Patrick Kavanagh - A Biography - Revised and Expanded Edition

This is the first paperback edition of Antoinette Quinn's acclaimed biography of Patrick Kavanagh, the most important Irish poet between the death of Yeats and the rise of Heaney. Quinn has written a wonderful biography of this complex spirit: deeply researched, full of fascinating detail and entirely readable from beginning to end. For anyone interested in Kavanagh, the development of Irish poetry and the particularities of Irish culture, this book is an absolute must...