The Great Hunger: Patrick Kavanach - Brossura

Kavanagh, Patrick

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ISBN 10: 0241339340 ISBN 13: 9780241339343

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2018

Riassunto

'I have lived in important places, times
When great events were decided . . .'

By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger', some of the key poems by the writer who transformed Anglo-Irish verse.

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L'autore:

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.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

By turns tragic and comic, irascible and exalted, these are some of the most beloved poems by a writer who transformed Irish verse.

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0241339340
• ISBN 13: 9780241339343
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 64