A Country Walk (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Kinsella
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Dramatic monologue
- Genres: Poetry, Dramatic monologue
- Subjects: History, Nature, Rural or country life, Ireland or Irish people, Walking
The Poem
“A Country Walk” is representative of Thomas Kinsella’s middle period in a number of important respects. Together with the title poem of the collection in which it occurs, its tensions, themes, and restless movement anticipate numerous tendencies in his later verse. At the same time, it marks a transition from the predominant, though not exclusive, use of lyric, which characterized the collection that is Downstream’s important predecessor, Another September (1958).
This sense of transition is not merely indicative of the development of...
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