Ethna MacCarthy (1903-59) was a Scholar and a First-Class Moderator
at Trinity College Dublin where she taught languages in the
thirties and forties before studying medicine. Perhaps best known
to posterity for her relationship with Samuel Beckett and
appearance in several of his writings, including the play Krapp's
Last Tape, she also had a remarkable influence on a number of
writers such as Denis Johnston and Con Leventhal, who she later
married. Found among Leventhal's papers when he died were
MacCarthy's overlooked work, revealing a highly intelligent and
culturally sophisticated poet. This collection, published here for
the first time, unearths an exceptionally rich and intriguing body
of work by a remarkable woman who was ahead of her time. MacCarthy
played an important and creative part of a cosmopolitan and
free-thinking post-Independence Dublin, publishing translations
from Spanish and German poets before developing a highly
distinctive style of her own. Her poetry contains exposed lunar and
death-haunted landscapes, tales of multifaceted women, and
subversive ideas around femininity. Her work highlights a gifted
translator who artfully captures the feeling evoked by the original
languages. According to Denis Johnston `she has never been shy, can
be frank, and outspoken to a degree, is absolutely fearless,
intolerant of mediocrity and finds it difficult to suffer fools
gladly'. MacCarthy merits reappraisal as an intellectual presence
in an age that did not often promote, if acknowledge at all, the
woman's voice. This unique collection of Ethna MacCarthy's poems is
published as an innovative first step in establishing her as one of
the outstanding Irish poets of the mid-20th century.
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