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| #723622 in Books | Wake Forest University Press | 2006-03-01 | 2006-03-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.20 x6.00l,.26 | File type: PDF | 63 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Anyone interested in Ireland and Irish literature cannot avoid becoming ...|By Alison Armstrong|Anyone interested in Ireland and Irish literature cannot avoid becoming familiar with this classic. After reading Arland Usher's translation now read Ciaran Carson's who makes it newly accessible in all its west of Ireland atmosphere, its satire, its message that only Chaucer's Wyfe||Carson s translation of The Midnight Court is that rarest of things: a small and utterly enjoyable masterpiece. It brings to a wider audience than ever before a great and neglected piece of 18th century literature and, to an American readership, something equa
Originally written in the Irish language by the 18th-century poet Brian Merriman (circa 17451805), The Midnight Court is here translated by one of Ireland’s distinguished contemporary poets, Ciaran Carson. This extended satiric poem assesses the growing economic, political, and familial constraints of late 18th-century Catholic Ireland under British colonial rule, while subversively playing on the tradition of the aisling (or vision) poem in which a beautiful wom...
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