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JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN [BUST LOCATED IN SAINT STEPHEN’S GREEN]-127388
James Clarence Mangan [1 May 1803, Dublin – 20 June 1849] was an Irish poet.
Mangan's poetry fits into a variety of literary traditions. Most obviously, and frequently, his work is read alongside the political writings of Irish Nationalists like John Mitchel as they appear in newspapers like The Nation, and the United Irishman, or as a manifestation of the Irish Cultural Revival. Indeed, it is hard not to acknowledge Mangan's debts to translators and collectors of traditional Irish poetry such as Samuel Ferguson and James Hardiman; many of Mangan's poems, such as "Dark Roseleen" appear to be adaptations of their earlier translations rather a completely original production.
Mangan is also frequently read as a Romantic poet. In particular, he is compared to Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas De Quincey, largely thanks to his rumored opium addiction and tendency to place his writings within the frame of a vision or dream.
More recently, critics have begun to read Mangan's work as a precursor to Modernist and Postmodernist experimental writing. His playful literary hoaxes and fake translations (which he referred to as "reverse plagiarism") have been seen as a direct precursor to the works of the Irish author and newspaper columnist Flann O'Brien.
JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN [BUST LOCATED IN SAINT STEPHEN’S GREEN]-127388
James Clarence Mangan [1 May 1803, Dublin – 20 June 1849] was an Irish poet.
Mangan's poetry fits into a variety of literary traditions. Most obviously, and frequently, his work is read alongside the political writings of Irish Nationalists like John Mitchel as they appear in newspapers like The Nation, and the United Irishman, or as a manifestation of the Irish Cultural Revival. Indeed, it is hard not to acknowledge Mangan's debts to translators and collectors of traditional Irish poetry such as Samuel Ferguson and James Hardiman; many of Mangan's poems, such as "Dark Roseleen" appear to be adaptations of their earlier translations rather a completely original production.
Mangan is also frequently read as a Romantic poet. In particular, he is compared to Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas De Quincey, largely thanks to his rumored opium addiction and tendency to place his writings within the frame of a vision or dream.
More recently, critics have begun to read Mangan's work as a precursor to Modernist and Postmodernist experimental writing. His playful literary hoaxes and fake translations (which he referred to as "reverse plagiarism") have been seen as a direct precursor to the works of the Irish author and newspaper columnist Flann O'Brien.