Patrick Kavanagh fu un poeta e romanziere irlandese, riconosciuto come uno dei massimi poeti del XX secolo. La sua opera è celebrata per le sue sincere rappresentazioni della vita irlandese, attingendo profondamente dal quotidiano e dal comune. I versi di Kavanagh esplorano spesso il paesaggio rurale e l'esistenza umana con uno sguardo profondo e impavido. La sua duratura importanza letteraria è consolidata dalla sua voce influente nella poesia irlandese e dal continuo riconoscimento del suo lascito.
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.
The Collected Poems comprises all the volumes of poetry that Vikram Seth has published this far. The books included are Mappings (1981), The Humble Administrator's Garden (1985), All You Who Sleep Tonight (1990), Three Chinese Poets (1992), Beastly Tales from Here and There (1992) and Arion and the Dolphin (1994).
Physical xix,415p; 22cm. Originally published The complete poems of Patrick Kavanagh, New York : P. Kavanagh Hand Press, 1972. Kavanagh, Patrick 1904-1967. Irish Poetry. Poetry.
Englischsprachige Lyrik im Originalton und in deutscher Übersetzung
Die größte zweisprachige Lyrik-Anthologie im Originalton versammelt 94 englischsprachige Lyrikerinnen und Lyriker und bietet seltene Sprachaufnahmen, die in mehrjähriger Recherche zusammengetragen wurden. Die Anthologie nimmt die Hörer mit auf eine zeitliche und geographische Reise durch das letzte Jahrhundert der englischsprachigen Welt. Die Übersetzungen werden von erstklassigen Schauspielern gelesen und stammen von angesehenen Lyrikern und Übersetzern. Zu den vertretenen Dichtern gehören Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Lee Masters, James Weldon Johnson, Walter de la Mare, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Robinson Jeffers, Edith Sitwell, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Archibald Macleish, Dorothy Parker, E. E. Cummings, Robert Ranke Graves, Louise Bogan, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Ogden Nash, Louis Zukofsky, Patrick Kavanagh, Samuel Beckett, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Elizabeth Bishop, John Cage, Karl Shapiro, Delmore Schwartz, Muriel Rukeyser, Dylan Thomas, James Laughlin, Robert Lowell, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bukowski, Richard Wilbur, Jack Kerouac, Philip Larkin, Denise Levertov, Michael Hamburger, Kenneth Koch, Robert Creeley, Robert Bly, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Charles Tomlinson
