Eavan Boland

Standard Name: Boland, Eavan
Birth Name: Eavan Aisling Boland
EB was a leading Irish poet (latterly part resident in the USA) who also established a reputation as a critic writing on literary issues of feminism, nationalism, and modernism. Her work appeared in many anthologies as well as her own volumes, and she lectured internationally.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Kate O'Brien
KOB published another novel, Pray for the Wanderer, in which, says Eavan Boland , she purged her disappointment with de Valera 's Ireland.
Boland, Eavan, and Kate O’Brien. “Introduction”. The Last of Summer, Virago, 1990, p. v - xv.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Textual Production Ruth Fainlight
Asked about contemporary poets who interest her, RF named two Americans (Gjertrud Schnackenberg and Anne Carson ), and in England (which she was defining rather loosely) Penelope Shuttle and Sarah Maguire , followed by...
Textual Production Elaine Feinstein
EF followed her life of Pushkin the following year with After Pushkin, an anthology of translations and imitations of his work, and responses to it, by contributors including Ted Hughes , Seamus Heaney ,...
Textual Production Anne Stevenson
AS published a critique of Eavan Boland 's Outside History (not her poetry collection of that title, but an article in PN Review no. 75) for the same journal's no. 88.
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press, 1998.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Stevenson
While calling Boland's poetry unquestionably valuable,
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press, 1998.
80
AS questions her arguments about history. Boland 's poems, she feels, give an impression of a grave, even solemn intelligence, very little ruffled by the politics of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Stevenson
Essays or chapters, some of them controversial, are devoted to Sylvia Plath , Elizabeth Bishop , Eavan Boland , Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill , Dana Gioia , Seamus Heaney , Louis MacNeice , and R. S. Thomas

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Texts

Boland, Eavan. “The Wrong Way”. Strong Words, edited by W. N. Herbert and Matthew Hollis, Bloodaxe Books, 2000, pp. 215-18.
MacLiammóir, Micheál, and Eavan Boland. W.B. Yeats and His World. Thames and Hudson, 1971.