The Green Fool (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Kavanagh, Patrick

 
9780141184203: The Green Fool (Penguin Modern Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0141184205 ISBN 13: 9780141184203
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

My part of Ireland had a poet at one time, a poor ragged fellow whom no respectable person whom no respectable person would be seen talking to, but he left doors open as he passed.

A delightful autobiographical novel from one of Ireland's best-loved writers

Time hardly mattered in the village of Mucker, the birthplace of poet and writer Patrick Kavanagh. Full of wry humour, Kavanagh's unsentimental and evocative account of his Irish rural upbringing describes a patriarchal society surviving on the edge of poverty, sustained by the land and an insatiable love of gossip. There are tales of schoolboy skirmishes, blackberrying and night-time salmon-poaching; of country-weddings and fairs, of political banditry and religious pilgrimages; and of farm-work in the fields and kicking mares.

Kavanagh's experiences inspired him to write poetry which immortalized a fast-disappearing way of life and brought him recognition as one of Ireland's great poets.

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One of the major figures in the modern Irish poetic canon, Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) was a post-colonial poet who released Anglo-Irish verse from its prolonged obsession with history, ethnicity and national politics. His poetry, written in an uninhibited vernacular style, focused on the 'common and banal' aspects of contemporary life.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0141184205
ISBN 13 
9780141184203
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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