A Poet's Country Selected Prose

This is the first authoritative gathering of the shorter prose writings of Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967), one of Ireland's greatest modern poets. While he was best known as a poet, For most of his writing life he was a prolific producer of critical an

Antoinette Quinn is author of Patrick Kavanagh: A Biography (2001), the standard life, and of Patrick Kavanagh: Born-Again Romantic (1991), a study of the poetry. She is also editor of the Penguin edition of Kavanagh's Selected Poems (1996) and of a forthcoming Collected Poems.

Introduction

9

(14)

Editor's Note

23

(4)

Part I

A Poet's Country

27

(4)

Journeymen Shoemakers

31

(4)

Sentimental Ploughman

35

(4)

Europe Is at War - Remembering Its Pastoral Peace

39

(5)

To the Corn Goddess

44

(4)

A Winter's Tale

48

(5)

Christmas in the Country

53

(4)

Some Evocations of No Importance

57

(6)

Sunday in the Country

63

(3)

Ash Wednesday in Inniskeen

66

(3)

The Seed of Poetry

69

(4)

H.E. King Spud

73

(3)

The Turkey Market

76

(3)

I Went to the Fair

79

(4)

The Dundalk Market Train

83

(4)

The Stir

87

(3)

The Marriage Market

90

(5)

Old Wive's Tales of Ireland

95

(3)

Gut Yer Man

98

(5)

Return in Harvest

103

(10)

Part II

from 'City Commentary'

113

(2)

The Tailor and Ansty

115

(3)

When You Go to Lough Derg

118

(3)

Down the Shannon to Clonmacnoise-Pilgrim at the Oar

121

(3)

from `Round the Cinemas'

124

(2)

The Story of an Editor who was Corrupted by Love

126

(12)

The Old Road

138

(3)

Bachelorhood Is Tragedy

141

(4)

Roger Casement

145

(3)

In Praise of Wells

148

(4)

Preface to Trench's Realities of Irish Life

152

(5)

Part III

Old Moore's Poets

157

(6)

William Carleton

163

(4)

Preface to The Autobiography of William Carleton

167

(3)

Sex and Christianity

170

(4)

The Anglo-Irish Mind

174

(2)

W.B. Yeats

176

(2)

William Butler Yeats

178

(4)

George Moore's Yeats

182

(4)

The Playboys of the Western World

186

(3)

Paris in Aran

189

(4)

The Gallivanting Poet

193

(9)

James Joyce

202

(3)

Coloured Balloons: A Study of Frank O'Connor

205

(10)

My Three Books

215

(4)

Auden and the Creative Mind

219

(7)

Some Reflections on Waiting for Godot

226

(2)

The Bones of the Dead: Reflections on the Gaelic Language

228

(3)

Literature in the University

231

(6)

Parochialism and Provincialism

237

(1)

A Goat Tethered outside the Bailey

238

(5)

The Poetic Spirit

243

(3)

Nationalism and Literature

246

(6)

Violence and Literature

252

(5)

On Poetry

257

(6)

Part IV

Diary, June 1950

263

(6)

School Book Poetry

269

(3)

From Monaghan to the Grand Canal

272

(10)

Suffering and Literature

282

(5)

Autobiographical Note

287

(2)

On a Liberal Education

289

(10)

Writer at Work

299

(3)

Collected Poems: Author's Note

302

(3)

Self-Portrait

305

(12)

Bibliography

317

(3)

Editor's Acknowledgments

320

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