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Patrick Kavanagh (1) (1904–1967)

Auteur de Tarry Flynn

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"My life has in many ways been a tragedy and a failure," wrote Patrick Kavanagh toward his death. Born in Innishkeen, County Monaghan, Kavanagh ended his formal education after grammar school. He lived on a farm in his native parish until moving to Dublin in 1939, which he later described as one of afficher plus the great mistakes of his life. There he supported himself primarily through journalism until awarded a sinecure of #400 a year for extramural lectures at University College, Dublin. After an illness in the mid-1950s, he grew resigned to obscurity and mellowed in his long literary war with both Irish repression and the Irish literary establishment. Besides his journalism, he also wrote novels of an autobiographical type. Sprung from Roman Catholic peasant stock, Kavanagh saw himself as voicing his own heritage against more anglicized (and more famous) writers. His first volume, Ploughman and Other Poems, established the rural themes that mark much of his verse. His best-known, and perhaps his greatest poem, The Great Hunger (1942), follows a potato farmer named Patrick Maguire through the famine of the 1840s and presents a blistering attack on the sexual and spiritual deprivation of rural Irish peasantry. Kavanagh later criticized the poem as lacking humor, and his subsequent work shows a more temperate acceptance of the ironic comedy of life, as in "Canal Bank Walk." (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Patrick Kavanagh

Tarry Flynn (1948) 178 exemplaires
Collected Poems (1964) 175 exemplaires
The Green Fool (1938) 147 exemplaires
Selected Poems (1982) 106 exemplaires
The Great Hunger (1942) 75 exemplaires
The Complete Poems (1972) 30 exemplaires
A Poet's Country: Selected Prose (2003) 15 exemplaires
Self Portrait (1964) 5 exemplaires
Collected pruse (1967) 4 exemplaires
Selected Poems | Patrick Kavanagh (2022) 2 exemplaires
Lough Derg (1983) 1 exemplaire
Kavanagh Country (2009) 1 exemplaire
A Soul for Sale (1947) 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Contributeur — 1,258 exemplaires
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contributeur — 448 exemplaires
The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology (1992) — Contributeur — 389 exemplaires
The Penguin Book of Irish Verse (1981) — Contributeur — 194 exemplaires
The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999) — Contributeur — 151 exemplaires
The Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories (1981) — Contributeur — 130 exemplaires
Emergency Kit (1996) — Contributeur, quelques éditions108 exemplaires
New World Writing: Fourth Mentor Selection (1953) — Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
William Carleton The Autobiography (1968) — Préface, quelques éditions4 exemplaires

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Usually publishers have a clear distinct understanding in the use of "selected poetry" and "collected poetry", the former suggesting a selection and the latter suggesting completeness albeit "up till then". It is also true that occasionally the title of a book on the cover is different from the title on the title page, often for marketing purposes. I wonder why the title of this volume is "Collected poems" on the title page but "Selected poems" on the cover. (Patrick Kavanagh (2005). Selected poems in Penguin Classics. The editor Antoinnette Quinn has quite a lot to say about about this in the bibliographical note (pp. xli-xlii), insisting that the present volume is named "Selected poems", making the title on the title page all the more puzzling, as in academic practice the title on the title page should take precedence over the title on the cover.

Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967) was an Irish poet. The introduction mentions that Kavanagh's poetry was not very well received by critics. He saw himself as an outsider, hesitant to call himself a poet.

The poems show an independent mind that doesn't regard or follow the trends of the time. The reading is not easy. as poems seem of a certain roughness or stubbornness or even clumsiness over melodious flow. The poetry is marked my religion and rural, elements not often associated with modern poetry. Still, the poet seems to try to reconcile the modern form with traditional rhythm and form of ballads.

I did not enjoy reading this collection, few poems really interested me.
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edwinbcn | Dec 4, 2021 |
I didn't enjoy this book. While it was evocative of rural life in 1930s Ireland, I found I couldn't develop any strong feelings for any of the characters.
 
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LynnB | 1 autre critique | Aug 13, 2016 |
Kavanagh's early work dig a sharpened poetic shovel into the rotten belly of the Church and the colonial powers of England, and is some of Irlenad's best modern poetry. The bulk of his later poems are highly reflective, and sometimes even humorous. A few of the later poems stand out, but many are rather forgettable. Still, this doesn't diminish Kavanagh's well deserved reputation as a master poetic stylist.
 
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poetontheone | Mar 29, 2015 |
A work of fiction by the Monaghan poet, but rooted in his own
upbringing. Tarry is stuck in a parish in Cavan, on a small farm
with his mother and three sisters. Its an extremely funny book,
as Tarry gets into endless squabbles with his neighbours and
annoys the parish priest at every opportunity. He's also trying
to impress the daughter of the local schoolteacher but
spends a lot of his time trying to avoid the pleasures available
from some of the other local caílin. At the same time, Tarry
finds beauty in the 'stony soil' and there's some wonderfully
evocative descriptions, as you'd expect from a master poet.
I loved the dialogue in this as well, full of witticisms and
country truths and wisdom. Was sad when I finished this,
could have done with another few hundred pages of the same.
Will be putting Kavanagh's other work, 'The green fool', on
my reading list.
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mackthefinger | 1 autre critique | May 18, 2010 |

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