Book Title - Preserving The Word, Descriptive Catalogue of Maurice Harmon's Library of Anglo-Irish Literature and Criticism
Book Author - Compiled by Barbara R. Brown, edited by Lisle G. Brown
Book Publisher/Year - The John Deaver Drinko Academy for American Political Institutions and Civic Culture, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia / April 1996 / 209 pages
Book Condition - Very Good plus or better. Unbound, uncut pages - so complete textblock ready for binding. May have one or more imperfections and/or marks or dings on first front and last back exposed pages but if anything it would be extremely minor. May have minor smudge on bottom edge from shelving. Complete text is clean, unmarked and undamaged.
Book Content - Maurice Harmon's library of Anglo-Irish Literature and Criticism Catalogue from April 1996. Copies are rare and I am unsure if this was ever officially distributed.
Below is a selected bibliography of Maurice Harmon. I list it because I believe it paints a solid picture of what his interests have been and so what the content of his library was - the following list is strictly to help inform how comprehensive and interesting the catalogue is -
Sean O’Faolain; A Critical Introduction, 1967; rev. 1985.
Modern Irish Literature 1800-1967, 1967
Fenians and Fenianism, 1968, ed.
Ed., The Malone Shakespeare 1970-1971
The Celtic Master, 1969, ed.
Ed., William Carleton [Traits], 4 vols., 1973,
The Poetry of Thomas Kinsella, 1974
Ed., with P. Rafroidi, The Irish Novel in Our Time, 1976
Richard Murphy: Poet of Two Traditions, 1977, ed.
Select Bibliography for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature and its Backgrounds, 1977
A Literary Map of Ireland, 1977
Ed. & intro., Irish Poetry after Yeats., 1978, 1998
Ed., The Playboy of the Western World, 1978
Ed., Image and Illusion. Anglo-Irish Literature and its Contexts, 1979
with Roger McHugh, History of Anglo-Irish Literature from its Origins to the Present Day, 1982
Ed., with Morris Beja, et al., James Joyce. The Centennial Symposium,1986
Austin Clarke, A Critical Introduction 1989
Seán O’Faolain, A Life, 1994
Ed. & intro., No Author Better Served. The Correspondence between Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider, 1998
The Dolmen Press, A Celebration, 2001
Trans, The Colloquy of the Old Men, 2001
Essay Collections
‘The Later Poetry of Austin Clarke’, in The Celtic Cross, ed. R. Browne, 1964, 39-55
‘New Voices in the Fifties’, in Irish Poets in English, ed. S. Lucy, 1973, 183-207
‘Generations Apart: 1920-1975’, in The Irish Novel in Our Time, ed. P. Rafroidi and Harmon, 1976, 49-65
‘Cobwebs Before the Wind’, in Views of the Irish Peasantry 1800-1916, ed. D. Casey and R. Rhodes, 1977, 129-159
‘Beginning with Words’, in Richard Murphy. Poet of Two Traditions, ed.. Harmon, 1978, 118-128
‘First Impressions: 1969-1978’, in The Irish Short Story, ed. P. Rafroidi and T. Brown, 1979, 63-77
‘General Works’, in Recent Research on Anglo-Irish Writers, ed. R. Finneran, 1983, 1-20
‘Richard Murphy’, in Dictionary of Literary Biography, 1985, 405-410
‘The Era of Inhibitions: Irish Literature 1920-1960, in The Irish Writer and Society, ed. M. Sekine, 1985, 31-41
"‘We pine for ceremony’: Ritual and Reality in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney (1965-1975)", in Studies in Seamus Heaney, ed. J. Genet, 1987, 47-64; rep. in Seamus Heaney: A Collection
of Critical Essays, ed. E. Andrews, 1992.
‘Definitions of Irishness in Modern Irish Literature’, in Irishness in a Changing Society, ed. Princess Grace Irish Library, 1988, 45-63
‘Pangur Ban and the Scholar Critic’, in Literature and the Art of Creation, ed. R. Welch and S.B. Bushrui, 1988, 33-42
‘Francis Stuart’ in Contemporary Irish Novelists, ed. Rudiger Imhof, 1990, 9-21
‘The Enigma of Samuel Ferguson’, in Irish Writers and Politics, ed. Okifumi Komesu and Masaru Sekine, 1990, 62-79.
"‘Move, if you move, like water": The Poetry of Thomas Kinsella 1972-1990’, in Contemporary Irish Poetry: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. E. Andrews, 1992, 194-213.
‘Mary Lavin: Moralist of the Heart’ in Ireland and France. A Bountiful Friendship. Essays in honour of Patrick Rafroidi, ed. by B. Hayley and C. Murray, 1992, 107-123.
