Essays on James Clarence Mangan : the man in the cloak

He has published some two dozen books of poetry, prose and translation, most recently From Elsewhere, translations from the work of the French poet Jean Follain, paired with poems inspired by the translations (Gallery Press 2014). His work has won many prizes including the T. S. Eliot Award and the Forward Prize. He is a member of Aosdána, the affiliation of Irish artists, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Jacques Chuto, retired Professor of English at the University of Paris-Est, has been researching Mangan for over forty years. After writing his PhD thesis on 'James Clarence Mangan, poète-traducteur' for the University of Paris 3-Sorbonne nouvelle, he has co-edited the six volumes of the Collected Works of James Clarence Mangan (1996-2002), one volume of Selected Poems (2003) and one of Selected Prose (2004), and is the author of James Clarence Mangan, a Bibliography of his Works (1999). His latest publication is a French translation, with introduction and notes, of a selection of poems by Derek Mahon, La Mer hivernale (2013). "This volume explores the extraordinary literary achievement of James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849), increasingly recognized as one of the most important Irish writers of the nineteenth century, and a crucial influence on WB Yeats and James Joyce. It is the first collection of essays to focus on Mangan, and features articles by leading scholars in the field, including David Lloyd, as well as contributions by acclaimed contemporary writers, Paul Muldoon and Ciaran Carson. The collection expands existing fields of debate - translation, the supernatural, intertexuality, nationalism, romanticism - and introduces new ones: Mangan's afterlife in the English literary canon, cosmopolitanism and Weltliteratur, antiquity and futurity, nineteenth-century spiritualism and magical thinking. 'The Man in the Cloak', one of Mangan's favourite pseudonyms, is still a resonant soubriquet for a writer who has largely eluded critical attention, and this volume restores him to his proper place in European and British, as well as Irish literary history"-- Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Introduction....Pages 1-13 Crossing Over....Pages 14-32 ‘Fully able / to write in any language — I’m a Babel’....Pages 33-52 ‘Antiquity and Futurity’ in the Writings of James Clarence Mangan....Pages 53-83 Cosmopolitan Form: Mangan’s Anthologies and the Critique of Weltliteratur....Pages 84-101 Night Singer: Mangan Among the Birds....Pages 102-123 ‘The last of the bardic poets’....Pages 124-139 ‘[M]y mind is destroying me’: Consciousness, ‘Psychological Narrative’, and Supernaturalist Modes in Mangan’s Fiction....Pages 140-162 The Spiritual ‘Vastation’ of James Clarence Mangan....Pages 163-183 Unauthorized Mangan....Pages 184-200 Mangan in England....Pages 201-220 Afterword....Pages 221-229 Back Matter....Pages 230-242 This is the first collection of essays to focus on the extraordinary literary achievement of James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849), increasingly recognized as one of the most important Irish writers of the nineteenth century. It features contributions by acclaimed contemporary writers including Paul Muldoon and Ciaran Carson.