Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Brian Merriman

Ciaran Carson

Prefacio de

Ciaran Carson

Editorial

Wake Forest University Press

Año

2006

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.3x15.4x0.6 cm

Peso

0.12 kg.

ISBN

1930630255

ISBN13

9781930630253

Categorías

Irlanda
Reino unido
Poesía

The Midnight Court (en Inglés)

Brian Merriman (Autor) · Ciaran Carson (Autor, Prefacio de) · Wake Forest University Press · Tapa Blanda

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Originally written in the Irish language by the 18th-century poet Brian Merriman (circa 1745-1805), The Midnight Court is here translated by one of Ireland's distinguished contemporary poets, Ciaran Carson. This extended satiric poem assesses the growing economic, political, and familial constraints of late 18th-century Catholic Ireland under British colonial rule, while subversively playing on the tradition of the aisling (or vision) poem in which a beautiful woman represents Ireland's threatened sovereignty. At the beginning of The Midnight Court, a dreadful female envoy from the fairies appears in a dream to the unmarried poet. She summons him before the court of Queen Aoibheall in order to answer charges of wasting his manhood while women are dying for want of love. He listens to complaints that vary from the celibacy of the clergy to marriages performed between old and young for purely economic reasons. In all their bawdy tales, the female courtiers praise fertility, as well as sexual fulfillment, and condemn the conventions of the day. At last the Queen pronounces judgment on the poet, who awakens as he is being severely chastised by all of the women of the court. While containing many insights into 18th-century social conditions, The Midnight Court is also an exuberant, even jaunty work of the comic imagination. As the translator Ciaran Carson states in his foreword: "The protagonists of the 'Court, ' including 'Merriman' himself, are ghosts, summoned into being by language; they are figments of the imagination. In the 'Court' the language itself is continually interrogated and Merriman is the great illusionist, continually spiriting words into another dimension."