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As they say in exam-questions, compare the following sonnets:
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Someone on their way to early Mass
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will find her hog-tied
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to the chapel gates —
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O Child of Prague —
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big-eyed, anorexic.
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The lesson for today
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is pinned to her bomber jacket.
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It seems to read Keep off the Grass.
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Her lovely head has been chopped
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and changed.
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For Beatrice, whose fathers
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knew Louis Quinze,
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to have come to this, her perruque
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of tar and feathers.
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Notes
Louis MacNeice, The Poetry of W. B. Yeats (London, 1967) p. 25.
Letter to Lady Gregory, 11 May 1916, The Letters of W. B. Yeats, edited by Allan Wade (London, 1954) p. 613.
Heroic Styles, Field Day Pamphlet, no. 4 (1984) p. 18.
The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse (Oxford, 1986), Introduction, p. xxvii.
Not only The Poetry of W. B. Yeats, but Modern Poetry (1938) and his discussion of Yeats in essays and reviews bear witness to this.
‘Envoy and Mr Kavanagh’, Escape from the Anthill (Gigginstown, Westmeath, 1985) p. 156.
‘An Interview with Derek Mahon’, by Terence Brown, Poetry Ireland Review, no. 14 (autumn 1985) p. 17.
See review of Poetry Now, edited by G. S. Fraser, and Mavericks, edited by Howard Sergeant and Dannie Abse, London Magazine, 4, no. 4 (Apr. 1957).
The Faber Book of Irish Verse (London, 1974), ‘In the Irish Grain’, (Introduction) p. 37.
‘Interview with Seamus Heaney’, Crane Bag 1, no. 1 (spring 1977) p. 62.
‘A Conversation with Paul Muldoon’, Chicago Review, 35, no. 1 (autumn 1985) p. 77.
Irish Poetry: the Thirties Generation, edited by Michael Smith (Dublin, 1983), Preface, p. 2.
Interview with Mervyn Wall, by Michael Smith, ibid., p. 85.
‘Inventing Irelands’, RTE/UCD Lectures, Ireland: Dependence and Independence, Crane Bag, 8, no. 1 (spring, 1984) p. 13.
Irish Poetry After Yeats, edited by Maurice Harmon (Dublin, 1979), Introduction, p. 28.
Terence Brown, Northern Voices, (Dublin, 1975) p. 220.
Ibid., p. 215.
Tree Verse, ‘An Alphabet of Literary Prejudices’, Windmill, 9 (1948) p. 39.
A. T. Q. Stewart, The Narrow Ground (London, 1977) p. 180.
Seamus Heaney, Preoccupations (London, 1980) pp. 119, 124, 121.
Interview with Paul Muldoon, in Viewpoints, edited by John Haffenden (London, 1981) pp. 130–1.
Given at Kavanagh’s Yearly, Carrickmacross, Nov. 1985, and published in revised form in the present volume.
Lough Derg (London, 1978), Foreword, pp. vii–ix.
The Penguin Book of Irish Verse (Harmondsworth, 1981), Note to the Second Edition, pp. 41–2.
Quoted by Oliver MacDonagh in States of Mind (London, 1983) p. 19.
The Faber Book of Political Verse (London, 1986), Introduction, p. 43.
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Longley, E. (1989). Poetic Forms and Social Malformations. In: Brown, T., Grene, N. (eds) Tradition and Influence in Anglo-Irish Poetry. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09470-7_10
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