On Irish-American Poetry: Daniel Tobin

HENRY DAVID Thoreau imagines himself as a “little Irish boy”, living in a shanty. Walt Whitman addresses “Old Ireland”, where an “ancient sorrowful mother” crouches over a grave. Robert Frost presents us with ‘The Cow’s in the Corn’, a “One-Act Irish Play in Rhyme”, in which O’Toole reads a paper on Home Rule and [...]

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