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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.
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Collected Poems (Paperback)
Patrick Kavanagh; Edited by Antoinette Quinn
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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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