“Priestess or sacrifice?” Domestic Tasks and Poetic Craft in Eavan Boland’s poetry

This article looks at the relationship between housework and poetry in Eavan Boland’s poetry. Like many other women poets of her generation, Boland had an ambivalent relationship to the domestic, as she was well aware of the dangerous tendency to confine women’s poetry to the domestic realm. My inte...

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Main Author: Virginie Trachsler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Estudos Irlandeses 2022-05-01
Series:ABEI Journal
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Online Access:https://www.revistas.usp.br/abei/article/view/197760