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- Publisher
- Center for Irish Studies at the University of St. Thomas
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2004 The University of St. Thomas.
- ISSN
- 1534-5815
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Abstract
Léirmheasanna: Reviews Ireland might someday be read as a prelude to Connelly's second book about Graceville, a seamless historical novel. SHAWN GILLEN No Earthly Estate: God and Patrick Kavanagh by Tom Stack, pp 179. Dublin: Columba Press, 2002. Distributed by Dufour Editions, Chester Springs PA. $30.95. Tom Stack's No Earthly Estate: God and Patrick Kavanagh, a new edition of Patrick Kavanagh's religious poetry, is both anthology and biography, a volume of poetry and a scholarly project. Stack's familiarity with Kavanagh's poetry and person informs the volume; his long introductions provide thematic analyses of several long poems and the work as a whole, and they place Kavanagh within a religious tradition that he ultimately challenges. The book divides into two main sections, the first containing the shorter religious poems and the second the two long poems The Great Hunger and "Lough Derg" as well as a poem called "Father Mat," distilled from a longer, earlier poem, "Why Sorrow." Each section demonstrates in its own way the distinctive features of the poet Kavanagh, which Stack claims rightly is inseparable from the religious poetry. In the short poems, nature is alive with incarnation, and religion's tenets often serve the truth of
Journal
New Hibernia Review – Center for Irish Studies at the University of St. Thomas
Published: Mar 18, 2003