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
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
Literary responses Penelope Shuttle
The poet Anne Stevenson , whose review offered these summaries of Shuttle's imagery, marvelled at the vulnerability of a dead-serious poetic voice(without the defences of aggression, wit, irony, mockery or word-play)
Stevenson, Anne. “Hearing the downpour”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4059, p. 65.
65
which makes...
Literary responses Penelope Shuttle
Reviewers were respectful, even enthusiastic. PS was likened to poets as various as Eavan Boland and Emily Dickinson , and praised for energy, for vigorous and various abundance,and for attention to the erogenous zones...
Textual Production Anne Stevenson
AS 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.
71ff
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Stevenson
While calling Boland's poetry unquestionably valuable,
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press.
80
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Stevenson
Essays or chapters, some of them controversial, are devoted to Sylvia Plath , Elizabeth Bishop , Eavan Boland , Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill , Dana Gioia , Seamus Heaney , Louis MacNeice , and R. S. Thomas

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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.