Boland, Eavan
Boland, Eavan ( 1944 – ),Irish poet born in Dublin. She spent some of her childhood from the age of 15 in London, an experience evoked in several of her poems. She was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where she read Latin and English. She began to write when young, and her first collection, New Territory ( 1967 ), was followed by The War Horse ( 1975 ), In Her Own Image ( 1980 ), Night Feed ( 1982 ), The Journey ( 1987 ), Outside History ( 1990 ), In a Time of Violence ( 1994 ), and The Lost Land ( 1998 ). Her Collected Poems was published in 1995 . Object Lessons ( 1995 ) is a prose work reflecting on women, poetry, and the Irish literary temperament, in which she pays tribute to the powerful early inspiration of Plath . Her work has a wide thematic range, drawing on classical and Irish myth, on domestic life and maternal experience, informed by...
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