Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A lost pastoral rhythm : the poetry of John Montague
  • "The god in the tree" : Seamus Heaney and the pastoral tradition
  • "Love poems, elegies: I am losing my place" : Michael Longley's environmental elegies
  • Learning the lingua franca of a lost land : Eavan Boland's suburban pastoral
  • "In my handkerchief of a garden" : Medbh McGuckian's miniature pastoral retreats
  • "When Ireland was still under a spell" : miraculous transformations in the poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
  • Conclusion: The future of pastoral.