{"product_id":"irish-classics-convergences-inventories-of-the-present-9780674005051","title":"Irish Classics (Convergences: Inventories of the Present)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA celebration of the tenacious life of the enduring Irish classics  this book by one of Irish writings most eloquent readers offers a brilliant and accessible survey of the greatest works since 1600 in Gaelic and English  which together have shaped one of the worlds most original literary cultures.  In the course of his discussion of the great seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Gaelic poems of dispossession  and of later work in that language that refuses to die  Declan Kiberd provides vivid and idiomatic translations that bring the Irish texts alive for the English-speaking reader.  Extending from the Irish poets who confronted modernity as a cataclysm  and who responded by using traditional forms in novel and radical ways  to the great modern practitioners of such paradoxically conservative and revolutionary writing  Kiberds work embraces three sorts of Irish classics: those of awesome beauty and internal rigor  such as works by the Gaelic bards  Yeats  Synge  Beckett  and Joyce; those that generate a myth so powerful as to obscure the individual writer and unleash an almost superhuman force  such as the Cuchulain story  the lament for Art OLaoghaire  and even Dracula; and those whose power exerts a palpable influence on the course of human action  such as Swifts Drapiers Letters  the speeches of Edmund Burke  or the autobiography of Wolfe Tone. The book closes with a moving and daring coda on the Anglo-Irish agreement  claiming that the seeds of such a settlement were sown in the works of Irish literature.  A delight to read throughout  Irish Classics is a fitting tribute to the works it reads so well and inspires us to read  and read again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789745578037,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674005058","price":52.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674005051.jpg?v=1784696114","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/irish-classics-convergences-inventories-of-the-present-9780674005051","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}