Redshaw gathers twenty-one original essays on the influential Irish poet and novelist, which provide a critical context for Montagues Collected Poems (1995) and the tales and portraits in Company (2001). Montague played a pivotal role in the international evolution of Irish poetry from the late 1950s in Dublin through the worst years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Here, American, English, and European critics and scholars touch upon every aspect of Montagues essays, stories, and poetry. Redshaw offers a survey of the criticism and a descriptive checklist.
A stunning tribute to a masterful poet [with] seminal
essays by some of the finest critics of contemporary Irish
poetry . . . mandatory reading. -Michael Patrick Gillespie, Marquette University, President, The American Conference for Irish Studies.
...an exploration into great modern Irish literarture, a truly necessary and valuable work that spans Montague's long career while commenting clearly and thoroughly on a poet of significant stature and one quite worthy of many future studies.
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