Irish poets

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 196. Chapters: Oscar Wilde, C. S. Lewis, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, W. B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Jonathan Swift, Michael D. Higgins, John Kells Ingram, Aldfrith of Northumbria, Chris Agee, George Moore (novelist), Oliver St. John Gogarty, Patrick Kavanagh, Patrick Pearse, Darrell Figgis, Thomas Moore, John Millington Synge, Brendan Behan, Louis MacNeice, Colm Tóibín, Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh, Augusta, Lady Gregory, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Douglas Hyde, Tom Kettle, Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, John Dillon, Paul Muldoon, Diarmait mac Cerbaill, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Óengus of Tallaght, John Philpot Curran, Oliver Goldsmith, John Banim, Adomnán, Michael Feeney Callan, Seán MacEntee, William Henry Drummond, Francis Ledwidge, Charles Gavan Duffy, John Boyle O'Reilly, Christopher Nolan (author), Dermot Bolger, Cecil Day-Lewis, John Hewitt (poet), Willie Wilde, Edmund Lenihan, John Montague (poet), Daniel O'Connell (journalist), Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Colmán of Cloyne, Eavan Boland, Antoine Ó Raifteiri, Edwin James Milliken, Dubthach maccu Lugair, Jimmy MacCarthy, Pearse Hutchinson, Celia de Fréine, Micheal O'Siadhail, Brian Coffey, Thomas MacDonagh, William Wall, Patrick Galvin, Mary Tighe, Tony Curtis (Irish poet), Ewart Milne. Excerpt: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams and plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment which was followed by his early death. Wilde's parents were successful Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art", and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London. At the height of his fame and success, while his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), was still on stage in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his lover, Lord Alfre