Tuesday 3 February 2015

James Clarence Mangan His Selected Poems [by James Clarence Mangan] [1897]

James Clarence Mangan, born James Mangan [1 May 1803, Dublin – 20 June 1849], was an Irish poet. WB Yeats considered Mangan one of the best Irish poets, along with Thomas Davis and Samuel Ferguson, claiming, "To the soul of Clarence Mangan was tied the burning ribbon of Genius." His most famous poems include Dark Rosaleen, Siberia, Nameless One, A Vision of Connaught in the Thirteenth Century, The Funerals, To the Ruins of Donegal Castle, Pleasant Prospects for the Land-eaters and Woman of Three Cows.

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