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A Chastened Communion: Modern Irish Poetry and Catholicism
A Chastened Communion traces a new path through the well-traversed field of modern Irish poetry by revealing how critical engagement with Catholicism shapes the trajectory of the poetic careers of Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanagh, John Montague, Seamus Heaney, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Paul Durcan, and Paula Meehan. Underlying their divergent poetic styles and thematic concerns, Auge discerns a common pattern. He shows how a demythologizing critique of some elemental features of Irish Catholicism-the sacraments of confession and the Eucharist, the pilgrimages to holy wells and Lough Derg, the veneration of the Blessed Virgin, the imperative to self-sacrifice, the narrowly patriarchal nature of the institution-elicit, for each of these poets, a radical reshaping of these traditional religious phenomena. Auge provides compelling new readings of major Irish poets and establishes a basis for distinguishing modern Irish poetry from its Anglophone counterparts.
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A Chastened Communion: Modern Irish Poetry and Catholicism
A Chastened Communion traces a new path through the well-traversed field of modern Irish poetry by revealing how critical engagement with Catholicism shapes the trajectory of the poetic careers of Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanagh, John Montague, Seamus Heaney, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Paul Durcan, and Paula Meehan. Underlying their divergent poetic styles and thematic concerns, Auge discerns a common pattern. He shows how a demythologizing critique of some elemental features of Irish Catholicism-the sacraments of confession and the Eucharist, the pilgrimages to holy wells and Lough Derg, the veneration of the Blessed Virgin, the imperative to self-sacrifice, the narrowly patriarchal nature of the institution-elicit, for each of these poets, a radical reshaping of these traditional religious phenomena. Auge provides compelling new readings of major Irish poets and establishes a basis for distinguishing modern Irish poetry from its Anglophone counterparts.
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A Chastened Communion: Modern Irish Poetry and Catholicism

A Chastened Communion: Modern Irish Poetry and Catholicism

by Andrew Auge
A Chastened Communion: Modern Irish Poetry and Catholicism

A Chastened Communion: Modern Irish Poetry and Catholicism

by Andrew Auge

Overview

A Chastened Communion traces a new path through the well-traversed field of modern Irish poetry by revealing how critical engagement with Catholicism shapes the trajectory of the poetic careers of Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanagh, John Montague, Seamus Heaney, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Paul Durcan, and Paula Meehan. Underlying their divergent poetic styles and thematic concerns, Auge discerns a common pattern. He shows how a demythologizing critique of some elemental features of Irish Catholicism-the sacraments of confession and the Eucharist, the pilgrimages to holy wells and Lough Derg, the veneration of the Blessed Virgin, the imperative to self-sacrifice, the narrowly patriarchal nature of the institution-elicit, for each of these poets, a radical reshaping of these traditional religious phenomena. Auge provides compelling new readings of major Irish poets and establishes a basis for distinguishing modern Irish poetry from its Anglophone counterparts.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780815633297
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Publication date: 12/03/2013
Series: Irish Studies
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Andrew J. Auge is professor of English at Loras College in Iowa. His articles have been published in numerous journals, including New Hibernia Review and Contemporary Literature.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Abbreviations xiii

Introduction 1

1 Austin Clarke's (Anti-)Confessional Poetics 19

2 Kavanagh's Parochialism: A Catholic Poetics of Place 49

3 Partition and Communion in John Montague's Poetry 79

4 Transcending Sacrifice: How Heaney Makes Room for the Marvelous 108

5 Relics and Nuns in Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's Poetry: Sifting the Remains of Irish Catholicism 145

6 Paul Durcan's Priests: Refashioning Irish Masculinity 168

7 Paula Meehan's Revised Marianism: The Apparitions of "Our Lady of the Facts of Life" 194

Epilogue: Religion and Poetry in Post-Catholic Ireland 217

Notes 227

Bibliography 252

Index 265

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