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The Figure in the Cave: And Other Essays
John Montague
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Paperback. First paperback edition. Signed by author. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
The Figure in the Cave selects the prose of one of Ireland’s foremost contemporary poets – part autobiography, part criticism, part self-commentary – a gathering, from the mid-century to the present day, that marks a lifetime’s critical engagement with literature in both Europe and America. In the title essay Montague looks over his career as a writer; in others he describes a coming-of-age in Ulster, explores his own poetics, and appraises Goldsmith, Carleton, George Moore, Joyce and Beckett, MacNeice, Clarke, Kavanagh, Hewitt and MacDiarmid. Pieces on American literature include a vignette of Saul Bellow, a review of Lowell and an ... Read more
The Figure in the Cave selects the prose of one of Ireland’s foremost contemporary poets – part autobiography, part criticism, part self-commentary – a gathering, from the mid-century to the present day, that marks a lifetime’s critical engagement with literature in both Europe and America. In the title essay Montague looks over his career as a writer; in others he describes a coming-of-age in Ulster, explores his own poetics, and appraises Goldsmith, Carleton, George Moore, Joyce and Beckett, MacNeice, Clarke, Kavanagh, Hewitt and MacDiarmid. Pieces on American literature include a vignette of Saul Bellow, a review of Lowell and an ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9780946640270
SKU
KOC0003401
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About John Montague
JOHN MONTAGUE was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1929 and raised in Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland. He studied in Dublin, Yale, Iowa and Berkeley, and in the late 1960s taught in Berkeley and in Paris, from 1974 to 1988 at University College Cork, and from 1989 at SUNY Albany in the USA. He has published two works of fiction, ... Read more
Reviews for The Figure in the Cave: And Other Essays
That Montague is a significant poet does not need proving. These essays show that he is almost equally formidable as an autobiographer and critic.’ – Robert Greacen, Irish Independent