Mount Eagle (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John Montague
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Nature, Poetry or poets, Nationalism, Consciousness, Ireland or Irish people, Erotica
With the publication of Montague’s first collection of verse since The Dead Kingdom (1984), his readers catch the poet in a time of transition. Since he left Ireland, his native ground since the age of four, and returned—in 1988—to the United States, the land of his birth (in Brooklyn), both his life and his art reveal the discontinuity of cultural change. A prolific writer, Montague had centered the bulk of his previous poetry upon two major themes: introspection (often erotic) and Irish nationalism. Indeed, as an Irish poet, he had set claim to William Butler Yeats’s...
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