Negotiations: Poems in their Contexts Corcoran Paperback 9781836245056

Negotiations: Poems in their ContextsAuthor(s): Neil Corcoran\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781836245056, 978-1836245056\nSynopsis\nThis book, by the eminent poetry critic Neil Corcoran, examines the ways in which the work of significant modern Irish, British and American poets interacts with or negotiates different contexts historical, social, political, artistic and aesthetic. In Part 1 important work by David Jones, Robert Graves, Seamus Heaney and Bob Dylan is shown to negotiate poetic methods both traditional and modernist and also the work of major earlier writers to produce strikingly original new forms; and Derek Mahons prose is read in the light of these concerns. The books shows how, by negotiating in this way, their work engages profoundly with complex and sometimes terrible histories, including the First World War and the Northern Irish Troubles. Part 2 discusses the ways in whi.