THE IRISH WRITERS SERIES JAMES F. CARENS, General Editor Sir Samuel Ferguson MALCOLM BROWN Sir Samuel Ferguson is another volume in the Irish Writers Series, monographs designed to treat individually modern Anglo-Irish authors. The present volume examines Sir Samuel Ferguson s career, especially in light of its impact upon W. B. ; Yeats, who had called Ferguson "Ireland s greatest poet, and the "most Irish of all Irish writers. Ferguson was a great satirist and translator, and an important Protestant idealogue. Dr. Brown is Professor of English at the University of Washington. Portrait from Lady Ferguson, Sir Samuel Ferguson in the Ireland of His Day, 1896.
Malcolm Brown is a best-selling popular military historian. Originally a television producer specialising in military documentaries, he has been a freelance historian at the Imperial War Museum since 1989. Brown has researched and written extensively on the First and Second World Wars. He is a regular contributor to BBC History Magazine, and lives in Reading.