The Great Hunger
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Tragic and comic, irascible and exalted poems
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.





Tragic and comic, irascible and exalted poems
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).
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.
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.