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Notes and references 213 Chapter 1 1. Glen A. Love, ‘Revaluing Nature: Toward an Ecological Criticism’, in Steven Rosendale (ed.), The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and the Environment (Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2002), p. xiv. 2. Guy Rotella, Reading & Writing Nature (Boston, MA.: Northeastern University Press, 1991), p. 100. 3. Wallace Stevens, The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination (New York: Vintage, 1951), p. 142. 4. Gyorgyi Voros, Notations of the Wild: Ecology in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens (Iowa City, IA:University of Iowa Press, 1997), p. 1. 5. Quoted in Rotella, Reading & Writing Nature, p. 101. 6. Deborah Fleming, ‘Landscape and the Self in W.B. Yeats and Robinson Jeffers’, in J. Scott Bryson (ed.), Ecopoetry: A Critical Introduction (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2002), p. 39. 7. Gilbert Allen, ‘Passionate Detachment in the Lyrics of Jeffers and Yeats’, in William B. Thesing (ed.), Robinson Jeffers and a Gallery of Writers: Essays in Honor of William H. Nolte (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1995), p. 39. 8. Richard Murphy, Collected Poems (Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery Books, 2000), pp. 74–80. 9. Richard Murphy, The Kick (London: Granta Books, 2002), p. 295. 10. Ibid. 11. Murphy, Collected Poems, p. 101. 12. William Wordsworth, ‘Tintern Abbey’, in M.H. Abrams et al. (eds), The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 2, 7th edn (New York: Norton, 2000), pp. 235–8. 13. Gary Snyder, The Gary Snyder Reader (Berkeley, CA.: Counterpoint, 1999), p. 107. 14. Ibid., p. 111. 15. Seamus Heaney, ‘Faith, Hope and Poetry’, in Preoccupations: Selected Prose 19681978 (New York: Noonday Press, 1980), pp. 217–20. 16. Seamus Heaney, ‘The God in the Tree: Early Irish Nature Poetry’, Preoccupations pp. 181–9. 17. Snyder, The Gary Snyder Reader, p. 116. 18. Kuno Meyer, Ancient Irish Poetry (London: Constable, 1911), pp. xii–xiii. 19. Murphy, The Kick, p. 293. 20. Wendell Berry, Standing by Words (Berkeley, CA.: North Point Press, 1983), p. 92. 21. Snyder, The Gary Snyder Reader, p. 476. 22. Quoted in Leonard M. Scigaj, Sustainable Poetry: Four American Ecopoets (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1999), p. 129. 23. Quoted in ibid., p. 40. 24. Wallace Stevens, ‘The Irish Cliffs of Moher’, Collected Poems (New York: Knopf, 1954), pp. 501–2. 25. Murphy, Collected Poems, p. 107. 26. Voros, Notations of the Wild, p. 79. 27. Murphy, The Kick, p. 283. 28. Richard Murphy, ‘Seals at High Island’, Collected Poems, p. 83. 29. Bryson, Ecopoetry, pp. 5–6. 30. Ibid., p. 6. 31. Ibid. 32. Heaney, Preoccupations, p. 218. 33. Snyder, The Gary Snyder Reader, p. 193. 34. Ibid., pp. 169–70. 35. Ibid., p. 125. 36. Scigaj, Sustainable Poetry, p. 12. Chapter 2 1. Among the most recent are Joep Leerssen, Remembrance and Imagination: Patterns in the Historical and Literary Representation of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century (Cork University Press, 1996); Margot Gayle Backus, The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999); Kathyrn Kirkpatrick (ed.), Border Crossings: Irish Women Writers and National Identities (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2000); Mary Jean Corbett, Allegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 1790–1870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000); Daire Keogh and Kevin Whelan (eds), Acts of Union: The Causes, Context and Consequences of the Act of Union (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001); Ina Ferris, The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002); Jarlath Killeen, Gothic Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005); Clíona Ó Gallchoir, Maria Edgeworth: Women, Enlightenment and Nation (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2005); Susan M. Kroeg, ‘“So Near to us as a Sister”: Incestuous Unions in Sydney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl and Maria Edgeworth’s The Absentee’, Anglo-Irish Identities (Lewisberg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, forthcoming). 2. Lady Morgan, The Wild Irish Girl: A National Tale, Vol. I–III (Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1999), vol. I, p. 136. Subsequent references to Wild Irish Girl will appear in the text parenthetically with volume number and page. Emphasis in original has in all cases been retained. 3. Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 280. 4. Edmund Burke, ‘A Letter to Richard Burke’, Letters, Speeches and Tracts on Irish Affairs (London: Macmillan, 1881), p. 350. 5. For examples of this opinion see Kathleen Kirkpatrick’s introduction to The Wild Irish Girl (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999); and Corbett, Allegories of Union...

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