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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Gigantic Failures by Mark Anthony Cronin Gigantic Failures by Mark Anthony Cronin. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 66022b4719453244 • Your IP : 116.202.236.252 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. Cookie Consent and Choices. NPR’s sites use cookies, similar tracking and storage technologies, and information about the device you use to access our sites (together, “cookies”) to enhance your viewing, listening and user experience, personalize content, personalize messages from NPR’s sponsors, provide social media features, and analyze NPR’s traffic. This information is shared with social media, sponsorship, analytics, and other vendors or service providers. See details. You may click on “ Your Choices ” below to learn about and use cookie management tools to limit use of cookies when you visit NPR’s sites. You can adjust your cookie choices in those tools at any time. If you click “ Agree and Continue ” below, you acknowledge that your cookie choices in those tools will be respected and that you otherwise agree to the use of cookies on NPR’s sites. Cronin, Anthony 1926– ADDRESSES: Home —30 Oakley Rd., Dublin 6, Ireland. CAREER: Writer and critic. University of Montana, visiting lecturer in English, 1966–68; Drake University, poet in residence, 1968–70; University of Ulster, visiting professor, 1996–2002. Republic of Ireland, cultural and artistic advisor to the prime minister, 1980–83, 1987–92. MEMBER: Aosdana (elected saoi , 2003). AWARDS, HONORS: Marten Toonder Award, Arts Council of Ireland, 1983, for contributions to Irish literature; honorary degrees from National College of Art, Trinity College, Dublin, and University of Ulster. WRITINGS: POETRY. Poems , Cresset Press (London, England), 1957. Collected Poems, 1950–1973 , New Writers Press (Dublin, Ireland), 1973. Reductionist Poem , Raven Arts (Dublin, Ireland), 1980. R.M.S. Titanic (originally published in the magazine X, 1960), Raven Arts (Dublin, Ireland), 1981. 41 Sonnet-Poems 82 , Raven Arts (Dublin, Ireland), 1981. New and Selected Poems , Raven Arts (Dublin, Ireland), 1982. Letter to an Englishman , Raven Arts (Dublin, Ireland), 1985. The End of the Modern World , Raven Arts (Dublin, Ireland), 1988. Relationships , New Island Books (Dublin, Ireland), 1994. The Minotaur and Other Poems , New Island Books (Dublin, Ireland), 1999. Collected Poems , New Island Books (Dublin, Ireland), 2004. Also author of " Acceptance Poem ," 1979. Contributor to anthologies of poetry, including The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Verse , Faber (London, England), 1953; Mid-Century , Penguin (New York, NY), 1965; The Penguin Book of Longer Contemporary Poems , Penguin; and Irish Poets, 1924–1974 . Contributor of poetry to periodicals. OTHER. (Editor) William Carleton, The Courtship of Phelim O'Toole and Other Stories , 1962. The Life of Riley (novel), Knopf (New York, NY), 1964, reprinted, Faber & Faber (London, England), 1983. A Question of Modernity (literary criticism), Secker & Warburg (London, England), 1966. The Shame of It (play), 1971. Dead as Doornails: A Chronicle of Life (nonfiction), Dolmen (Dublin, Ireland), 1976, reprinted, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1998. Identity Papers (novel), Co-op Books (Dublin, Ireland), 1979. Heritage Now: Irish Literature in the English Language (literary criticism), Brandon (Dover, NH), 1982. An Irish Eye (essays), Brandon (Dover, NH), 1985. Art for the People? , Raven Arts (Dublin, Ireland), 1986. Ireland: A Week in the Life of a Nation (pictorial essay with text), edited by Red Saunders and Syd Shelton, Century (London, England), 1986. No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien (biography), Paladin Press (London, England), 1989, Fromm International (New York, NY), 1998. Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist , HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1997. (Editor) Anthony Cronin's Personal Anthology: Selections from His Sunday Independent Feature , New Island Books (Dublin, Ireland), 2000. Contributor to books, including Edward McGuire, RHA , by Brian Fallon and Sally McGuire, Irish Academic Press (Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland), 1991; author of foreword, Nights without Stars, Days without Sun , by Conleth O'Connor, New Island Books (Dublin, Ireland), 1997. Weekly columnist, Irish Times , 1974–80. Contributor to periodicals, including Times Literary Supplement, Times (London, England). New York Times, New Statesman , and Nation . Contributing editor, X; past associate editor, Bell; past literary editor, Time and Tide . SIDELIGHTS: Anthony Cronin's writings, many of which draw upon his experiences in the literary bohemia of Dublin and London