Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Part One. The Eighteenth Century
6. Introduction 3
7. Chapter 1. Swift and His World 7
8. Chapter 2. Divergent Directions: Beyond and Within the Pale 33
9. Chapter 3. Goldsmith and the Beginnings of Romanticism 42
10. Chapter 4. Political Poetry at the End of the Century 55
11. Epilogue. The Other Ireland 63
12. Part II. The Nineteenth Century
13. Introduction 69
14. Chapter 5. Ireland in Transition: Thomas Moore 73
15. Chapter 6. Ireland Translated 81
16. Chapter 7. Ireland Anglicized 116
17. Chapter 8. Ireland Politicized 134
18. Part Three. The Literary Revival
19. Introduction 163
20. Chapter 9. Translation: Gael, Gall, and Peasant 169
21. Chapter 10. Celticism and Romanticism 177
22. Chapter 11. Celticism and Feminism 194
23. Chapter 12. Early Yeats 220
24. Chapter 13. Other Visions and Revisions 231
25. Part Four. Poetry in Modern Ireland
26. Introduction 267
27. Chapter 14. Yeats 273
28. Chapter 15. Exits from the Revival 283
29. Chapter 16. New Perspectives at Midcentury 301
30. Chapter 17. Covert Voices: Women Poets after the Revival 319
31. Chapter 18. The North 329
32. Epilogue: Some Observations on Contemporary Poetry in Ireland 352
33. Notes 365
34. Bibliography 405
35. Index 417