| Title : | Other Edens : The Life and Work of Brian Coffey | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Benjamin Keatinge, Editor ; Aengus Woods, Editor | | Publisher: | Dublin : Irish Academic Press | | Publication Date: | 2010 | | Pagination: | xv, 288 p. | | Size: | 24 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-7165-2910-1 | | General note: | Includes bibliographical references (p.[261]-280)
Includes index (p.281-288) | | Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) | | Descriptors: | Coffey, Brian
Poetry - English literature
| | Class number: | 821.914 | | Abstract: | There are perhaps few Irish poets on whom critical opinion is so divided as Brian Coffey. Pioneering scholarship by Stan Smith (whose 1974 essay 'On Other Grounds: The Poetry of Brian Coffey' was the first serious discussion of his verse) and J.C.C. Mays (notably the 1975 Irish University Review: Brian Coffey Special Issue, in which Advent first appeared) has been followed up in notable contributions by Gerald Dawe (1989), Jack Morgan (1993), Alex Davis (1995) and Donal Moriarty (2000).! Against this, Coffey has received less than his due from the Irish critical establishment, with parsimonious inclusions in major anthologies2 and negative judgements from the likes of Alan Gillis and Justin Quinn, both of whom underestimate Coffey's distinctive voice in their recent studies of modern Irish poetry.3 This new volume of essays on Brian Coffey has its origins in a centenary symposium held in October 2005 at Trinity College Dublin celebrating Coffey's life and work. The symposium, which included both academics and contemporary poets, was held under the heading 'Continuings' taken from Coffey's best-known poem 'Missouri Sequence': 'Beginnings we see, / and continuings, / and endings in due course' (PV, p.83). A modest affair, it stood in stark contrast to the expansive celebrations held for both the 2004 anniversary of Bloomsday and the 2006 centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth. As wholly appropriate as such festivities were, in this context the contrast serves to underline the value of admittance into the higher echelons of the Irish literary canon and, less comfortably, the price of its refusal. Attention to Coffey's work has, of course, been discontinuous, ressembling the 'broken line' of Irish Modernism identified by Alex Davis in his book A Broken Line: Denis Devlin and Irish Poetic Modernism (2000). But, as this volume shows, there are continuities too. Indeed, Coffey's persistent voice may have disappeared from view.... | | Contents note: | Augustus Young: Seeing Brian Coffey: 'word hidden for all'; Gerald Dawe: Brian Coffey : Opposing the Inevitable; Maria Johnston: 'Well-made things are worth songs' : The Music of Third Person; Geoffrey Squires : Eight Lines of Coffey : A Note on Prosody; Sandra O'Connell: Brian Coffey and George Reavey : A Friendship of lasting Importance; Thomas Dillon Redshaw: Le Livre d'artiste : Mallarme, Reavey, Coffey; J.C.C. Mays: Brian Coffey's Review of Beckett's Murphy : 'Take warning while you praise'; Brian Coffey, with Editors' Note: More and/or Less than Fifty Years Ago; Benjamin Keatinge: 'Missouri Sequence' and the Search for a Habitat; James Matthew Wilson: Brian Coffey, Jacques Maritain and 'Missouri Sequence'; Aengus Woods: Brian Coffey's Metaphysics of Love; Billy Mills: Coffey/Dante/Pound : A Personal Encounter; Harry Gilonis: Mapping Half of Advent; John Parsons: Brian Coffey and the Two Fat Ladies; Waclaw Grzybowski: Homeric Spirituality : The Metaphor of the Heroic in Death of Hektor; Andrew Goodspeed: 'Hektor across three thousand years' : Antiquity and the Modern Moment; Michael Smith: Coffey with TV : A Personal Memoir; Kit Fryatt: 'Must not attempt escape/from here and now' : Maurice Scully Reading Brian Coffey; John Coffey: Brian Coffey : A Child's Memories; Thomas Dillon Redshaw: Descriptive Checklist of Books and Pamphlets by Brian Coffey; | | Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=14287 |
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