The 18th Century
The 18th Century perhaps marks the point at which the two language traditions reach equal weight of importance. In Swift, the English tradition has its first writer of genius. Poetry in Irish now reflects the passing of the old Gaelic order and the patronage on which the poets depended for their livelihoods. This, then, is a period of transition writ large.
Read more about this topic: Irish Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word century:
“Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)