Woven Shades of Green: An Anthology of Irish Nature Literature

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Woven Shades of Green is an annotated selection of literature from authors who focus on the natural world and the beauty of Ireland. The anthology begins with the Irish monks and their largely anonymous nature poetry, written at a time when Ireland was heavily forested. A section follows devoted to the changing Irish landscape, through both deforestation and famine, including the nature poetry of William Allingham, James Clarence Mangan, essays from Thomas Gainford and William Thackerary, and novel excerpts from William Carleton and Emily Lawless. The anthology then turns to the nature literature of the Irish Literary Revival, including Yeats and Synge, but also the poetry of many others, and an excerpt from George Moore's novel The Lake. Part four of the anthology shifts to modern Irish nature poetry, beginning with Patrick Kavanaugh, and continuing with late twentieth-century, early twenty-first-century poetry of Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, and others. Finally, the anthology concludes with a section on various Irish naturalist writers, and the unique prose and philosophical nature writing of John Moriarty, followed by a comprehensive list of environmental organizations in Ireland, which seek to preserve the natural beauty of this unique country. Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword Preface Part I. Early Irish Nature Poetry Introduction to Part I The Mystery Deer’s Cry or St. Patrick’s Breastplate St. Columcille of Iona Columcille Fecit Caelius Sedulius Invocation Anonymous Early Irish Nature Poetry The Blackbird by Belfast Lough The Scribe The White Lake The Lark The Hermit’s Song King and Hermit Song of the Sea Summer Has Come Song of Summer Summer Is Gone A Song of Winter Arran Buile Suibhne Notes to Part I Part II. Nature Writing and the Changing Irish Landscape Introduction to Part II Thomas Gainsford A Description of Ireland: A.D. 1618 William Allingham Wishing The Fairies The Lover and Birds Among the Heather In a Spring Grove The Ruined Chapel William Hamilton Drummond The Giant’s Causeway, Book First James Clarence Mangan The Dawning of the Day The Fair Hills of Eiré, O! The Lovely Land: On a Landscape Painted by Maclise William Makepeace Thackeray From Irish Sketchbook William Carleton From The Black Prophet Emily Lawless From Hurrish: A Study Notes to Part II Part III. Nature and the Irish Literary Revival Introduction to Part III Katharine Tynan The Children of Lir High Summer Indian Summer Nymphs St. Francis to the Birds The Birds’ Bargain The Garden The Wind That Shakes the Barley Æ (George William Russell) By the Margin of the Great Deep Oversoul The Great Breath The Voice of the Waters A New World A Vision of Beauty Carrowmore Creation The Winds of Angus The Nuts of Knowledge Children of Lir From The Candle of Vision William Butler Yeats Coole Park, 1929 Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931 Who Goes with Fergus? Down by the Salley Gardens In the Seven Woods The Shadowy Waters (Introductory Lines) The Cat and the Moon The Fairy Pedant The Lake Isle of Innisfree The Madness of King Goll The Song of Wandering Aengus The Stolen Child The Two Trees The White Birds The Wild Swans at Coole Eva Gore-Booth The Dreamer Re-Incarnation Secret Waters The Little Waves of Breffny The Weaver John Millington Synge In Kerry To the Oaks of Glencree Prelude In Glencullen On an Island From The Aran Islands Riders to the Sea George Augustus Moore From The Lake Padraic Colum A Drover A Cradle Song Across the Door The Crane Dublin Roads River Mates Notes to Part III Part IV. Modern Irish Nature Poetry Introduction to Part IV Patrick Kavanagh Poplars Lilacs in the City October Canal Bank Walk Having to Live in the Country Inniskeen Road: July Evening Tarry Flynn Primrose Wet Evening in April Louis MacNeice The Sunlight on the Garden Wolves Tree Party Seamus Heaney Death of a Naturalist The Salmon Fisher to the Salmon Limbo St. Kevin and the Blackbird Eavan Boland The Lost Land The River Mountain Time This Moment Ode to Suburbia Escape A Sparrow Hawk in the Suburbs Moya Cannon Bees under Snow Eavesdropping Two Ivory Swans Winter View from Binn Bhriocáin Primavera The Tube-Case Makers Crannog Hazelnuts John Montague All Legendary Obstacles The Wild Dog Rose The Trout Michael Longley The Osprey Badger Hedgehog Kingfisher Robin Out of the Sea Her Mime of the Lame Seagull Carrigskeewaun Saint Francis to the Birds Derek Mahon The Seasons Achill Aphrodite’s Pool The Mayo Tao Penshurst Place The Woods The Dream Play Leaves Seán Lysaght Golden Eagle The Clare Island Survey Goldcrest From Bird Sweeney Desmond Egan The Great Blasket Sunday Evening Meadowsweet Snow Snow Snow Snow A Pigeon Dead Envoi Mary O’Malley Absent The Man of Aran Porpoises The Price of Silk Is Paid in Stone The Storm Liadan with a Mortgage Briefly Tastes the Stars Rosemarie Rowley Osborn O h-Aimhirgín; A Cry from the Heart of a Poet—Morning in Beara The Blackbird of Derry of the Cairn In Praise of the Hill between of Howth Blind Seamus McCourt: Welcome to the Bird Kitty Dwyer Notes to Part IV Part V. The Literature of Irish Naturalists Introduction to Part V John Tyndall Belfast Address Robert Lloyd Praeger From The Way That I Went Michael Viney From A Year’s Turning From Another Life Tim Robinson From Connemara: Listening to the Wind John Moriarty From Invoking Ireland Notes to Part V Appendix: Environmental Organizations in Ireland Acknowledgments Bibliography Index About the Editor