Volume 34, Number 3 · February 26, 1987
The Luck of the Irish
By Denis Donoghue
The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse
edited by Thomas Kinsella
Oxford University Press, 423 pp., $18.95
The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry
edited by Paul Muldoon
Faber and Faber, 415 pp., $13.95 (paper)
I should explain how Ireland came to have its poetry in four languages, Irish, English, Latin, and Norman French.
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