Well I don't think much of the list of names for O'Brien's course -
it's just the usual suspects - but in all fairness I should point out
that Eavan Boland is a woman.
Tony
> Hello, it seems to me that the above brief description stands for the
> standard kind of academic outline of a course based of what is
> classically
> Irish: the notion of the 'army', the notion of Irish nationalist poets
> (who
> make this army) writing English (within and against English
> tradition), the
> notion that this army of poets has enriched English language because
> they
> have 'voices' which not only speak of Nature but of politics (unlike
> in the
> general past English tendency). No woman poet is mentioned in the
> list and
> emphasis is given to Yeats and Heaney, who are still considered the
> greatest Irish poets. The tone is one of a (moderately contained)
> pride,
> coming from an Irish-born Professor teaching in the department of
> 'English
> Literature' (which for that reason in his view should be , by now,
> called
> of Literature in English).
> I would be happy if we started as Barry Albert suggested a discussion
> about
> the present situation ion Irish verse, its themes and its developing
> ideologies.
> I would enrol for this course if I were a student. It sounds
> enthusiastically offered and relatively unexpensive.
> Have a good day.
> Erminia
>
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