Five Short Reviews
1997; University of Iowa; Volume: 27; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.17077/0021-065x.4826
ISSN2330-0361
Autores Tópico(s)Irish and British Studies
Resumoplanted to Ireland, where he lives and teaches in Belfast.Unlike some other Irish poets who have made the transatlantic crossing in that di rection?Brooklyn-born John Montague being the most notable among them?Agee focusses in this collection on an all-encompassing empa thy with the natural world, of which he has a coherent and even clas sical vision.Although he notes in passing the imprints of human his tory and conflict in the natural surround?whatpoet could fail to do so in Ireland??it is the landscape itself with which he feels most at home.The first landscape is that of his native North America, specifi cally New England?oneNew World region whose pastoral terrain most closely resembles that of his adopted European isle?where the "unretainable past" is nevertheless preserved, "burnt in the brow of memory."And he dwells with affection on the green contours of the Irish coastlands, drawing on the Imagists, Japanese haiku, Hopkins,Yeats, and the spirits of the Celtic past for his inspiration.
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