Master poet, storyteller and translator Ciaran Carson has great fun with this eighteenth-century erotic masterpiece, which deals with the topic of repression, sexual and otherwise. The Midnight Court has been called one of the greatest comic works of literature, and certainly the greatest comic poem ever written in Ireland.
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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 equally important. In this country, poetry now is more frequently written than read, and the pleasures of the long poem are all but lost. By and large, our poets lack ambition and their meager audiences the patience. What Carson offers the willing in these 60 pages of poetry with a brief introduction is a rollicking evening of instruction in the pleasures of a long and entertaining poem. --Los Angeles Times
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the only poem ever banned in ireland,
By hugh g. merriman, md (las vegas, nv) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The midnight court (Paperback)
in the late 1700's the british sought to further subjigate the irish peasant by requiring them to divide their estates equally among their offspring. this led to smaller and smaller plots,unable to support a family. the irish responded by delaying marraige well into their fifth and sixth decades. the poem is political satire decrying the practice of "recalcitrant bachlorhood". the main character is taken and made to stand trial before the queen of the fairies, for this "crime". the last lyric poem published in the irish language. a beautiful read, full of earthy humor, and sufficiently inciting to cause the british to ban its publication.
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