Monk Gibbon

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William Monk Gibbon (1896 - 29 November 1987) was an Irish poet and prolific author. He wrote also novels, travel writing and criticism. He has been characterised as "self-regarding and prickly".[1]

His father (also William Monk Gibbon) was a Church of Ireland clergyman, from 1900 vicar of the parish of Taney, Dundrum.[1] There Lily Yeats, sister of W. B. Yeats, was a parishioner.[2]. There was also a family relationship: Gibbon and the Yeats family were cousins. There was no love lost between the poets Gibbon and Yeats, however; and the biography Gibbon wrote was rather hostile.

[edit] Works

  • The Branch of Hawthorn Tree (1927)
  • The Seals (1935) autobiography
  • The Living Torch (1937) poems by AE, editor
  • Mount Ida (1948)
  • This Insubstantial Pageant (1951)
  • The Masterpiece and the Man: Yeats as I Knew Him (1959) biography
  • The Climate of Love (1961)
  • Inglorious Soldier (1968) memoir
  • The Brahms Waltz (1970)
  • The Velvet Bow (1972)
  • The Pupil (1981)

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ R. F. Foster. W. B. Yeats,: A Life, II p. 434.

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