What’s Behind The Treasuries?

David  Pierce

doi:10.24162/EI2024-12547

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David Pierce

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https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2024-12547

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Antologías, Ideología, Nacionalidad, Género, Identidad, Historia, Legado

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Este ensayo surgió a raíz de una reseña a cargo del poeta escocés Robert Crawford del reciente libro de Clare Bucknell, The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture (2023). Proporciona una lectura del libro de Bucknell a la luz de otras antologías. No se trata de una reseña, sino que aporta una serie de reflexiones sobre la construcción y la naturaleza de las antologías fruto de mi lectura del libro de Bucknell. Crawford insiste en las omisiones del relato de Bucknell desde una perspectiva escocesa. Pero pretendo adoptar una perspectiva más amplia, una que incluya la identidad nacional. Inicialmente, me concentro en el índice y en la entrada del padre de Palgrave y de su nombre judío. Esto lleva a una discusión sobre la supuesta autoridad de The Golden Treasury y quizás sobre lo que esconde. El ensayo discrepa de una visión parcial de la poesía inglesa, donde Wordsworth aporta la mayor cantidad de poemas y donde los poetas del siglo XVIII apenas aparecen. La segunda mitad del ensayo analiza el capítulo de Bucknell sobre la popularidad de la terapia poética y su omisión de cualquier discusión sobre la poesía femenina reciente. La antología que ella descarta es The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892-1935 de Yeats, una conclusión que invita a una extensa respuesta. A continuación, la atención se centra en otro escritor irlandés, William Allingham, y su antología en gran parte olvidada, Nightingale Valley, que se publicó el año anterior a The Golden Treasury y que Palgrave intentó mejorar. Con sus provocadoras elecciones – que incluyen posiblemente la primera impresión de los poemas de Blake en una antología – Allingham reaccionó contra quienes leen poesía y literatura simplemente en términos de su reflejo de la historia y, de esta manera, ofreció, hace más de siglo y medio, una valiosa crítica de The Treasuries y The Golden Treasury.

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David Pierce

David Pierce was born in Sussex in 1947 and, eleven months later, he took his first steps in his grandmother’s cottage in Liscannor, County Clare. He spent his adolescence in Catholic seminaries in Sussex and Surrey before being told he was not suited for the priesthood. He graduated from Lancaster University in 1970. In the following decade he taught for a year with the British Council in Madrid and subsequently spent four years teaching in comprehensive schools in Stevenage and Blackburn. His research into Irish writing gained momentum in the 1980s under the tutelage of Timothy Webb at the University of York and Graham Martin at the Open University. He is the author (or co-author) of seventeen books, three with Yale University Press including James Joyce’s Ireland (1992) and Yeats’s Worlds (1995), and, more recently, three with Edward Everett Root: The Joyce Country: Literary Scholarship and Irish Culture (revised edition) (Brighton, Sussex, 2021), James Joyce’s Portrait: A New Reading (2019), and Yeats Revisited; The Continuing Legacy (2022). Six of his books were on Joyce, including Reading Joyce (Routledge, 2008), and four on Yeats including a 4-volume edition of Yeats criticism with Helm Information in 2000. His Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader was published by Cork University Press in 2000. A memoir, The Long Apprenticeship, was published by Matador in 2012. From 1978 to 2007, when he retired, he taught English at York St John College/University. During that time, he spent the academic year 1981-2 teaching English in California at Cabrillo College, Santa Cruz.

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