The Legacy of Yeats in Contemporary Irish Poetry (Critical Essay) The Legacy of Yeats in Contemporary Irish Poetry (Critical Essay)

The Legacy of Yeats in Contemporary Irish Poetry (Critical Essay‪)‬

Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies 2004, Autumn-Winter, 34, 2

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Derek Mahon and Peter Fallon opened their Penguin anthology of Contemporary Irish Poetry by declaring unequivocally that 'Among the contours of modern Irish poetry the work of Yeats is Everest. His poems and his other activities in the pursuit of a new national identity represent a monument which, more often than not, obscured the achievement of younger writers'. (1) The editors imply that most contemporary Irish poets have of necessity sought to get out from under the cold shadow or the blinding glare of Yeats's imperious presence, scaling instead the more accessible peaks of Louis MacNeice or Patrick Kavanagh. As Desmond O'Grady wrote to Mahon in a verse-letter, But then he warned Mahon:

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Reference
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2004
22 September
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
45
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PUBLISHER
Irish University Review
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