Mistaken Identities: Poetry and Northern Ireland

by Peter McDonald

This study addresses questions of Northern Irish poetry and politics through close readings of a number of important writers. McDonald delivers a searching critique of nationalist cultural assumptions about Northern Ireland through illuminating readings of the province's best modern poets, including Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin, Louis MacNeice, Derek Mahon, Paul Muldoon, and others.

236 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997