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John Montague: A Poet's Life

John Montague: A Poet's Life

Frazier, Adrian

Paperback

Series: Dillon Johnston Critical

Literary FiguresLiterary CriticismGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $32.95

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ISBN10: 1943667217
ISBN13: 9781943667215
Publisher: Wake Forest University Press
Published: Nov 1 2026
Pages: 528
Language: English
In the late twentieth century, Irish poetry achieved an historic quality, a golden era to compare with the verse of the Elizabethan and Romantic periods. A Poet's Life is the definitive biography of one of the first and foremost poets in this golden generation, John Montague. Inspired by the examples of Yeats and Joyce, he consciously educated himself to play a central role in the self-understanding of his people. Ahead of the public recognition of such issues, Montague wrote personally about abortion, divorce, alcoholism, domestic violence, and clerical abuse in education. His poetry offered to others release from a painful past. Out of where he was most hurt, his best work issued. When the Troubles erupted in his home province, he was to the forefront in engaging with events directly, sometimes in a cross-community effort with fellow poets of the other faith. Written by lauded biographer and close personal acquaintance Adrian Frazier, this record of Montague's life is also an intimate, familial account of modern Irish poetry and its precision, documentary basis, and reliable chronology. It is sure to become a vital conduit into a body of poetry that will never be forgotten.

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