Patrick Kavanagh

Antoinette Quinn's study of Kavanagh combines straightforward evaluation of his work with an informed contextual analysis. The book traces the course of Kavanagh's poetic development, showing his growth from the early derivative pastorals, through the prose autobiographies, the confessional and satiric poems of his middle period, to the "born-again" lyric witness of the late 1950s.
 
Antoinette Quinn's study of Kavanagh combines straightforward evaluation of his work with an informed contextual analysis. The book traces the course of Kavanagh's poetic development, showing his growth from the early derivative pastorals, through the prose autobiographies, the confessional and satiric poems of his middle period, to the "born-again" lyric witness of the late 1950s.