Year: 1992
Type: article
Abstract: RB Contemporary male Irish poets such as Heaney, Montague, or Murphy often refer to the giants of modern Irish literature-Yeats, Joyce, Kavanagh, among others-as primary influences on their work.The male lineage is striking.Who are your influences and those of other women poets of your generation?JM The influences are as various as the practitioners, as I understand it.I cannot speak for other Irish women poets [because] I was not writing or publishing my own poetry until 1987.Therefore I personally had no opportunity to meet and discuss contemporary poetry or any other poetry with those women whose names are considered important today, i.e.,
Author: Rand Brandes
Institution: Colby College
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1479705017