Edited by Shirley Mulligan
Introduction by A. Norman Jeffares
During the past decades there has been a substantial body of bibliographical, critical and biographical material published testifying to Stephens’ significance as poet, novelist, essayist, and short story writer. There has been an edition of his Letters by Richard J. Finneran (1974) and a two volume Uncollected Prose edited by Patricia McFate (1983). In addition, some of his prose works have been reprinted (The Crock of Gold; Irish Fairy Tales; Deirdre and The Insurrection in Dublin are presently listed by Amazon.co.uk), so a volume of Stephens’ poetry is long overdue.
