Yeats as Precursor

STEVEN MATTHEWS has obtained degrees from the universities of Cambridge and York. He is currently a senior lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of Irish Poetry: Politics, History, Negotiation, and co-editor, with Keith Williams of Rewriting The Thirties: Modernism and After.

'...a thorough and highly engaged reading of contemporary Irish poetry from the outbreak of the 'Troubles' to the present day... a very useful volume indeed.' - Glen Hooper, The Lecturer

• Acknowledgements Yeats: Influence, Tradition, and the Problematics of Reading 'The Terror of His Vision': Yeats and Irish Poetry Inevitable Abstractions: Yeats and British Poetry Possession and Dispossession: Yeats and American Poetry Select Bibliography Index