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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Ann Jellicoe
Among other givers of the Judith Wilson lecture on poetry or drama was the Irish poet Eavan Boland in 1988. AJ 's essay was included in Robert W. Corrigan 's The Making of Theatre: From...
Textual Production Elaine Feinstein
EF 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 ,...
Literary responses Elaine Feinstein
The New Yorker was grudging
“Books Briefly Noted. Anna of All the Russias”. The New Yorker.
but Eavan Boland wrote in the Spectator that Akhmatova's luck ha[d] held in provoking such a strong, vivid, and freshly informative biography.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Elaine Feinstein Page. http://www.elainefeinstein.com/.
Textual Production Ruth Fainlight
Asked about contemporary poets who interest her, RF named two Americans (Gjertrud Schnackenberg and Anne Carson ), and in England (which she was defining rather loosely) Penelope Shuttle and Sarah Maguire , followed by...
Literary responses Carol Ann Duffy
This book garnered the Forward Poetry Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, and another Scottish Arts Council Book Award.
Duffy, Carol Ann. Selected Poems. Penguin.
prelims
“The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association.
Eavan Boland called CADone of the freshest and bravest talents to emerge in British poetry—any poetry—for years.
Duffy, Carol Ann. Selected Poems. Penguin.
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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...

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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.