GEORGE O'NEILL - Essays on Poetry

Dublin/London, The Talbot Press/T. Fisher Unwin, 1919. First Edition, Binding: Cloth, Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Hadrback Hardback. First Edition. Foxing to end inside cover. Very slight wear to top and bottom edge of spine of cloth. Red cloth with black lettering. Irish and English poets and poetry are the subjects treated in this volume - 'Poety & the Reverse', 'Aubrey de Vere', 'William Allingham', Thomas Boyd', and 'Gerald Hopkins'. The essays have been selected by the author 'on account of a certain unity of subject from a large number published or delivered as lectures at various times and places'. Father O'Neill's academic qualifications will be a guarantee to his readers of the quality of these essays in criticism. Contents: Poetry and the Reverse - Various Views on Poetry. A Definition. The Utterance of Poetry. The Reverse. The Poetaster, The Versifier, The Mediocre Poet, The Minor Poet. Aubrey de Vere. William Allingham, Poet and Diariest. Thomas Boyd. Gerard Hopkins. 138 pp.