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‘dichtung und wahrheit’  There might be an echo in Harsent’s line of Tacitus’s mordant observation of the Romanlegions, thatu ...

 david wheatley Red Cross in Normandy, is ‘a vision and sense of a time-honoured conception of humanityin ruins, and perhaps ...

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 paul volsik My analysis of the epic will begin with what may seem a distant issue, but is,I would (with others) argue, an or ...

‘that dark permanence of ancient forms’  The triumph of this tradition was so complete that it not only came to dominate crit ...

 paul volsik discussions of Northern Irish poetry) that nationality is not the space of identity andthe distinct, but an extr ...

‘that dark permanence of ancient forms’  Yeats’s life-long enthusiasm for this type of ‘ring-giver’/heroic figure, for whom t ...

 paul volsik poem is that it does not in fact question the epic as the epic of war; in some ways, itdemocratizes Yeats’s cons ...

‘that dark permanence of ancient forms’  Mahon’s poems express a horror of the values that underpin the dreams of the combati ...

 paul volsik quieter heroism of survival, a survival that is ‘human’ but perhaps more profoundly thesurvival of the ‘humane’ ...

‘that dark permanence of ancient forms’  its violence taking place in a mythical elsewhere (mythic mornings, for example), bu ...

 paul volsik rewriting of the Cuchulain story to the ‘people of Kiltartan’.^15 Itwas also important that, as Declan Kiberd re ...

‘that dark permanence of ancient forms’  As once, on an impossibly epic morning, Itupheld their savage stride: To bagpiped ba ...

 paul volsik Christian, consonantal against vocalic, masculine against feminine, a certain con- structionof the Protestant ag ...

‘that dark permanence of ancient forms’  It is the movement backwards to a grounding ‘scop’s|twang’that is central. And one c ...

 paul volsik but they are readings which enable Heaney to negotiate the contemporary—the Troublesin Northern Ireland. ForBeow ...

‘that dark permanence of ancient forms’  very end of his translation, Heaney writes: ‘she unburdened herself|ofher worst fear ...