A collection of essays, reviews and introductions - many with a marked political slant - plus some overtly political writings, by a poet and critic who is also a champion of British and Irish dissent. Northern Ireland looms large, but Paulin's main concern is with artistic excellence.
Author(s): Tom Paulin
Edition: 1
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Year: 1996
Language: English
Pages: 318
City: London
Introduction
The Making of a Loyalist
The British Presence in Ulysses
Paisley’s Progress
The Earnest Puppet: Edward Carson
A New Look at the Language Question
The Man from No Part: Louis MacNeice
In the Salt Mines: Louis’ Pick
A Terminal Ironist: Derek Mahon
The Fuse and the Fire: Northern Protestant Oratory and Writing
The Crack
Sublime and Ridiklus
Political Verse
Shakespeare the Catholic
T. S. Eliot and Anti-Semitism
Strinkling Droppies: John Clare
The Tender Voice: Thomas Hardy
The Phallic Thumb of Love: Whitman and Hopkins
Lawrence and Decency
Formal Pleasure: The Short Story
Writing to the Moment: Elizabeth Bishop
The Dean’s Bellyful: Jonathan Swift
Billy’s Victim: John Dryden
Vernacular Verse
Living Ginger: Jack B. Yeats
American Primitives
The Critic at the Breakfast Table
The Disinterested Critic
Theory
Scholarship
Doubt
Body Language
Solid Sentimentality
Polemic
Timing Praise
Going to Law or The Weight of a Man’s Balls
Lingo Jingo
Who Comes First?
Ambiguity
Getting It Wrong
Camp
Deep Culture
