The Mischievous Boy and Other Poems

In this far-reaching collection Maurice Harmon extends the examination of modern Irish life that he began twenty years ago. the mischievous boy exposes the conditions of life in Ireland through various manifestations - in James Joyce, Thomas Kinsella, and William Carleton. The transformed nature of Irish society is projected in the satirical 'A Vision of Ireland in the Twenty-first Century'In a style of luminous simplicity Maurice Harmon gives us elegies, love poems and humorous asides, del...