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The Wanderings of Oisin
Author
William Butler Yeats
Language
English
Genre
Epic poetry Narrative poetry
Publication date
1889
Followed by
The Song of the Happy Shepherd
The Wanderings of Oisin (/oʊˈʃiːn/oh-SHEEN) is an epic poem published by William Butler Yeats in 1889 in the book The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems.[1] It was his first publication outside magazines, and immediately won him a reputation as a significant poet.[2] This narrative poem takes the form of a dialogue between the aged Irish hero Oisín and St. Patrick, the man traditionally responsible for converting Ireland to Christianity. Most of the poem is spoken by Oisin, relating his 300-year sojourn in the isles of Faerie. Oisin was not a popular poem with modernist critics like TS Eliot.[3] However, Harold Bloom defended this poem in his book-length study of Yeats, and concludes that it deserves reconsideration.[4]
^Yeats 1889
^Matthew Russell reviewed the poem in the Irish Monthly (February 1889), stating "Ireland can boast of another true poet in William Yeats"; quoted in a later Irish Monthly (March 1953) article by Roger McHugh.
^"The poetry of the young Yeats hardly existed for me until after my enthusiasm had been won by the poetry of the older Yeats.." TS Eliot in The First Annual Yeats Lecture, Dublin 1940, collected in On Poetry & Poets, Faber 1957, quoted by John Kelly in his essay Eliot & Yeats, Yeats Annual no 20.
^Bloom, H; Yeats, Oxford University Press, 1970,
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