A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers

First edition, first impression.  xiv, 302pp.  Quarter-bound in white linen under white paper-covered boards with gilt initials on front panel and gilt titles on spine. Deckled edges.  8vo.  BUHR written faintly and small on the upper text block edge.  Previous owner's name neatly inked on the front free endpaper, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.  In its original illustrated, glossy, dust wrapper, which has a tiny nick at the spine head and is very slightly bumped at edges.  Through criticcal examination of the works of writers such as Joyce, Yeats, Synge, Beckett, O'Brien and George Moor, Kenner's theme emerges - that of the seizure of the English language by writers whose relationship to it was oddly uncomfortable, even alien - and is set firmly against their contextual contemporary settings.