Modern Classics Selected Poems

by Patrick Kavanagh, Antoinette Quinn (Foreword by), Antoinette Quinn (Editor)

Overview

Published in order of first publication as far as possible, this selection ranges from initial offerings such as 'Tinker's Wife' and 'Inniskeen Road: July Evening' to his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger' (1942) and his celebratory later verse, 'To Hell with Common Sense' and 'Come Dance with Kitty Stobling', which show his increasing comic verve and detachment. The first comprehensive selection of Kavanagh's poetry to be published, this volume offers a timely reassessment of a poet unfairly neglected outside Ireland.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780141183480
Publisher:	Penguin UK
Publication date:	05/02/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

One of the major figures in the modern Irish poetic canon, Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) was a post-colonial poet who released Anglo-Irish verse from its prolonged obsession with history, ethnicity and national politics. His poetry, written in an uninhibited vernacular style, focused on the 'common and banal' aspects of contemporary life.