Eavan Boland

Standard Name: Boland, Eavan
Birth Name: Eavan Aisling Boland
EB 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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Kate O'Brien
Lorna Reynolds and Eavan Boland liken this novel to the work of John Galsworthy , as it is the saga of several generations of an Irish family building a business and growing in wealth.
Boland, Eavan, and Kate O’Brien. “Introduction”. The Last of Summer, Virago, p. v - xv.
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Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Bishop
The strength of EB 's influence on British and Irish poetry was variously recognised during the 1980s by Andrew Motion , Seamus Heaney , James Fenton , and Eavan Boland , and during the 1990s...
Friends, Associates Kate O'Brien
One of those who stayed with KOB in Galway was the Italian novelist Ignazio Silone .
O’Brien, Kate. My Ireland. B. T. Batsford.
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The poet Eavan Boland , who felt much honoured when she met and entertained KOB soon after her...
Friends, Associates Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
ENC counts many fellow-poets among her friends, including Eavan Boland and Leland Bardwell .
Fictionalization Sappho
In the twentieth century Sappho continued full of potential for poets and prose-writers. Naomi Mitchison fictionalises her supposed school; Eavan Boland takes her as guide on an underworld journey (as Dante took Virgil); Jeanette Winterson
Cultural formation Kate O'Brien
Though KOB 's surname was an ancient name of a royal house in Ireland, she was born into an often-forgotten segment of nineteenth-century society: the Irish Catholic middle class. She calls her Irishness my accidental...

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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.