The Irish Poet and the Natural World: An Anthology of Verse in English from the Tudors to the Romantics

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THE IRISH POET AND THE NATURAL WORLD THE IRISH POET AND THE NATURAL WORLD An Anthology of Verse in English from the Tudors to the Romantics Edited by Andrew Carpenter and Lucy Collins First published in 2014 by Cork University Press Youngline Industrial Estate Pouladuff Road, Togher Cork, Ireland© Introduction and notes, Andrew Carpenter and Lucy Collins, 2014 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording or otherwise, without either the prior written permissionof the publisher or a licence permitting restricted copying in Ireland issued by the Irish Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 25 Denzille Lane, Dublin 2. The right of the editors to be identified as originators of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with Copyright and Related Rights Acts 2000 to 2007. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN-978–1-78205-064-3 Typeset by Burns Design Printed in Malta by Gutenberg Press Ltd In memory of Margaret Collins (1925–2012) and Anne Isdell-Carpenter (1915–2010) ...