Collected Poems

Collected Poems

Patrick Kavanagh
$20.00
Publication Date: October 17th, 1973
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN:
9780393006940
Pages:
220

Description

Patrick Kavanagh's imagery is drawn from the life of the Irish country poor, which he shared at first hand, and an inner landscape of pain and self-knowledge.

His is a unique voice in modern lyrical poetry—ferociously independent, by turns ironic, colloquial, lyrical.

About the Author

Patrick Kavanagh was born in Inniskeen, County Monaghan, in 1904. His verse collections included Ploughman and Other Poems (1936), A Soul for Sale and Other Poems (1947) and Come Dance with Kitty Stobling (1960). He also wrote the novel Tarry Flynn (1948) and his autobiography The Green Fool (1938). He died in 1967.

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