PATRIOTIC SUITE (SIGNED)

Author: Montague, John
Title: PATRIOTIC SUITE (SIGNED)
Publication: Dublin, Ireland: The Dolmen Press, 1966
Edition: First Edition

Description: Softcover. Octavo, 8.25 in. x 5.6 in., pp. 16. Signed by the author on the limited edition page: #98/100. Illustrated with four woodcuts by John Derrick from "The Image of Irelande" (1581). Golden cardpaper covers with dark brown muse playing the harp and black title to front. Dark green and ochre endpapers. Cardpaper slipcase has woodcut of soldiers going to battle to front. Touch of age-toning to slipcase. Near Fine / Very Good Plus (slipcase).

John Montague was born in Brooklyn to Irish Catholic parents who had been involved in Ireland’s post-1916 national strife and had immigrated to the United States. In New York the family struggled through the Great Depression, and in 1933 four-year-old Montague and his two brothers were sent back to Ireland. Montague was raised by two aunts on the family farm and educated at the seminary of Saint Patrick’s College in Armagh. He attended the University College Dublin, where he published his first poems.

Montague’s poems often find their shape in extended sequences that engage themes of travel and exile, national identity, and personal loss. As Edna Longey noted in the Times Literary Supplement: “more than any poet of his generation he opened up channels between the Irish and English tradition, between regional and cosmopolitan allegiances, between Ulster and Irish perspectives.” (from Poetry Foundation).

Seller ID: 88865

Subject: Irish and Ireland