Word: kavanagh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Patrick Kavanagh, 62, Irish poet; of pneumonia; in Dublin. Better known for his acid tongue than for his lyric poetry, Kavanagh found modern poetry "pretentious," Emerson "a sugary humbug," Yeats "You can have him." Yet Ireland knew him as one of its strongest talents for such works as "The Great Hunger...
...When Drake was winning seas for England," in Poet Patrick Kavanagh's rueful lines, "We sailed in puddles of the past." For the most part, Ireland's postliberation politicians and intellectuals seemed determined to ignore the seas for the puddles. For years they kept up the strident outcry over partition and winked at endless, squalid raids on the Ulster border. Ireland, after all, was a divided country for decades before such latecomers to partition as Germany, Korea and Viet...