‘Ancient Lights in Austin Clarke and Thomas Kinsella’ in A Small Nation’s Contribution to the World: Essays on Anglo-Irish Literature and Language, ed. Donald Morse,
Csilla Bertha and Istvan Palffy, 1994, 70-87
‘Seamus Heaney et la douce flamme’ in Le processus de la creation chez les Ecrivains Irlandais contemporains, ed Jacqueline Genet, 1994, 37-53; trans. As Seamus Heaney et la creation poetique, 1995 and Irish Writers and their Creative Processes, ed. Jacqueline Genet and Wynne Hellegouarc’h, 1996, 17-29
‘Yeats, Austin Clarke and Sean O’Faolain’ in Yeats’s Political Identities, Selected Essays ,ed. Jonathan Allison, 1996, pp. 221-233
‘Patrick Kavanagh’s Old Peasant’ in Rural Ireland, Real Ireland? ed. Jacqueline Genet, op.c it., 1996, 213-222
‘Foreword’ to Patrick Kavanagh: A Reference Guide. Compiled and edited by Jonathan Allison 1996
‘Spaten und Wasserwaage: Seamus Heaney’s suche nach Herkunft und Gleichgewicht’ in Seamus Heaney Tod eines Naturforschers, Nobel Preis fur Literatur, 1996, 47-67
‘Sean O’Faolain: nouvelles de la derniere periode’, in La Nouvelle Irlandaise de Language Anglaise, 1996, ed. Jacqueline Genet, 77-85
‘Sean O’Faolain. Man of Ideas,’Conference papers edited by Donatella Abbate Badin, (2001)
Articles
‘Richard Rowan, His Own Scapegoat’, James Joyce Quarterly, 111, 1(Fall 1965), 34-40
‘Sean O’Faolain; "I Have Nobody to Vote For"‘, Studies, LV1, 221(Spring 1967), 51-60
‘By Memory Inspired: Themes and Forces in Recent Irish Writing’, Éire-Ireland, 11, 11(Summer 1973), 3-19
‘The Poetry of Padraic Fallon’, Studies, LX1V, 255(Autumn 1975), 169-281
‘Aspects of the Peasantry in Anglo-Irish Literature’, Studia Hibernica, XV (1975), 45-62
‘Literature and Nationalism in Ireland’, Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny’, 4(1978), 473-486
‘Yeats et la jeune poesie irlandaise’, Cahier de L’Herne, 1981, 425-437
‘The Poetry of Thomas Kinsella 1973-1983’, Studies, LXX11, 185 (Spring 1983), 57-66
‘"Where Dwell Our Different Selves": The Poetry of Ewart Milne’, Prospice, 14(1983), 63-71
‘The Rejection of Yeats: the Case of Clarke and O’Faolain,’ Studies (Autumn 1983), 1-14
‘Austin Clarke. Sword of the West (1921, 1936, 1974), Etudes Irlandaises, 1985, 93-104
‘The Making of Sean O’Faolain’, Studies (Winter 1990), 387-395
‘The Chair at UCC’, Cork Review. Sean O’Faolain 1900-1990 (1991). 35-36
‘Anglo-Irish Literature. A Survey of General Works (1)’,. Etudes Irlandaises, No. XV1 -2 (Decembre 1991), 143-155 (2)’. No. XV11-1 (Juin 1992), 157-167.
‘Seamus Heaney’s Divisions and Allegiances’, "Seamus Heaney Special Issue", Colby Quarterly, (Spring 1994), 7-16.
‘Contemporary Irish Poetry’, Anglistik & englischunterricht. Ireland: Literature, Culture, Politics. Band 52 (1994), 17-28.
‘The Teeming Air:The Poetry of Louis MacNeice, John Hewitt, and W.R. Rodgers’, in Mythes Croyances et Religions dans le Monde Anglo-Saxon, Cahier Numero 12 (1994), 107-114.
‘Rituale um Tod und Wiedergeburt. Die Dichtung des Iren Seamus Heaney’, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 28 October 1995, No 251/66
‘English Words, Irish Voices’, Etudes Irlandaises, No. 21, I (Printemps 1996), pp. I-II
‘Tradition et innovation dans la litterature irlandaise’, Bretagne des livres, numero 27 (mai 1996)
‘The Achievement of Francis Stuart’, in "Francis Stuart Special Issue", Writing Ulster, , No 4 (1996), 19-37
Keeping his Spirit Up: The later Poetry and Prose of Seamus Heaney, in Journal of English, Spring 1997
Conversations with Mary Lavin, Irish University Review, 27,2, Autumn/Winter 1997
The Achievement of Austin Clarke, 23,2, Automne, Etudes Irlandaises, 1998, 27-37
Sean O’Faolain in La Nouvelle Irlandaise de Langue Anglaise, ed Jacqueline Genet, 1996, pp.77-85
‘Eavan Boland: The Complex State of the Woman Poet’, Women’s Studies Forum, 1998, 3, 105-124
’Approaches to the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature’, in The Harp [Tokyo], Spring 1998
’Seamus Heaney. Digger of the Middle Ground’. in papers of Tokyo Iasil-Japan Conference, XV111, The Harp,1998,1-13
’A Note on Paula Meehan’, ABEI Journal, Brazil, 1, June, 1999, pp.25-28
‘Four Irish Elegies,’ 17(1999), Mythes, Croyances et Religions, 29-38
‘Sean 0’Faolain. A Man before His Time’, Cork Literary Review, VII, 2000, 84-89
Introduction à sa nouvelle traduction de Acallam na Senorach [The Colloquy of the Old Men], Mythes, Croyances et Religions, 18 (2000), 13-19
‘From Basin Lane to Old Vienna: Place, Transcendence and Counterpoint in Thomas Kinsella’, "Special Thomas Kinsella Issue", Irish University Review, 31,1 (Spring/Summer 2001), 78-94
‘A Slowly Twisted Scar: Texture, Theme and Paradox in the Poetry of Thomas Kinsella’, Literary Review Ireland, IX, 2002
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