Antoinette Quinn
Author
Publisher
Gill & Macmillan
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
Antoinette Quinn's acclaimed biography of Patrick Kavanagh, the most important Irish poet between the death of W.B. Yeats and the rise of Seamus Heaney, tells the triumphant story of his journey from homespun balladry through early journal and poetry publications to his eventual coronation as one of the most influential figures in Irish poetry.
Kavanagh (1904–1967) was born in County Monaghan, the son of a cobbler-cum-small farmer.
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Publisher
Lilliput Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"A Poet's Country is both a reliable scholarly edition and an immensely readable, entertaining collection. It contains the essential shorter prose works from throughout Kavanagh's career: the legendary autobiographical pieces and rural reminiscences, as well as a thorough selection of Kavanagh's penetrating, sometimes scabrous, literary criticism. Its verve and musicality, poignancy and pitch, rage and glory, expresses as no other the voice of rural...
