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" The poetry of The Nation, 1842-1848 : "
Bradley, William.
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Latin Dissertation
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1094893
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TLets363582
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Bradley, William.
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The poetry of The Nation, 1842-1848 :\ Bradley, William.
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University of London
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1977
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1977
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Ph.D.
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Chapter One examines the personal and literary background of thefounders or The Nation, studies Duffy's first newspaper, The Vindicator(1839-42), but finds it unimpressive an a literary organ.Chapter Two examines the true poetry policy of The Nation, producesevidence of an unexpected variety in the poetry of the first year butconcedes that the tone of the year's political poetry is responsible forthe derogatory terms coat frequently used about "Young Ireland" poetry.Chapter Three examines the poetry of year two, dispels the myth ofuniformity of style and tone, even in political poetry, and demonatratesthe movement away from political and propagandistic verse. It furtherproves that non political poets considerably outnumber political in yearthree and that The Elation adopted a policy for poetry much more liberalthan it had originally proposed.Chapter Four again demonstrates that the poetry of year four waspredominantly non political and argues that this year produced the paper'sbest poetry in the Gaelic translations of Mangan. It further shows howthe movement away from political verse continued in year five, a year inwhich dependence on the poetesses "Mary", "Iva" and "Speraaza" becameconsiderable and notes that disillusionment with O'Connell was the maintheme in political poetry. The chapter concludes by regretting; the dimmingof The Nation's noble literary experiment in year six when, after the outbreakof revolution in France, the paper allowed its literary columns tobe flooded with wretched political verse.Chapter Five argues that Yeats's main criticisms of "Young Ireland"poetry were based mainly on the unrepresentative anthology. The Spiritof the Nation and that personal animosity influenced his literary pronouncements after his defeat by Cavan Duffy in the Nov Irish Librarydispute.Chapter Six argues the need for a properly representative anthologyof "Young Ireland" poetry.
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