A Pocket History of Irish Writers from Swift to Heaney.
Author: JEFFARES, A. Norman.
Dublin: O’Brien Press, 1997. 170 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.
This book includes all the leading Irish writers and some of the lesser known: playwrights, novelists, short story writers, poets. It places them in context and provides a list of their works. Commentaries give brief but telling insights into their work.
The story of Irish writing is followed, beginning with Swift, and working through playwrights Synge and O’Casey to Beckett and Friel; in novels, from Maria Edgeworth, through Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Kate O’Brien, Flann O’Brien to contemporaries Julia O’Faolain and Roddy Doyle; from nineteenth-century poetry through Yeats to Paul Durcan.
Contents:- The Eighteenth Century: Rationalism, Anti-Colonialism, Philosophy and Comedy. Nineteenth-century Fiction before the Famine. Romantic Poetry, Nationalism and the Gothic. Social Comedy with a Message: Wilde and Shaw. Seriousness and Humour in the Novel. The Literary Revival. The Abbey (Theatre) in the 1920s and 1930s. Joyce and Fiction: 1920s to 1940s. Poetry after Yeats. Samuel Beckett and Modern Drama. Novelists from the 1950s on. Contemporary Poetry.
ISBN: 0862789117
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