Patrick Kavanagh (1) (1904–1967)
Auteur de Tarry Flynn
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A propos de l'auteur
"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
Crédit image: Photo of Kavanagh frontispiece from Poems
Œuvres de Patrick Kavanagh
Patrick Kavanagh Man and Poet 1 exemplaire
centenary celebrations 1904 - 2004 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contributeur — 448 exemplaires
Great Irish Writing: The Best from the Bell (Classic Irish Fiction) (1978) — Contributeur — 20 exemplaires
Apocalypse of Clay: A Study of Patrick Kavanagh's Masterpiece 'The Great Hunger' (2013) 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Caomhánaigh, Padraig
- Date de naissance
- 1904-10-21
- Date de décès
- 1967-11-30
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Ireland
- Lieu de naissance
- Inniskeen, County Monaghan, Ireland
- Lieu du décès
- Dublin, Ireland
- Lieux de résidence
- Inniskeen, County Monaghan, Ireland (birth)
Dublin, Ireland (death) - Études
- Kednaminsha National School
- Professions
- farmer
Gaelic football player
poet
journalist
novelist
playwright (tout afficher 7)
shoemaker
Membres
Discussions
Poem: Aladdin says. . . . à Name that Book (Juin 2017)
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 19
- Aussi par
- 11
- Membres
- 852
- Popularité
- #30,032
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 63
- Langues
- 4
- Favoris
- 6
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.… (plus d'informations)