Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism: Yeats, Joyce, MacDiarmid and Jones

by Gregory Baker

Celtic modernism had a complex history with classical reception. In this book, Gregory Baker examines the work of W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, David Jones and Hugh MacDiarmid to show how new forms of modernist literary expression emerged as the evolution of classical education, the insurgent power of cultural nationalisms and the desire for transformative modes of artistic invention converged across Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Writers on the 'Celtic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108844863
• ISBN13: 9781108844864
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"