Ebook: A Poet's Country: Patrick Kavanagh Selected Prose

While Patrick Kavanagh (190467) was above all a poet, for most of his writing life he was a prolific producer of critical and autobiographical prose. Work for newspapers and magazines was often his main source of income, and provided him with a necessary outlet for his views on the writers of his time, and past times; on the spiritual function of poetry; and on his own background and experiences as an isolated genius, impoverished, sometimes ostracized, and surrounded, as he saw it, by mediocrity. The prose complements the poetry telling us things about Kavanagh that the poems do not tell. Thi.;Cover; Title Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Editor's Note; Part I; A Poet's Country; Journeymen Shoemakers; Sentimental Ploughman; Europe Is at War -- Remembering Its Pastoral Peace; To the Corn Goddess; A Winter's Tale; Christmas in the Country; Some Evocations of No Importance; Sunday in the Country; Ash Wednesday in Inniskeen; The Seed of Poetry; H.E. King Spud; The Turkey Market; I Went to the Fair; The Dundalk Market Train; The Stir; The Marriage Market; Old Wives' Tales of Ireland; Gut Yer Man; Return in Harvest; Part II; from 'City Commentary'; The Tailor and Ansty.