Table of Contents

Introduction A Note on the Texts Part I 1485-1603: Verse from Tudor Ireland Part II 1603-1641: Early Stuart Verse Part III 1641-1660: From the Rising to the Restoration Part IV 1660-1685: The Reign of Charles II Part V 1685-1702: Jacobite and Williamite Ireland Sources of the texts Index

About the Author

Dr Andrew Carpenter, Department of English Literature, University College, Dublin, is the joint founding editor of The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing Volumes I-III, and Verse in English From Eighteenth Century Ireland. He is a former publisher of collector's titles under the Cadenus Press, a bibliophile and expert on Eighteenth Century Literature.

Reviews

"Prior to the 18th century, verse was often an oral account of ordinary events, and written verses were generally circulated among one's social set or printed for wider distribution. Carpenter (Univ. College Dublin) has collected surviving works of men and women residing in Ireland from early Tudor times through the Stuart years. Although many of these individuals would not have considered themselves poets, their verses in English offer an outsider's view of Ireland. Like his previous anthology, Verse in English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland (CH, Nov'98), the present collection demonstrates the number and variety of poets writing at the time, only a few of whom are well known. Carpenter's material ranges in every genre from love songs and hymns to political lampoons. In addition, a few dramatic prologues and epilogues offer a glimpse of the cultural and political milieu of English speakers in Ireland in the 16th and 17th centuries. Although only a few women are represented in the text, the survey is a balanced summary of a diverse and prolific literary scene. Summing Up: Recommended. Libraries with special collections in Irish studies or late Renaissance and Restoration literature; upper-division undergraduates and above." -- M. H. Kealy, Immaculata University in Choice