Ireland's Love Poems

A chorus of Irish voices exalt and bemoan romance in Ireland's Love Poems. Major players are here (Jonathan Swift and William Congreve, W.B. Yeats and Samuel Beckett, Paul Muldoon and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill) along with scores of others from the pagan period to the present day. The tremendous diversity of forms, styles and perspectives gives readers a whirlwind tour of Irish literary history, as well as a long record of the endless search for ""a nymph that was chaste, or a swain that was true."" ( Feb.)