Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Eavan Boland
Standard Name: Boland, Eavan
Birth Name: Eavan Aisling Boland
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was a leading Irish poet (latterly part resident in the USA) who also established a reputation as a critic writing on literary issues of feminism, nationalism, and modernism. Her work appeared in many anthologies as well as her own volumes, and she lectured internationally.
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published another novel, Pray for the Wanderer, in which, says Eavan Boland
, she purged her disappointment with de Valera
's Ireland.
Boland, Eavan, and Kate O’Brien. “Introduction”. The Last of Summer, Virago, p. v - xv.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
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published a critique of Eavan Boland
's Outside History (not her poetry collection of that title, but an article in PN Review no. 75) for the same journal's no. 88.
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press.
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Textual Production
Elaine Feinstein
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followed her life of Pushkin
the following year with After Pushkin, an anthology of translations and imitations of his work, and responses to it, by contributors including Ted Hughes
, Seamus Heaney
,...
While calling Boland's poetry unquestionably valuable,
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press.
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AS
questions her arguments about history. Boland
's poems, she feels, give an impression of a grave, even solemn intelligence, very little ruffled by the politics of...
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Texts
Boland, Eavan. “The Wrong Way”. Strong Words, edited by W. N. Herbert and Matthew Hollis, Bloodaxe Books, 2000, pp. 215-18.
MacLiammóir, Micheál, and Eavan Boland. W.B. Yeats and His World. Thames and Hudson, 1971.