Abstract

Abstract:

This essay addresses the work of the Anglo-Irish poet, Sheila Wingfield (1906-1992)–one of a generation of neglected women poets writing in mid-century Ireland–whose work was influenced by the example of the high modernism of, among others, Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot. It examines the formation of Wingfield's poetic in her early readings in Romantic and post-Romantic English poetry; the parallels between her poetry and the Imagism of Ezra Pound and H.D., including their receptions of the classical Greek epigram; and her miniaturist re-imaginings of Homeric materials. Attention is also paid to the impact of J. W. Dunne's contemporaneous theory of spatio-temporal 'serialism' on her major poem, Beat Drum, Beat Heart.

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