A powerful and authoritative selection of critical essays and
reviews by poet Padraic Fallon. Skilfully compiled and edited by
his son Brian Fallon, this book is published to mark the centenary
of his father's birth, and testifies to the enduring value of
literature in the flux of the twenty-first century. Padraic Fallon
(1905 - 1974), one of the foremost Irish poets of his generation
and a prolific writer of radio plays, was also an active
essay-reviewer in the leading periodicals of his day. His literary
criticism was incisive and witty, his erudition lightly worn.
Disinterred from old files of The Bell, The Dublin Magazine and The
Irish Times, his work remains fresh and readable decades on. Fallon
writes authoritatively about the key figures of the Literary
Revival: Gregory, Yeats, Stephans, Synge, Shaw and O'Casey - he
knew many of them - and also of his contemporaries F.R. Higgins and
Austin Clarke, with whom he shared a dedicated engagement with the
Irish tradition. He comines frank judgements of Eliot, Pound,
Graves, Auden, Gunn, Lowell, Larkin, Kinsella and others with
fascinating detours into an East Galway childhood and the folk
memories of Antony Raftery. The book is built around a core of
previously uncollected work, beginning with the controversial,
highly influential 'Poet's Journal' (The Bell, 1951-2) and closing
with the wide-ranging 'Verse Chronicles' (Dublin Magazine, 1956-8).
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