1000 Years Of Irish Poetry Author:Kathleen Hoagland 1000 YEARS OF IRISH POETRY presents a remarkable panorama of Irish poetry as a literature, showing the many facets of the Irish poetic genius. It contains lyrics, elegies, songs, street ballads, satires, patriotic hymns, dramatic epics, nature and contemplative poetry, odes and sonnets, and older forms from the Gaelic which were not common to En... more »glish verse, and which influenced the bardic poets of ancient and medieval Europe.« less