Let the Fall begin’
Thomas Kinsella's European dimension
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12303181 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Fitzsimons (Gakushuin University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 267-281 |
| Publication date | 2008-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Irish Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0967-0882 • E-ISSN: 1469-9303 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09670880802214465 |
| OpenAlex | W2068080837 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
This paper will explore the European dimension to Thomas Kinsella's work, in particular the Germanic influences: Goethe, Thomas Mann, Rilke, Mahler, and Carl Jung; as well as the influence of François Villon and Teilhard de Chardin. I will show how these influences inform Kinsella's attempt to forge an alternative to the ‘classicist’ aesthetic of his poetry of the 1950s. The essay has two purposes: firstly, to outline the under-acknowledged European aspect of Kinsella's development, and secondly to show briefly how Kinsella's aesthetic trajectory and the concerns underpinning his poetry have correspondences with the work of his European near-contemporary Czeslaw Milosz
Art · Art history · Dimension (graph theory · Literature · Poetry · European Law and Migration · German History and Society · German Literature and Culture Studies · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |