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The Protestant elders: Louis MacNeice and John Hewitt (Northern Ireland).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Protestant elders: Louis MacNeice and John Hewitt (Northern Ireland)./
Author:	Robertson, Sam.
Description:	234 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-11, Section: A, page: 4060.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-11A.
Subject:	Literature, English. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3114221
ISBN:	0496617141

The Protestant elders: Louis MacNeice and John Hewitt (Northern Ireland).
Robertson, Sam.

The Protestant elders: Louis MacNeice and John Hewitt (Northern Ireland). - 234 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-11, Section: A, page: 4060.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2004.

In 1907, the year both MacNeice and Hewitt were born in the region, Northern Ireland did not possess a distinctive poetic tradition. My study contends that both poets initially sought escape from confining attitudes by infusing their poetry with a skeptical critique of existing aesthetic and social assumptions. However, this approach did not provide a direction for the development of their own poetic; they knew what they didn't like, not what they wished to create themselves. Eventually, I argue, they recognized that their scope was restrictive and began to embody their doubts with a delicate mixture of imagination and intellect. The two poets had different styles and preoccupations, yet I aim to show how each of them strengthened his poetry with a common appreciation of otherness. In order to break free from commitment to time and place, each poet intensified this sense of otherness in himself.

ISBN: 0496617141Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017709
Literature, English.

The Protestant elders: Louis MacNeice and John Hewitt (Northern Ireland).
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520 $a My project refers to the work of poets such as Wordsworth, Frost, Eliot and Stevens in order to provide a larger context for the poetry under discussion. I also use the aesthetic theories of critics as diverse as Coleridge, T. S. Eliot, Paul de Man and Denis Donoghue. I discuss traditional strains of philosophy---for instance idealism vs. materialism---because they add another dimension to understanding these poets. This varied approach is necessary because I am interested in more than the individual careers of Hewitt and MacNeice. The transitions these writers made can be understood as typical poetic developments. The dissertation also considers what separates better-realized poetry from less successful poetry. The project has implications for studying the poetics of many contemporary poets, not just those from Northern Ireland. Successful poets today try to bridge, and not just identify, the gap between experience and meaning. Rather than position themselves in a confrontational relationship with the past and present, writers must explore ideas of difference with sympathetic imaginations. Nor should they be satisfied with a solipsistic rendering of a psychological landscape the reader has no basis for intuiting.
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