Contents: Constitution, Language and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Irish Poetry, Robert Welch; Yeats: the Creation of an Audience, Seamus Deane; Yeats and the Re-making of Synge, Nicholas Grene; Austin Clarke: Tradition, Memory and Our Lot, Peter Denman; Louis MacNeice's Ireland, Terence Brown; Patrick Kavanagh's Parish Myth, Antoinette Quinn; An Absence of Influence: Three Modernist Poets, Gerald Dawe; Derek Mahon's Humane Perspective, Brendan Kennelly; Poetic Forms and Social Malformations, Edna Longley; The Placeless Heaven: Another Look at Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney; Index.

Contents: Constitution, Language and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Irish Poetry, Robert Welch; Yeats: the Creation of an Audience, Seamus Deane; Yeats and the Re-making of Synge, Nicholas Grene; Austin Clarke: Tradition, Memory and Our Lot, Peter Denman; Louis MacNeice's Ireland, Terence Brown; Patrick Kavanagh's Parish Myth, Antoinette Quinn; An Absence of Influence: Three Modernist Poets, Gerald Dawe; Derek Mahon's Humane Perspective, Brendan Kennelly; Poetic Forms and Social Malformations, Edna Longley; The Placeless Heaven: Another Look at Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney; Index.