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The Figure in the Cave - And Other Essays (Hardcover): John Montague, Antoinette Quinn The Figure in the Cave - And Other Essays (Hardcover)
John Montague, Antoinette Quinn
R561 Discovery Miles 5 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Figure in the Cave - And Other Essays (Paperback): John Montague, Antoinette Quinn The Figure in the Cave - And Other Essays (Paperback)
John Montague, Antoinette Quinn
R347 Discovery Miles 3 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Figure in the Cave selects the prose of one of Ireland's foremost contemporary poets - part autobiography, part criticism, part self-commentary - a gathering, from the mid-century to the present day, that marks a lifetime's critical engagement with literature in both Europe and America. In the title essay Montague looks over his career as a writer; in others he describes a coming-of-age in Ulster, explores his own poetics, and appraises Goldsmith, Carleton, George Moore, Joyce and Beckett, MacNeice, Clarke, Kavanagh, Hewitt and MacDiarmid. Pieces on American literature include a vignette of Saul Bellow, a review of Lowell and an intimate sketch of Berryman. To conclude, the author examines the impact of international modern poetry on Irish writing. Humorous, forceful, impressionistic, enriched with personal and political observation, this dialogue between early and later selves traces the development of the boy from Garvaghey to the figure in the cave, and reveals the workings of a fine poet's mind.

Collected Poems (Paperback): Patrick Kavanagh Collected Poems (Paperback)
Patrick Kavanagh; Edited by Antoinette Quinn
R329 R300 Discovery Miles 3 000 Save R29 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The centenary of Patrick Kavanagh's birth in 2004 provides the ideal opportunity to reappraise one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully independent country, both politically and culturally. Moving beyond Irish verse's preoccupation with history, national politics and identity, he turned to the land and scenery of his native Inniskeen, portraying the closely-observed minutiae of everyday rural and urban life in an uninhibited, groundbreaking style. Lucid, various, direct and engaging, Kavanagh's poems have a unique place in the canon and a unique accessibility. This major new edition is the culmination of many years of work by Antoinette Quinn in creating authoritative texts for Kavanagh's poetry - from his early works such as 'Inniskeen Road: July Evening' to his masterpiece, the epic 'The Great Hunger', allowing us to see the development of Kavanagh's genius as never before.

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