Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This article examines Micheal O’Siadhail’s 2018 collection The Five Quintets. It offers a placement of this collection as inheriting the grand modernist narratives that poets like T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound set out in The Waste Land, Four Quartets and The Cantos. O’Siadhail’s complex poetic, thematic and stanzaic structures are examined, as are the detailed and expansive range of thinkers and writers who appear in his work. Each of the five quintets is divided into five canti, which are then further broken down in sections, with each written in a different form. In each quintet, we meet a series of personages from the last several hundred years in art, music, literature (“Making”), commerce and economics (“Dealing”), politics and governance (“Steering”), science and mathematics (“Finding”), and theology (“Meaning”).
Source: Études irlandaises
Author: Eugene O’Brien
Institutions: University of Limerick, Mary Immaculate College
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4393259763