Patrick Kavanagh /

Patrick Kavanagh /

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Imprint:	Dublin ; Portland, OR : Irish Academic Press, 2009.
Description:	xi, 210 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Visions and revisions ; 1 Visions and revisions ; 1.
Subject:	Kavanagh, Patrick, -- 1904-1967 -- Criticism and interpretation. Kavanagh, Patrick, -- 1904-1967. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7488989

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Other authors / contributors:	Smith, Stan, 1943-
ISBN:	9780716528920 0716528924 9780716528937 (pbk.) 0716528932 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-198) and index.
Summary:	"Patrick Kavanagh has for long represented an alternative version of Irish poetry to the high-falutin' melodrama and rhetoric of W. B. Yeats. This collection of newly commissioned essays, by a range of established and younger scholars, re-examines his reputation in the light of recent thinking about Irish literature and the Ireland of his day in addition to authoritative, historically situated accounts of the whole body of his work, in prose and verse, individual studies consider his place in the pastoral tradition. his stylistic experimentation and debt to both popular and high intellectual traditions, his vision of rural and urban Ireland in the wake of independence, his reactions to contemporary political and social developments, and his continuing significance for present-day writers and readers." "This volume offers a definitive account for the general reader as well as the student of Irish literature and history of a writer whose reputation has continued to grow in the half century since his death. It will prove indispensable for anyone wishing to understand, not only the work of this uniquely original writer, but the Ireland in which he grew up and which his writing helped to define."--BOOK JACKET.
Other form:	Online version: Patrick Kavanagh. Dublin ; Portland, OR : Irish Academic Press, 2009

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Summary:	This volume offers a comprehensive account by a range of established scholars of the richness and variety of Patrick Kavanagh's work both in prose and verse, and situates his writings in the social and cultural contexts of the workaday Ireland which emerged from the heroics of nationalist insurrection and civil war. The distinguished scholars who contribute to this account bring a diverse range of approaches and perspectives to offer a fuller understanding of his work. Patrick Kavanagh has for long represented an alternative vision of Irish poetry to the high melodrama and attitudinising of W. B. Yeats. Low key and apparently equable in tone, though often revealing a sly acerbic wit, Kavanagh's verse has represented a domestic, though not domesticated, alternative to the high-falutin' rhetoric of the Yeatsian mode, pitching itself to the quotidian world of de Valera's 'Catholic Republic', famously extolling the virtues of the 'parochial' in contrast to the siren call of the cosmopolitan and metropolitan, like Joyce finding its inspiration in the streets and alleys of a middle and lower class Dublin and the stony acres, literal and metaphoric, of a sparse rural economy, and, like Flann O'Brien, preferring the bicycle as a mode of poetic transport to the high horse of the 'last Romantics'. It confirms Seamus Heaney's claim that Kavanagh 'gave single-handed permission for Irish poets to trust and cultivate their native ground and experience.'
Physical Description:	xi, 210 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-198) and index.
ISBN:	9780716528920 0716528924 9780716528937 0716528932