Harry Clarke The Eve of St Agnes is a beautifully illustrated book discussing each magnificent panel of Harry Clarke’s stained glass masterpiece and closely relates it to John Keats’s poem.

Harry Clarke The Eve of St Agnes is a beautifully illustrated book discussing each magnificent panel of Harry Clarke’s stained glass masterpiece and closely relates it to John Keats’s poem. The Eve of St Agnes stained glass window by Harry Clarke is also explored in new research by Jessica O’Donnell published in Harry Clarke and Artistic Visions of the New Irish State edited by A. Griffith, M. Helmers and R. Kennedy (2018, Irish Academic Press; ISBN 978-1788-5550-451) Her chapter ‘A Gorgeous Gallery of Poetic Pictures: Harry Clarke, Harold Jacob and John Keats’s The Eve of St Agnes’ offers new insights into the distinctive imagery employed by Clarke by closely relating it to John Keats’s poem as well as adding to our knowledge of its important patron, Harold Jacob of Jacob’s biscuit factory.

These publications are on sale in Hugh Lane Gallery Bookshop

Watch our Coffee Conversation on The Eve of St Agnes by Harry Clarke with Jessica O’Donnell.