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| Name: |
Eavan (Aisling) Boland | | Variant Name: |
Eavan (Aisling) Boland, Eavan Aisling Boland | | Birth Date: |
September 24, 1944 | | Nationality: |
British, Irish | | Gender: |
Female |
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Biography of Eavan (Aisling) Boland
2,910 words, approx. 10 pages
 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 reality in the plural, for in her five volumes of...


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 Yearbook of English Studies
Eavan Boland and the politics of authority in Irish poetry.(Critical Essay)
01/01/2005: 9,869 words, approx. 33 pages This article examines Eavan Boland's interrogation of the artist's necessary dilemma of representative authority in recovering the voice of the Other from outside to inside history. It argues that through this interrogation, Boland's work challenges a national literary tradition in equivocal wedlock to ideals...
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 Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
Recording the unpoetic: Eavan Boland's silences.
09/22/2007: 7,950 words, approx. 27 pages In 'Dumbness and Eloquence: A Note on English as We Write it in Ireland', Seamus Deane argues that 'Irish writing in the English language' has been, and still is, 'obsessed with the problems involved in the idea of representation', how to record in...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Michael Thurston
11,388 words, approx. 38 pages
 In the following essay, Thurston offers a thematic and stylistic examination of Boland's longer poetic works.
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Critical Essay by Albert Gelpi
8,334 words, approx. 28 pages
 In the following essay, Gelpi investigates the influence of the American poet Adrienne Rich on Boland's poetry.
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Critical Essay by Nell Sullivan
6,805 words, approx. 23 pages
 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 “repossess” Irish poetry for women.
Featured Essays
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 Essay Grade: 78%
The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me
552 words, approx. 2 pages
 The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave me is very beautiful and quite easy to understand. Bolland describes a lot, which helps the readers to get into the poem


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