Maurice Harmon is the leading scholar-critic of his generation in the field of Anglo-Irish Literature. He pioneered its development as an academic discipline and is the author of a number of significant works, from a basic bibliographical guide to headline studies of Seán O'Faoláin, Austin Clarke, Thomas Kinsella, and others. His publications include Seán O'Faoláin. A Life (1994), Selected Essays (2006), and Thomas Kinsella. Designing for the Exact Needs (2008). He edited the definitive anthology Irish Poetry after Yeats (1978, 1998) and published The Dialogue of the Ancients of Ireland (2009), a new translation of Acallam na Senórach.

Books by Maurice Harmon:

Other poems on the web by Maurice Harmon:
"At Water's Edge"
Three poems