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- Title: Thomas Kinsella's 'Downstream' Revisions (Critical Essay)
- Author : Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 353 KB
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In 1971, Thomas Dillon Redshaw published a magisterial account of Thomas Kinsella's poem-sequence Wormwood and the changes it underwent between its first Irish publication in 1966 and its inclusion in the American edition of Nightwalker and Other Poems (1968). (1) Redshaw's commentary is informed by a conviction that the 'experimental interlude' of Wormwood 'may [...] well indicate the sources' of what in 1971 was still an 'adventurous development'; that even minor and relatively unsuccessful poems might be read closely for their insights into the shape of a poet's career. (2) This essay, though somewhat narrower in scope than Redshaw's exhaustive treatment, shares his conviction about the value of noting even small variations and revisions. Although the original version of 'Downstream' belongs to a period before Kinsella's experiments with open form and consciously modernist aesthetics, it is a poem which, even if only because of the poet's repeated revisiting of it, has a claim on the attention of any student of modern Irish poetry. Since Redshaw wrote his article, Kinsella has emerged as a 'fanatic tinkerer' (3) who has developed a method of draft publication--the Peppercanister pamphlets--which precedes the compilation of his poetry into revised trade editions. (4) Kinsella's work rarely settles into final forms. The poet typically presents himself in interview and in his poems as a fastidious reviser, 'abolishing' frivolous and ornamental effects:
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