Unfinished Sequence and Other Poems - Softcover

Lucy, Sean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0905473388 ISBN 13: 9780905473383

Publisher: Merlin Publishing, 1979

Synopsis

This is Sean Lucy's first collection since the publication of a selection of his work in Five Irish Poets (1970). The poems in this volume show a continuing progress in the attempt to find a poetic voice which will be direct, passionate and rhythmical without oversimplifying or sentimentalizing the primary experiences to which it responds. 'After Modernism', says the author, 'poetry is again in search of a really human voice and vision. Some of these poems are a last stripping down of my own isolation and aestheticism, others attempt a fuller, freer, warmer voice.' The O Riada Sequence is a lament but also a celebration.' The O Riada work to which he refers gives its title, 'Unfinished Sequence' to this collection. A tribute to his friend, the great composer and musician 'who had touched, even changed the consciousness of a whole nation', the eight poems that make up 'Unfinished Sequence' are the work of a poet in full voice, at once lyrical, meditative, passionate and controlled. Sean Lucy, Professor of Modern English at University College Cork. He has written 'T.S. Eliot and the Idea of Tradition', (London 1960, Cohen and West; New York 1961, Barnes and Noble; reprinted 1971), and edited and contributed to 'Love Poems of the Irish', (Mercier Press Cork 1967, reprinted 1973); 'Five Irish Poets, ' (Mercier Press, Cork 1970); 'Irish Poets in English', (Mercier Press, Cork 1973); 'Goldsmith: the Gentle Master' (Wolfhound Press). He has had poems, stories, and critical articles published in Ireland, England, France, Denmark, the United States of America and Canada.

Edition details

• Publisher: Merlin Publishing
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0905473388
• ISBN 13: 9780905473383
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64