A Poet's Journal And Other Writings 1934-1974

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A powerful and authoritative selection of critical essays and reviews by poet Padraic Fallon.

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I-X	p. 5
The unique genius	p. 71
The native roots	p. 83
The poet in the New Ireland	p. 91
Raftery : poet of the people	p. 95
Athenry : childhood memories	p. 102
Five aspects of Yeats	p. 111
W. B. Yeats : man and poet	p. 122
W. B. Yeats and tradition	p. 126
Yeats the playwright	p. 130
Yeats' vision and the later plays	p. 134
AE, poet and visionary	p. 138
Letters from AE	p. 144
Austin Clarke : poet, playwright, prose writer	p. 150
Elsewhere in time	p. 162
F. R. Higgins : the poet as folksinger	p. 166
F. R. Higgins reassessed	p. 179
James Stephens as wonderchild	p. 186
James Stephens : a selection	p. 189
Sean O'Casey on himself	p. 193
Synge to Kinsella	p. 199
Ibsen and Synge	p. 207
George Bernard Shaw's Dublin roots	p. 211
A batch of poets, mostly minor	p. 214
Graves and Pound	p. 219
Graves and the muse : Oxford addresses on poetry	p. 223
A half-day's ride	p. 231
Taurine province	p. 235
Poems by T. S. Eliot and Edith Sitwell	p. 237
The green fool	p. 241
Old Galway : the history of a Norman Colony in Ireland	p. 244
As the crow flies	p. 247
Lucky poet : a self-study in literature and political ideas	p. 251
The hungry grass	p. 255
The life of the Virgin Mary	p. 258
The man who was Shakespeare	p. 261
The little monasteries	p. 264
Plays by Giraudoux and Ionesco	p. 266
New poems, Rainer Maria Rilke	p. 269
The Esdaile notebook	p. 272
Poetic love	p. 275
Nationalism in modern Anglo-Irish poetry	p. 279
I-VIII	p. 287
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