Catholic Modernism and the Irish Avant-Garde: The Achievement of Brian Coffey, Denis Devlin, and Thomas Macgreevy

by James Matthew Wilson

This study constitutes the first-ever definitive account of the life and work of Irish modernist poets Thomas MacGreevy, Brian Coffey, and Denis Devlin. Apprenticed to the likes of W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett, all three writers worked at the center of modernist letters in England, France, and the United States, but did so from a distinctive perspective. All three writers wrote with a deep commitment to the intellectual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813237637
• ISBN13: 9780813237633
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"