PATRICK KAVANAGH Collected Poems

Kavanagh, Patrick

ISBN 10: 0713995998 / ISBN 13: 9780713995992

Published by Allen Lane, London & elsewhere, 2004

About this Item

First edition third printing hardcover edited by his biographer Antoinette Quinn. Currently scarce in hardcover. In black cloth covered boards with silver lettering to spine. Bottom corners heavily bumped (see photo). Edge wear to spine ends. Edge of page block foxed. Internally half title page, title page and contents pages are spotted. Otherwise clean and bright. Binding tight. Unclipped dust jacket has corresponding edge wear but no cuts tears or chips. Please examine all seller photos. Seller Inventory # 000848

Bibliographic Details

Title: PATRICK KAVANAGH Collected Poems

Publisher: Allen Lane, London & elsewhere

Publication Date: 2004

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Edited by Antoinette Quinn

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

The centenary of Patrick Kavanagh's birth in 2004 provides the ideal opportunity to reappraise one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. Lucid, various, direct and engaging, Kavanagh's poems have a unique place in the canon. This new edition is the culmination of many years of work by Antoinette Quinn in creating authoritative texts for Kavanagh's work - from his early works such as 'Inniskeen Road: July Evening' to such major pieces as 'The Great Hunger'.

About the Author:

Patrick Kavanagh was born in Inniskeen, County Monaghan, in 1904. His verse collections included Ploughman and Other Poems (1936), A Soul for Sale and Other Poems (1947) and Come Dance with Kitty Stobling (1960). He also wrote the novel Tarry Flynn (1948) and his autobiography The Green Fool (1938). He died in 1967. Antoinette Quinn is author of Patrick Kavanagh: A Biography (2001) and editor of Patrick Kavanagh: A Poet's Country, Selected Prose (2003) and of his Selected Poems (1996).