James Clarence Mangan: Selected Writings

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For a century and a half, the reputation of the Irish poet, James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849), has been based mainly upon a small number of poems, and a biographical tradition that cast him as a tortured genius. Yet his achievement as a whole was much more complex and varied, ranging across over 900 poems and a significant amount of creative and critical prose. In this, the most comprehensive single-volume selection of Mangan's poetry and prose available, Mangan can be appreciated not only for the poignancy and power of his well-known late poems and autobiographical writings, but also for those talents admired by his original readers: his astonishing metrical skills, his love of wordplay, his surrealist humour, and his
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For a century and a half, the reputation of the Irish poet, James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849), has been based mainly upon a small number of poems, and a biographical tradition that cast him as a tortured genius. Yet his achievement as a whole was much more complex and varied, ranging across over 900 poems and a significant amount of creative and critical prose. In this, the most comprehensive single-volume selection of Mangan's poetry and prose available, Mangan can be appreciated not only for the poignancy and power of his well-known late poems and autobiographical writings, but also for those talents admired by his original readers: his astonishing metrical skills, his love of wordplay, his surrealist humour, and his sympathetic understanding of Irish and European literatures. He emerges here as a witty and intelligent craftsman as well as an emotionally charged romantic, and his audacious experiments with translation and parody make him seem remarkably contemporary. In this edition, too, Mangan's fascinating prose commentaries are restored to their original positions surrounding his poems, and readers are for the first time given a generous selection of Mangan's critical writing and letters. This volume will prove valuable to scholars, students and general readers alike.

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Despite having written nearly 1000 poems in his brief life, the Irish poet and man of letters Mangan (1803-49) died destitute. His myth-driven, Irish nationalist works stayed in print owing to an admiring publisher, John Mitchel, and were later championed by W.B. Yeats and James Joyce. Now, 200 years after his birth, the man called "a complete literary Proteus" remains an enduring influence on Irish writing. This hefty volume is itself the offspring of a six-volume compendium of all Mangan's work (The Collected Works of James Clarence Mangan). Editor Ryder (English, National Univ. of Ireland, Galway) here restores Mangan's poetry to its chronological order and adds brief selections from his prose and few extant letters. This selection, with its essential notes, makes the full range of Mangan's pen available to students and scholars without access to the complete works. For academic libraries.-Shelley Cox, Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781904558095
  • Publisher: University College Dublin Press
  • Publication date: 8/18/2004
  • Pages: 528
  • Product dimensions: 6.54 (w) x 9.36 (h) x 1.95 (d)

