Donna Robin Potts

Howard Nemerov and Objective Idealism: The Influence of Owen Barfield

Border Crossings: Irish Women Writers and National Identities

Exploring two centuries of Irish women's writing, contributors from Ireland and the United States show how these women have struggled against both colonialism and their own patriarchal nation. Writing in the shadows of Joyce and Yeats, Irish women have long contributed to the ongoing formation of Ir...

Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Pastoral Tradition

In Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Pastoral Tradition, Donna L. Potts closely examines the pastoral genre in the work of six Irish poets writing today. Through the exploration of the poets and their works, she reveals the wide range of purposes that pastoral has served in both Northern Ireland and...

Waking Dreams

The poems in Waking Dreams explore the nature of dreams and the surrealistic aspects of daily experiences; the interplay between our dreaming and waking lives. Whereas ""dream"" for the Anglo-Saxons was an ideal that one strove to attain, for the Vikings, it was a vision in sleep; the word still has...

Region, Nature, Frontiers: Proceedings from the 11th International Region and Nation Literature Association Conference

The book is a collection of sixteen essays on issues of regional and national identities and perceptions in literature ranging from South Africa to the United States. Discussions include the American frontier, the relationship between non-fiction and place, linguistic and postcolonial boundaries.

True wests.(Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions)(Book review): An article from: Irish Literary Supplement

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Howard Nemerov and Objective Idealism: The Influence of Owen Barfield

Argues that one of the most profound influences on the poetic works of Howard Nemerov was the thought of British philosopher Owen Barfield, in particular his theory of objective idealism. 107 pages including Bibliography and Index. University of Missouri Press, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition.