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MANGAN, JAMES CLARENCE (1803-1849)

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MANGAN, JAMES CLARENCE (1803-1849)

MANGAN, See also:
JAMES
JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
JAMES, EPISTLE OF
JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES See also:
CLARENCE, DUKES OF
CLARENCE (1803-1849) , Irish poet, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

DUBLIN

Dublin on the 1st of May 1803. His baptismal name was James, the " Clarence" being his own addition. His See also:

FATHER

father, a See also:

GROCER

grocer, who boasted of the terror with which he inspired his See also:

CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children, had ruined himself by imprudent See also:

SPECULATION

speculation and extravagant hospitality. The See also:

BURDEN, or BURTHEN

burden of supporting the See also:

FAMILY

family See also:

fell on James, who entered a scrivener's See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office, at the See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of fifteen, and drudged as a copying clerk for ten years. He was employed for some See also:

time in the library of Trinity See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, and in 1833 he found a See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in the Irish See also:

ORDNANCE (a syncopated form of " ordinance " or " ordonnance," so spelt in this sense since the 17th century)

Ordnance Survey. He suffered a disappointment in love, and continued See also:

ill See also:

HEALTH

health drove him to the use of See also:

OPIUM (Gr. amov, dim. from Orbs, juice)

opium. He was habitually the victim of hallucinations which at times threatened his See also:

REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason. For See also:

Charles See also:

MATURIN, CHARLES ROBERT (1782-1824)

Maturin, the See also:

ECCENTRIC (from Gr. F,c, out of, and Kivrpov, centre)

eccentric author of Melmoth, he cherished a deep admiration, the results of which are evident in his See also:

PROSE

prose stories. He belonged to the See also:

COMET (Gr. Koµieiis, long-haired)

Comet See also:

CLUB (connected with " clump ")

Club, a See also:

GROUP

group of youthful enthusiasts who carried on See also:

war in their See also:

paper, the Comet, against the levying of See also:

TITHES

tithes on behalf of the See also:

PROTESTANT

Protestant See also:

clergy. Contributions to the Dublin See also:

Penny See also:

Journal followed; and to the Dublin University See also:

MAGAZINE

Magazine he sent See also:

TRANSLATIONS

translations from the See also:

German poets. The mystical tendency of German See also:

POETRY

poetry had a See also:

SPECIAL

special See also:

APPEAL

appeal for him. He See also:

CHOSE (Fr. for " thing ")

chose poems that were attuned to his own See also:

MELANCHOLY (Gr. µe)tayXotia, from µEtas, black, and Xotii, bile)

melancholy temperament, and did much that was excellent in this See also:

field.

He also wrote versions of old Irish poems, though his knowledge of the See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, at any See also:

RATE

rate at the beginning of his career, was but slight. Some of his best-known Irish poems, however, O'Hussey's See also:

ODE (Gr. uiSri, from aei&ew, to sing)

Ode to the Maguire, for instance, follow the originals very closely. Besides these were " translations " from Arabic, See also:

TURKISH

Turkish and See also:

Persian. How much of these See also:

LANGUAGES

languages he knew is uncertain, but he had read widely in See also:

ORIENTAL

Oriental subjects, and some of the poems are exquisite though the See also:

ORIGINAL

original authors whom he cites are frequently mythical. He took a mischievous See also:

PLEASURE (through Fr. plaisir from Lat. placere, to please; Gr. rlbovii)

pleasure in mystifying his readers, and in practising extraordinary metres. For the Nation he wrote from the beginning (1842) of its career, and much of his best See also:

WORK

work appeared in it. He afterwards contributed to the See also:

UNITED

United Irishman. On the loth of See also:

JUNE

June 1849 he died at See also:

MEATH (pronounced with th soft, as in the)

Meath See also:

HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

Hospital, Dublin, of See also:

CHOLERA (from the Gr. Xo)du, tile, and Map, to flow)

cholera. It was alleged at the time that See also:

STARVATION

starvation was the real cause. This statement was untrue, but there is no doubt that his wretched poverty made him ill able to withstand disease. Mangan holds a high place among Irish poets, but his fame was deferred by the inequality and See also:

mass of his work, much of which See also:

lay buried in inaccessible newspaper files under his many pseudonyms, " Vacuus," " Terrae Filius," " Clarence," &c. Of his See also:

GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius, morbid though it sometimes is, as in his tragic autobiographical ballad of The Nameless One, there can be no question.

He expressed with rare sincerity the tragedy of Irish hopes and aspirations, and he furnished abundant See also:

PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)

proof of his versatility in his excellent nonsense verses, which are in See also:

STRANGE, SIR ROBERT (1721-1792)

strange contrast with the See also:

general trend of his work. An autobiography which appeared in the Irish Monthly (1882) does not reproduce the real facts of his career with any fidelity. For some time after his See also:

DEATH

death there was no adequate edition of his See also:

WORKS

works, but German See also:

ANTHOLOGY

Anthology (1845), and The Poets and Poetry of See also:

Munster (1849) had appeared during his lifetime. In 185o See also:

Hercules See also:

Ellis included See also:

THIRTY

thirty of his See also:

BALLADS

ballads in his Romances and Ballads of See also:

Ireland. Other selections appeared subsequently, notably one (1897), by See also:

MISS

Miss L. I. Guiney. The Poems of James Clarence Magan (1903),, and the Prose Writings (1904), were both edited by D. J. O'Donoghue, who wrote in 1897 a See also:

COMPLETE

complete See also:

account of the See also:

LIFE

Life and Writings of the poet.

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