20th Century Green Fool

by Patrick Kavanagh

Book Overview

My part of Ireland had a poet at one time, a poor ragged fellow whom no respectable person whom no respectable person would be seen talking to, but he left doors open as he passed. A delightful... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140181156
• ISBN13: 9780140181159
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: Penguin Classic
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.6" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

My great good luck...

...was to pick this book up at the Dublin airport on my way home to Atlanta. It is charming and, no surprise since Mr Kavanagh is a poet, very poetic. My favourite quote, which should give you the flavour of the book is: "But though the coin of joy isn't legal tender in the mundane shops of the world, it is in the lands of Imagination, and I to-day, jingling my purse of memory, know I am richer than Rockefeller or Henry Ford or the Rothschilds ever were."This book gives you a feel for the harsh realities and magic of living in Ireland in the first half of the 20th Century. I highly recommend it.

Patrick's Ashes

Patrick Kavanagh's autobiography of life in rural Ireland differs in many ways from McCourt's ubiquitous Angela's Ashes offering. In my opinion, it is far superior on every level - humour, pathos, wisdom, language, love...Being from Ireland, this book speaks volumes in its meagre 250 pages. The final paragraph reads... "I returned to Ireland. Ireland green and chaste and foolish. And when I wandered over my own hills and talked again to my own people I lookde into the heart of this life and I saw that it was good".Beautiful stuff... Seek this treasure out.