The Green Fool (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Patrick Kavanagh
- First Published: 1938
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1904-1936
- Setting: Rural Ireland, Dublin, and London
- Principal Characters: Patrick Kavanagh, James Kavanagh, Bridget Kavanagh, Peter Kavanagh, Pat the Hack, MacParland, Johnnie of the Parables, AE
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Memory, Tradition, Self, Rural or country life, Manners or customs, Poetry or poets, Social life, Writing, Storytelling, City life
Form and Content
The Green Fool is an autobiographical work written soon after the publication of Patrick Kavanagh’s first volume of poetry, Ploughman and Other Poems (1936). Following the critical success of that volume, Kavanagh traveled from the isolated farm where he had lived for more than thirty years to London in the hope of finding a place in the literary world; since a self-taught farmer-poet was a curious figure, a publisher’s editor suggested that he write his autobiography. Having already tried to survive for a short time by writing journalism,...
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