Английская Википедия:Brendan Kennelly
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Timothy Brendan Kennelly (17 April 1936 – 17 October 2021), usually known as Brendan Kennelly, was an Irish poet and novelist.[1][2] He was Professor of Modern Literature at Trinity College Dublin until 2005. Following his retirement he was a Professor Emeritus at Trinity College.
Early life
Kennelly was born in Ballylongford, County Kerry, on 17 April 1936.[3] He was one of eight children of Tim Kennelly and Bridie (Ahern). His father worked as a publican and garage proprietor; his mother was a nurse.[2] Kennelly was educated at the inter-denominational St. Ita's College, Tarbert, County Kerry. He was then awarded a scholarship to study English and French at Trinity College Dublin. There he was editor of Icarus and captained the Trinity Gaelic Football Club. He graduated from Trinity in 1961 with first-class honours, before obtaining a Doctor of Philosophy there in 1967.[4] He also studied at Leeds University for one year under the tutelage of Norman Jeffares.[2][5] He became a fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 1967, and a senior fellow in 1989.[6]
Poetry
Kennelly's poetry can be scabrous, down-to-earth, and colloquial. He avoided intellectual pretension and literary posturing, and his attitude to poetic language could be summed up in the title of one of his epic poems, "Poetry my Arse".[5] Another long (400-page) epic poem, "The Book of Judas", published in 1991, topped the Irish best-seller list.[7]
A prolific and fluent writer, there are more than fifty volumes of poetry to his credit, including My Dark Fathers (1964),[5] Collection One: Getting Up Early (1966),[8] Good Souls to Survive (1967), Dream of a Black Fox (1968), Love Cry (1972), The Voices (1973), Shelley in Dublin (1974),[5] A Kind of Trust (1975), Islandman (1977),[9] A Small Light (1979),[10] and The House That Jack Didn't Build (1982).[5]
Kennelly edited several other anthologies, including "Between Innocence and Peace: Favourite Poems of Ireland" (1993), "Ireland's Women: Writings Past and Present, with Katie Donovan and A. Norman Jeffares" (1994),[11] and "Dublines," with Katie Donovan (1995). He also authored two novels, "The Crooked Cross" (1963) and "The Florentines" (1967),[5] and three plays in a Greek Trilogy, Antigone, Medea, and The Trojan Women.[12]
Kennelly was an Irish language (Gaelic) speaker,[13] and translated Irish poems in "A Drinking Cup" (1970) and "Mary" (Dublin 1987).[14][15] A selection of his collected translations was published as "Love of Ireland: Poems from the Irish" (1989).[16]
Style
Language was important in Kennelly's work – in particular the vernacular of the small and isolated communities in North Kerry where he grew up, and of the Dublin streets and pubs where he became both roamer and raconteur for many years.[17] His language is also grounded in the Irish-language poetic tradition, oral and written, which can be both satirical and salacious in its approach to human follies.[5][12]
Regarding the oral tradition, Kennelly was a great reciter of verse with tremendous command and the rare ability to recall extended poems by memory, both his own work and others, and recite them on call verbatim.[18] He commented on his own use of language: "Poetry is an attempt to cut through the effects of deadening familiarity … to reveal that inner sparkle."[17]
Personal life
Kennelly married Margaret (Peggy) O'Brien in 1969.[2] They were colleagues at the time,[2] and she taught at English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst at the time of his death.[19] Together, they had one child, Kristen “Doodle” Kennelly. They resided in Sandymount before getting divorced, which Kennelly attributed to his overindulgence in alcohol. He ultimately became teetotal in about 1985.[2] Doodle died in April 2021, six months before her father.[20]
