Items related to Collected Poems
From Booklist
Hartnett, whose recent death was mourned by all lovers of the Irish language, is best known for the poem "Farewell to English," in which he bid that "perfect language to sell pigs in" adieu and vowed to write thereafter only in the "language of my people." Ironically, the poems in this fine retrospective appear only in that pig-selling language, reflecting the fact that Hartnett crept back to it in his later work. Even in English, his work is dense with the sensuality and passion of Irish, and the natural and human worlds so close to one another that what might otherwise be metaphor seems sheer factual statement. Hartnett's gift lies in the way he plays with themes and images far removed from an antiquated Irishness, so that in his work Greek gods and cigarettes, garlic and Sibelius, New York taxis and origami find their places beside country paths and dancing at crossroads. Hartnett was a poet of the world and a twentieth-century Irishman; he never forgot either identity. Patricia Monaghan
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Review
The Arrest Of Antonio El Camborio On The Road To Seville
Ballad Of The Accursed
Ballad Of The Black Sorrow
Ballad Of The Moon
Ballad Of The Spanish Civil Guard
Dead From Love
The Death Of Antonio El Camborio
The Fight
Gabriel
The Gipsy Nun
Preciosa And The Wind
San Miguel
San Rafael
The Sleepwalking Ballad
The Unfaithful Wife
Advice
The Connerys
The Gaeltacht Face
The Hag Of Beare (1969)
Marksman: 1411
Marksman: 1415
Marksman: 1527
The Naked Surgeon
Patience Of A Tree
The Ruin That Befell Ireland
Ssu K'ung T'u Walks In The Forest
Survivors
Tao (1963)
Waspoet
Lament For Tadhg Cronin's Children
Marban, A Hermit, Speaks
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherRaven Arts Pr
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 1851860096
- ISBN 13 9781851860098
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages104
Other Popular Editions of the Same Title
Search results for Collected Poems
Seller Image
Collected poems Vol.2. / Michael Hartnett
Published by
Dublin Manchester : Raven Arts Press ; Carcanet Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 1851860096
ISBN 13: 9781851860098
Used
Softcover
First Edition
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
1st edition. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 104 p.; 22 cm. Subjects: English poetry Irish authors. Ireland; Poetry. Poetry in Irish 1850 Texts. Genre: Poetry. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 322800
Quantity: 9 available
Seller Image
Collected poems Vol.2. / Michael Hartnett
Published by
Dublin Manchester : Raven Arts Press ; Carcanet Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 1851860096
ISBN 13: 9781851860098
Used
Softcover
First Edition
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
1st edition. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 104 p.; 22 cm. Subjects: English poetry Irish authors. Ireland; Poetry. Poetry in Irish 1850 Texts. Genre: Poetry. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 322800
Quantity: 9 available