"Seven Birds."

Creator

Patrick Kavanagh

Title

"Seven Birds."

Subject

Autograph manuscript draft

Description

This poem was eventually printed as “Four Birds” in Kavanagh’s inaugural book of verse, The Ploughman and Other Poems, 1936, which established him as a genuine voice of rural life in Ireland. Seamus Heaney would cite Kavanagh as an early and masterful influence.

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