Object lessons: the life of the woman and the poet in our time

In this important prose work, one of our major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully uncovers the powerful drama of how these lives affect one another; how the tradition of womanhood and the histo...

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Main Author: Boland, Eavan 1944-2020 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York [u.a.] Norton 1995
Edition:1. ed.
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Summary:In this important prose work, one of our major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully uncovers the powerful drama of how these lives affect one another; how the tradition of womanhood and the historic vocation of the poet act as revealing illuminations of the other. Included are autobiographical pieces about a woman living in Ireland, about a grandmother, a childhood. In the second section, Boland details the part of the life in which the vocation of the poet meets the life of the woman.
Physical Description:XVI, 254 S.
ISBN:0393037169