Table of Contents

Lines, written at 17 19
Enigma [the enchanted Earl of Kildare] 19
Enigma [a vampire] 20
Rebus [Emmet] 22
Enigma - to the memory of the late lamented Mr. John Kenchinow, butcher, of Patrick street 23
The young parson's dream 25
To my native land 27
The dying enthusiast to his friend 29
Elegiac verses on the early death of a beloved friend 30
The one mystery 33
'Life is the desert and the solitude' 34
The philosopher and the child 36
Curiosity 37
The unrealities 38
A railway of rhyme 41
Mignon's song 42
Sonner [bird, that discoursest from yon poplar bough] 43
The Alder-King 43
A song from the Coptic 46
Another song, from the same Coptic 46
Ichabod! : the glory hath departed 47
The king of Thule 48
My adieu to the muse 50
Epigram - to a friend who had invited the author to supper 54
Epigram - to Yusef ben Ali ben Yacoob 55
A triplet, on the reign of the great sultan 55
To Miriam, on her hair 55
Ghazel, from the poems of Ahmedi 56
The time of the roses 58
Fragment of another [drinking song] 61
To Mihri 62
Genuine ethereality 63
Double trouble 63
[My heart is a monk] 63
Song for coffee-drinkers 64
Lament, by Mulheed 65
Relic, of Prince Bayazeed 66
Philosophy and philosophers 68
The hundred-leafed rose 70
What is love? 74
Volto sciolto e pensieri stretti 74
Haroun Al-Rashid and the dust 75
Description of morning 75
A new moon 75
Lamii's apology for his nonsense 76
The ghost and the poet 76
[When men behold old mould rolled cold] 79
The dying father 79
My home 81
The howling-song of Al-Mohara 82
The time of the Barmecides 85
To Sultan Murad II 87
[Where art thou, soul of per-version?] 88
The Erl-King's daughter, a Danish ballad 89
Twenty golden years ago 91
Alexander and the tree 93
Asses 97
[Let England's old womanhood tremble no more] 99
The woman of three cows 101
An elegy on the Tironian and Tirconnellian princes buried at Rome 104
Lamentation of Mac Liag for Kincora 110
Kathaleen Ny-Houlahan 113
The ride round the parapet 114
O, Maria, Regina misericordiae! 119
Gone in the wind 121
Our first number 122
Epigram ['well, Pat, my boy'] 124
Rayther inconsistant 124
Pleasant prospects for the land-eaters 124
The poet bewaileth his ill luck in having contracted the debt of tre giulii 126
He is of the opinion that his creditor would pursue him unto the Isle of Sky 127
He proposes a plan of mutual accommodation to his creditor 127
He compares his debt to a small pimple, which by degrees grows to the magnitude of a cabbage-tumour 128
His opinion is that he attracts his creditor towards him by a species of animal magnetism 130
He floors his creditor in an argument on the immortality of the soul 130
He professes to know nothing about any thing except the fact that he owes three giulii 131
He thinks his creditor ought to admire even a refusal, if given in proper Spartan fashion 131
He says that his creditor is a more terrible sight than a comet, because his movements cannot be calculated on before-hand 132
He tells his creditor that the more he's dunned, the more he won't pay one stiver! 133
He threatens finally to escape into some desert, turn jack-ass, and live on thistles 133
Grabbe 134
Schnapps 137
The coming event 138
Stanza [see how the worlds that roll afar] 140
Good counsel 141
The caramanian exile 141
The wail and the warning of the three khalenders 144
Love and madness 147
Heaven first of all within ourselves 148
The thugs' ditty 149
The soffees' ditty 150
'Der Freiheit eine Gasse' - A lane for freedom 153
['He was the tool of tyrants.' : be it so!] 156
[Be my goal, or not, a vain chimera] 156
The white lady 158
The last words of Al-Hassan 160
Fuimus! 162
The death of Hofer 163
Ein Wort Neander's : a saying of Neander 165
Memnon and mammon 165
And then no more 166
Eighteen hundred fifty 168
The ruby mug 171
Where's my money? 179
The bewildered vintner 180
Song : the mariner's bride 183
The wayfaring tree 184
Khidder 185
Counsel of a cosmopolitan 191
[The night is falling] 192
Rest only in the grave 192
Prince Aldfrid's itinerary through Ireland 194
To the ruins of Donegal Castle 196
O'Hussey's ode to the Maguire 201
Advice 204
The warning voice 205
The rye mill 208
To the pens of the nation 210
The domiciliary visit 210
Siberia 212
To the Ingleezee Khafir, calling himself Dajuan Bool Djenkinzun 214
The peal of another trumpet 216
The dream of John Mac Donnell 219
Dark Rosaleen 222
Cean-Salla 225
An invitation 226
A vision of Connaught in the thirteen century 227
The lovely land 230
Lament over the ruins of the Abbey of Teach Molaga 231
A lamentation for the death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerlad, Knight of Kerry 235
Counsel to the worldly-wise 236
Neither one thing nor t'other 239
Love-song 242
The hymn 'Stabat Mater Dolorosa' 244
The lass of Carrick 245
The death and burial of Red Hugh O'Donnell 247
The dawning of the day 256
Song of the Albanian 258
Owen Reilly : a keen 260
Moreen : a love-lament 262
Testament of Cathaeir Mor 266
Rights of property 273
A voice of encouragement 274
Hush-a-by baby 277
St Patrick's hymn before Tarah 280
A vision A.D. 1848 284
Holy are the works of Mary's blessed son 288
Irish national hymn 290
The Tribune's hymn for Pentecost 292
An ode of Hafiz 293
Elleen a-ruin 294
The Irish language 295
The vision of Egan O'Reilly 297
Duhallow 301
Epigram - the richest caliph 303
March forth, eighteen forty-nine! 304
The funerals 306
Gasparo Bandollo 308
Bear up! 312
Ghazel [all that hath existence is eternal] 314
A word in reply to Joseph Brenan 315
The famine 317
Still a nation 319
The expedition and death of King Dathy 320
The nameless one 323
The fair hills of Eire O! 325
O'Tuomy's drinking song 327
Andrew Magrath's reply to John O'Tuomy 328
The Geraldine's daughter 330
Conor O'Riordan's vision 332
The coolun 334
Caitilin Ni Uallachain 336
Donal na Greine 338
Black-haired fair Rose 342
Little black-haired Rose 343
Edmund of the hill 344
Consolation and counsel 356
When hearts were trumps! 358
An extraordinary adventure in the shades 363
A treatise on a pair of tongs 373
My bugle, and how I blow it 385
Critical writings from 'Anthologia Germanica' series 392
Critical writings from 'Litera Orientales' series 398
Critical writings from introduction to Poets and poetry of Munster 403
Critical writings from 'Sketches and reminiscences of Irish writers' series 404
Letters to Tynan (mid-1832) 431
Letters to Charles Gavan Duffy (1840-1841) 439
Letters to Charles Gavan Duffy (21 July 1847) 441
Letters to Charles Gavan Duffy (1847-1848) 443
Letters to the editor of the United Irishman (25 March 1848) 443
Letters to James Hardiman (7 December 1848) 444
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