CELT document E860001-008

To the Harper O'Connellan

Samuel Ferguson

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     p.46

    To the Harper O'Connellan

    After the Irish

  1. Enchanter who reignest
    Supreme o'er the North,
    Who hast wiled the coy spirit
    Of true music forth;
    In vain Europe's minstrels
    To honour aspire.
    When thy swift slender fingers
    Go forth on the wire!
  2.  p.47
  3. There is no heart's desire
    Can be felt by a king,
    That thy hand cannot match
    From the soul of the string,
    By its conquering, capturing,
    Magical sway.
    For, charmer, thou stealest
    Thy notes from a fay!
  4. Enchanter, I say, —
    For thy magical skill
    Can soothe every sorrow,
    And heal every ill:
    Who hear thee they praise thee;
    They weep while they praise;
    For, charmer, from Fairyland
    Fresh are thy lays!

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Title (uniform): To the Harper O'Connellan

Author: Samuel Ferguson

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Electronic edition compiled and proof-read by: Beatrix Färber

Funded by: School of History, University College, Cork

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Date: 2016

Distributor: CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.

CELT document ID: E860001-008

Availability: The works by Sir Samuel Ferguson are in the public domain. This electronic text is available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of private or academic research and teaching.

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Life and Work of Sir Samuel Ferguson

  1. Mary Catherine Guinness Ferguson, Sir Samuel Ferguson in the Ireland of his Day (Edinburgh/London 1896).
  2. Arthur Deering, Sir Samuel Ferguson, Poet and Antiquarian (Philadelphia 1931).
  3. Malcolm Brown, Sir Samuel Ferguson (Lewisburg) 1973.
  4. Robert O'Driscoll, An ascendancy of the heart: Ferguson and the beginnings of modern Irish literature in English (Dublin 1976).
  5. Joseph Th. Leerssen, Mere Irish and Fíor-Ghael: Studies in the idea of Irish nationality, its development and literay expression prior to the nineteenth century (Amsterdam/Philadelphia 1986).
  6. Terence Brown and Barbara Hayley (eds), Samuel Ferguson: a centenary tribute (Dublin: Royal Irish Academy 1987).
  7. Maurice Harmon, The Enigma of Samuel Ferguson, in: O. Komesu, M. Sekine (eds), Irish writers and politics (Irish Literary Studies 36) (Gerrards Cross 1989) 62–79.
  8. Peter Denman, Samuel Ferguson: the literary achievement (Gerrards Cross, Bucks. 1990).
  9. Eve Patten, 'Samuel Ferguson: a tourist in Antrim', in: Gerald Dawe and John Wilson Foster, (eds), The poet's place: Ulster literature and society: essays in honour of John Hewitt, 1907–87 (Belfast: Queen's University of Belfast, Institute of Irish Studies, 1991).
  10. Gréagóir Ó Dúill, Samuel Ferguson: Beatha agus Saothar (Baile Átha Cliath [=Dublin] 1993.
  11. Gréagóir Ó Dúill, Sir Samuel Ferguson (1810–1886), in: Eamon Phoenix (ed), A century of northern life: The Irish News and 100 years of Ulster history, 1890s–1990s (Belfast 1995) 182–186.
  12. Sean Ryder, 'The politics of landscape and region in nineteenth-century poetry', in: Leon Litvack, Glenn Hooper (eds), Ireland in the nineteenth century: regional identity (Dublin 2000).
  13. Eve Patten, Samuel Ferguson and the culture of nineteenth-century Ireland (Dublin 2004).
  14. Peter Denman, William Carleton and Samuel Ferguson: lives and contacts, in: Gordon Brand (ed), William Carleton, the authentic voice (Gerard's Cross 2006) 360–377.
  15. Eve Patten, Samuel Ferguson's Hibernian Nights' Entertainments, in: James H. Murphy (ed), The Irish book in English, 1800–1891. The Oxford History of the Irish Book, 4 (Oxford: 2011).
  16. Matthew Campbell, 'Samuel Ferguson's Maudlin Jumble', in: Kirstie Blair, Mina Gorji (eds), Class and the canon: constructing labouring-class poetry and poetics, 1780–1900 (Basingstoke 2013).

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  • Poems of Sir Samuel Ferguson are available on www.archive.org.

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Ferguson, Samuel (1918). ‘To the Harper O’Connellan’. In: Poems of Sir Samuel Ferguson‍. Ed. by Alfred Perceval Graves. Dublin: Talbot Press, pp. 46–47.

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  author 	 = {Samuel Ferguson},
  title 	 = {To the Harper O'Connellan},
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  address 	 = {Dublin},
  date 	 = {1918},
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Creation: 1858–1864

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  • The poem is in English. (en)

Keywords: O'Connellan; harper; poetry; Celtic revival; 19c

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