The Collected Works of James Clarence Mangan
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The Collected Works of James Clarence Mangan: Poems 1818-1912. Four Volumes. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1996,1997, 1999. Publisher’s green buckram boards, title in gilt to spines. A fine bright set.
The complete collection of Mangan’s poems edited by Chuto (Jacques), Holzappel (R.P.), Mac Mahon (P.), O’Snodaigh, (P), Shannon-Mangan (Ellen), Van De Kamp (Peter).
James Clarence Mangan was born in Dublin just before Robert Emmet’s failed rebellion in 1803, and died in destitution in 1849, as the Great Famine drew to a close. Accounts of Mangan’s impoverishment, his reclusive behaviour, his addiction to alcohol, combined with the darkness of late poems like ‘The Nameless One,’ have encouraged readers to see Mangan as the epitome of pathos, and a mirror of the degraded colonial condition of nineteenth-century Ireland itself. After the Great Famine Mangan became strongly nationalist, and wrote poems on national themes which are still well-known today, including ‘My Dark Rosaleen’ and ‘A Vision of Connaught’ in the Thirteenth Century.
Two volumes containing Mangan’s prose work (1832-1882) were also issued as part of the Collected Works.
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