History of Irish Women's Poetry, Hardback

A comprehensive survey of the field of Irish women's poetry, this book will be of intense interest to students, researchers, and general readers alike. Coverings all historical periods - early medieval, Renaissance, eighteenth-century, modern and contemporary, it closely reads poetry through many prisms - mythology, gender, history, the nation.

Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises

Editor(s): David (University of Aberdeen) Wheatley