish Times, "Another Life"
Tim Robinson
From Connemara: Listening to the Wind, "Preface"
From Connemara: Listening to the Wind, "The Boneyard"
John Moriarty
From Invoking Ireland
 
Appendix: Environmental Organizations in Ireland
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index