Eavan Boland Summary

During an interview in 1979, Eavan Boland renounced "the evasion out of fear from some realities, and the folly of that evasion, because the realities catch up with you." Appropriately, she spoke of r... Read more

In the following essay, Allen-Randolph discusses the relationship among the poems in Boland's In Her Own Image, the female body, and the representation of women in patriarchal culture. Alternat... Read more

In the following essay, Robertson analyzes Boland's subversion of the male tradition in her poetry. In his Yeats, Harold Bloom suggests that the greatest influence on a poet is his precursors a... Read more

In the following review, Smith asserts that Boland's In a Time of Violence "counters any notion that poetry has retreated from the public forum or shies away from issues of great pitch a... Read more

In the following essay, Henry analyzes the connection between Boland's poetry collection, In a Time of Violence, and her collection of essays, An Origin Like Water, and complains that the two w... Read more

In the following excerpt, Baker discusses Boland's "double stance" toward traditional Irish poetry. Eavan Boland is only five years younger than Seamus Heaney, and she is the auth... Read more

In the following essay, Consalvo argues that "Boland is a literary voice which cannot, and must not, be left to reside in the marginalia of the Irish literary canon." Eavan Boland'... Read more

In the following review, Donoghue analyzes several of Boland's poems and asserts, "Eavan Boland's best poems seem to me those in which she writes without apparent fuss or politica... Read more

In the following essay, Hagen and Zelman assert that Boland aims to “repossess” her place within the Irish literary tradition. From Yeats and the Celtic Revival onward, Irish poets have ... Read more

In the following essay, Clutterbuck addresses the critical reaction to issues of feminism and nationalism in Boland's verse. This article examines Irish critical responses to a central issue in... Read more

In the following essay, Keen places the poetry of Boland and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill in relation to their writings on gender, nationalism, and history. In November 1994, the Irish government collap... Read more

In the following essay, Shifrer examines the role of fabrics in Boland's poetry. By focusing on the role of fabrics in Eavan Boland's poetry, I hope to provide readers with a better key ... Read more

In the following essay, Stevenson regards Boland's encounter with the Achill woman, chronicled in her verse and her essay “Outside History,” as an important moment in her life and... Read more

In the following essay, Raschke asserts that “Boland's Outside History and In a Time of Violence use the concrete, physical world to revise notions of what sustains, to query historiogra... Read more

In the following essay, Sullivan perceives Boland's “revisionary struggle” with Irish mythology, which depicts women in subordinate and passive roles as an attempt to “repo... Read more

In the following excerpt, Daniels finds similarities between the poetry of Boland and Medbh McGuckian and differentiates the poetry of The Lost Land from Boland's earlier poetic work. If one we... Read more

Comment on The Black Lace Fan my Mother Gave me I think this poem is very beautiful and quite easy to understand. Bolland describes a lot, which helps the readers to get into the poem The use of th... Read more