Collected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics Poetry)

428 Pages·2005·0.96 MB·English

by  Patrick Kavanagh

COLLECTED POEMS

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

Edited by
ANTOINETTE QUINN

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This collection first published by Allen Lane 2004
Published in Penguin Classics 2005
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Copyright 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944,
1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956 by Patrick Kavanagh
Copyright © Patrick Kavanagh, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966
Copyright © Katherine B. Kavanagh, 1972, 1978
Copyright © The Trustees of the Estate of the late Katherine B. Kavanagh, through the Jonathan Williams
Literary Agency
Introduction and Notes copyright © Antoinette Quinn, 2004
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Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Editorial Note
The Poems
1929–38

Address to an Old Wooden Gate
The Intangible
Ploughman
To a Blackbird
Gold Watch
Beech Tree
To a Child
My Room
Four Birds
To a Late Poplar
After May
Tinker’s Wife
April
Inniskeen Road: July Evening
March
Sanctity
Monaghan Hills
The Hired Boy
My People
Shancoduff
April Dusk
Poplar Memory
Poet
Pursuit of an Ideal
In the Same Mood
The Irony of It
Plough-horses
Snail
The Weary Horse
Pygmalion
1939–46

Anna Quinn
Primrose
Memory of My Father
Christmas, 1939
Christmas Eve Remembered
To the Man After the Harrow
Spraying the Potatoes
Pilgrims
Stony Grey Soil
A Christmas Childhood
Art McCooey
The Long Garden
Why Sorrow?
The Great Hunger
Lough Derg
Advent
Beyond the Headlines
Consider the Grass Growing
Threshing Morning
October 1943
Peace
A Wreath for Tom Moore’s Statue
Pegasus
Memory of Brother Michael
Bluebells for Love
Temptation in Harvest
Father Mat
In Memory of My Mother
On Raglan Road
1947–55

Jim Larkin
The Wake of the Books
Jungle
No Social Conscience
The Paddiad
Spring Day
Leave Them Alone
Adventure in the Bohemian Jungle
Ante-natal Dream
Bank Holiday
Irish Poets Open Your Eyes
Tale of Two Cities
To Be Dead
Kerr’s Ass
The Defeated
Who Killed James Joyce?
Portrait of the Artist