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‘The Later Poetry and its Critical Reception’, in Stan Smith, ed., Patrick Kavanagh: A Revaluation

John Goodby

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Swansea University Author: John Goodby

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Explores Kavanagh's later poetry in terms of its dynamic of continuously repudiating its earlier phases. Defines the critical responses broadly as that represented by Edna Longley (Kavanagh as beneficial mediator of the poisoned chalice of Irishness and modernism to successors such as Kennelly,...

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Published: Dublin / Portland Irish Academic Press 2009
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