Nevertheless, a growing band of readers in Ireland, Britain and America now regard him as one of the finest poets that this country has produced since Yeats." "In the introduction to Coffey's work, Donal Moriarty examines the way the poems release their meaning by concentrating on their sounds and rhythms. This book discussed the early poems, the late long poems Advent and Death of Hektor, and Coffey's remarkable translations from the French of poems by Gerard de Nerval, Rimbaud and Mallarme."--Jacket.