A poet's country
Subtitle: selected prose
By: Patrick Kavanagh ; edited by Antoinette Quinn.
Contributors: Quinn, Antoinette.
Publisher: Lilliput Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Description: "A Poet's Country is both a reliable scholarly edition and an immensely readable, entertaining collection. It contains the essential shorter prose works from throughout Kavanagh's career: the legendary autobiographical pieces and rural reminiscences, as well as a thorough selection of Kavanagh's penetrating, sometimes scabrous, literary criticism. Its verve and musicality, poignancy and pitch, rage and glory, expresses as no other the voice of rural Ireland. Like a menhir, Kavanagh stands alone at the summit of Irish literature of the mid twentieth century."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-319).