Kennelly died on 17 October 2021, at a care home in Listowel, where he resided in the two years leading up to his death. He was 85 years old.[21][22]
Awards and honours
- 1967 Æ Memorial Prize[7]
- 1988 Critics Special Harvey's Award[23]
- 1996 IMPAC International Dublin Literary Award[7]
- 1999 American Ireland Fund Literary Award[7]
- 2003 The Ireland Funds of France Wild Geese Award[24]
- 2010 Irish PEN Award[25]
List of works
- Cast a Cold Eye (1959) with Rudi Holzapfel[26]
- The Rain, the Moon (1961) with Rudi Holzapfel[27]
- The Dark About Our Loves (1962) Rudi Holzapfel[28]
- Green Townlands (1963) Rudi Holzapfel[29]
- Let Fall No Burning Leaf (1963)[30]
- The Crooked Cross (1963) novel; Шаблон:ISBN
- My Dark Fathers (1964)[31]
- Up and at It (1965)[32]
- Collection One: Getting Up Early (1966)[8]
- Good Souls to Survive (1967)[33]
- The Florentines (1967) novel[34]
- Dream of a Black Fox (1968) Шаблон:ISBN
- Selected Poems (1969)[35]
- A Drinking Cup, Poems from the Irish (1970) Шаблон:ISBN
- The Penguin Book of Irish Verse (1970, 1981) editor[36][37]
- Bread (1971) Шаблон:ISBN
- Love Cry (1972) Шаблон:ISBN
- Salvation, The Stranger (1972) Шаблон:ISBN
- The Voices (1973) Шаблон:ISBN
- Shelley in Dublin (1974)[38]
- A Kind of Trust (1975) Шаблон:ISBN
- New and Selected Poems (1976) Шаблон:ISBN
- The Boats Are Home (Gallery Press, 1980) Шаблон:ISBN
- Moloney Up and at It (Mercier Press, 1984) Шаблон:ISBN
- Cromwell (Beaver Row Press, 1983; Bloodaxe Books, 1987) Шаблон:ISBN
- Mary, from the Irish of Muireadach Albanach Ó Dálaigh (Aisling Press, 1987)[15]
- Landmarks of Irish Drama (Methuen, 1988) Шаблон:ISBN
- Love of Ireland: Poems from the Irish (Mercier Press, 1989) [anthology] Шаблон:ISBN
- A Time for Voices: Selected Poems 1960–1990 (Bloodaxe Books, 1990) Шаблон:ISBN
- Euripides' Medea (Bloodaxe Books, 1991) Шаблон:ISBN
- The Book of Judas (Bloodaxe Books, 1991) Шаблон:ISBN
- Breathing Spaces: Early Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 1992) Шаблон:ISBN
- Euripides' The Trojan Women (Bloodaxe Books, 1993) Шаблон:ISBN
- Journey into Joy: Selected Prose, ed. Åke Persson (Bloodaxe Books, 1994) Шаблон:ISBN
- Between Innocence and Peace: Favourite Poems of Ireland (Mercier Press, 1994) [anthology] Шаблон:ISBN
- Poetry My Arse (Bloodaxe Books, 1995) Шаблон:ISBN
- Dublines, with Katie Donovan (Bloodaxe Books, 1996) [anthology] Шаблон:ISBN
- Sophocles' Antigone: a new version (Bloodaxe Books, 1996) Шаблон:ISBN
- Lorca: Blood Wedding (Bloodaxe Books, 1996) Шаблон:ISBN
- The Man Made of Rain (Bloodaxe Books, 1998) Шаблон:ISBN
- The Singing Tree (Abbey Press, 1998) Шаблон:ISBN
- Begin (Bloodaxe Books, 1999) Шаблон:ISBN
- Glimpses (Bloodaxe Books, 2001) Шаблон:ISBN
- The Little Book of Judas (Bloodaxe Books, 2002) Шаблон:ISBN
- Martial Art (Bloodaxe Books, 2003) Шаблон:ISBN [versions of Martial]
- Familiar Strangers: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2004) Шаблон:ISBN
- Now (Bloodaxe Books, 2006) Шаблон:ISBN
- When Then Is Now: Three Greek Tragedies (Bloodaxe Books, 2006) Шаблон:ISBN [versions of Sophocles' Antigone and Euripides' Medea and The Trojan Women]
- Reservoir Voices (Bloodaxe Books, 2009) Шаблон:ISBN
- The Essential Brendan Kennelly: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, UK & Ireland, 2011, Wake Forest University Press, USA, 2011) Шаблон:ISBN
- Guff (Bloodaxe Books, 2013) Шаблон:ISBN
References
External links
- Bloodaxe Books (Publisher of Kennelly's work in the UK and Ireland)
- Wake Forest University Press (US publisher)
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