
Well Dreams
Essays on John Montague
Thomas Dillon Redshaw(Editor)
Creighton University,U.S. (Publisher)
Published on 1. July 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
443 pages
978-1-881871-45-3 (ISBN)
Description
Redshaw gathers twenty-one original essays on the influential Irish poet and novelist, which provide a critical context for Montague's Collected Poems (1995) and the tales and portraits in Company (2001). Montague played a pivotal role in the international evolution of Irish poetry from the late 1950s in Dublin through the worst years of the Troublesin Northern Ireland. Here, American, English, and European critics and scholars touch upon every aspect of Montague's essays, stories, and poetry. Redshaw offers a survey of the criticism and a descriptive checklist. A stunning tribute to a masterful poet (with) seminal essays by some of the finest critics of contemporary Irish poetry . . . mandatory reading.-Michael Patrick Gillespie, Marquette University, President, The American Conference for Irish Studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
754 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-881871-45-3 (9781881871453)
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Thomas Dillon Redshaw is Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, where he founded the journal New Hibernia Review for the Center for Irish Studies.