The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion discusses how and why the sonnet appeals to Irish poets and has grown in popularity over the last century. Using a thematic approach, Tara Guissin-Stubbs argues for the significance of the Irish sonnet as a discrete entity within modern and contemporary poetry, and shows how the Irish sonnet has become a debating chamber for discussions concerning the relationship between Irish and British culture, poetry and gender, and revision and rebellion. The text reshapes the poetic and critical field, exploring canonical and non-canonical poems by male and female poets so as to challenge outmoded views of the thematic and formal limitations of the sonnet.

Tara Guissin-Stubbs is Associate Professor of English Literature at Oxfords Department for Continuing Education, and the Dean of Kellogg College, Oxford University, UK. Her publications includeAmerican Literature and Irish Culture, 19101955: the politics of enchantment(2013) and, with Doug Haynes,Navigating the Transnational in Modern American Literature and Culture(2017).