Collected Poems, 1956-1994 (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Kinsella
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Language or languages, Love or romance, Art or artists, Writing, Dreams, Death or dying, Ireland or Irish people, Time
Wedged between the two other giants of twentieth century Irish poetry, William Butler Yeats and Seamus Heaney, Thomas Kinsella has always assumed a kind of modest stance as an artist. He does not champion specifically Irish causes in the manner of Yeats, nor does he attempt to speak for the common laborers and tillers of the sod in the fashion of Seamus Heaney. Indeed, much of Kinsella’s career has a distinctly non-Irish profile—and even a nonliterary slant. Oddly enough, Kinsella devoted himself to the study of science when he began his university studies, and ultimately he...
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