in the years after World War II, have earned him considerable literary stature in Ireland. Although an author of novels and biographies, Cronin was originally recognized for his work with the magazines Bell and Time and Tide and for his poetry, the first collection of which was published in 1957. Cronin is also respected as a literary critic. When his New and Selected Poems was released in 1982, critics cited Cronin for the irony, wit, and intellectual vigor of his attacks on the tendency of people to live in a state of self-delusion. The collection includes his long poem "R.M.S. Titanic" which was originally published in 1960; termed by reviewers then as an allegory of Ireland's divided society, the poem presents a vision of the way tensions between the upper and lower classes could result in tragedy to their "ship," the nation of Ireland. David Profumo, reviewing New and Selected Poems in the Times Literary Supplement , described "R.M.S. Titanic" as "an archetype of [Cronin's] work," which he characterized as "intellectual, urbane, sardonic; his effects are … sombre, his verse … formally stringent." While some critics have faulted Cronin's adherence to formal styles and political topics, his verse collections The End of the Modern World and Letter to an Englishman have been positively reviewed. Assessing The End of the Modern World , a collection of 161 sonnets on various contemporary themes, Peter Porter stated in the London Observer that Cronin's "book is a feast of reason, and should be snapped up by anyone who cares for good sense decked out in rhetoric." Letter to an Englishman , a long poem detailing the history of Ireland's political turmoil, was cited by Tim Dooley in the Times Literary Supplement for its "sometimes baggy couplets and self-indulgent or self-vaunting asides," but the critic also noted "the acuity of [the poem's] observations and the easy, amusing conversational manner [that] make Letter to an Englishman an engaged poem which also manages to be engaging." Some of Cronin's other writings draw directly on his experiences in the postwar literary circles in Dublin and London that included friends and writers such as James Stephens, Flann O'Brien, Brendan Behan, Robert Colquhoun, and Patrick Kavanaugh. First published in 1964 and reprinted in 1983, Cronin's first novel, The Life of Riley , is a comic account of the title character, a part-time poet and full-time drinker, as he moves among literary aristocrats, impoverished bohemians, and various social misfits in London and Dublin. Considered a successfully comic novel when it was first published, The Life of Riley was judged more critically by later reviewers. George Craig in the Times Literary Supplement appreciated the character of Riley but found the eccentricity of the other individuals in the book to be overly drawn. Craig insisted that "with only Riley to set against an army of knaves and fools, the novel loses direction: there are too many … slow executions for it to be really funny, there is too little of Riley for it to be satirical." In his second novel, Identity Papers , Cronin presents another look at the society of Dublin pubs with a story focusing on the Baron, an unsuccessful painter who unknowingly sells forgeries of important historical documents to the Celtic Library of Ireland. Determined to clear his name by locating the original documents, the Baron journeys through the various drinking establishments of Dublin in hopes of discovering some useful information. Along the way the Baron encounters characters based on Cronin's associates, such as Stephens and O'Brien, in an atmosphere filled with uniquely Irish attitudes and dialogue. Patricia Craig, in the Times Literary Supplement , described the book as "genuinely funny" and notable for its "distinctive narrative pattern." Cronin also has attempted to capture the spirit of his contemporaries through nonfiction writings. Dead as Doornails: A Chronicle of Life is a portrait of Cronin and his artistic peers, their struggles to get their work recognized, their reactions to such recognition, and the interpersonal dynamics between the various writers. Two figures featured prominently in the book are the boisterous and intimidating Behan and the elusive Brian [O'Brien], who also wrote under the name Flann O'Brien. Critics faulted Cronin for not providing a detailed picture of O'Brien in Dead as Doornails , but Cronin provided a full-length look at the author in his biography No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien . "In writing the life of [O'Brien], Cronin knows that he is simultaneously describing an individual, marking a psychological type, and annotating a certain historical predicament," stated Denis Donoghue in a Times Literary Supplement assessment of No Laughing Matter . 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