The Poetical Works of Thomas MacDonagh contains an introduction by James Stephens written on August 10th, 1916. Published 3 months after his death Stephens writes ‘here are the poems of a good man’. The book published by T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd is divided into sections: Lyrical Poems, The Book of Images, Translations, Early Poems, Inscriptions and Miscellaneous Poems.
