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

"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 life of Catholicism and saw the new movement in the arts as making possible for the first time a rich sacramental expression of the divine beauty in aesthetic form"--

Author: James Matthew Wilson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: 09/12/2023
Pages: 488
Weight: 1.66lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.12w x 1.18d
ISBN: 9780813237633