Catholic modernism and the Irish "avant-garde" : the achievement of Brian Coffey, Denis Devlin, and Thomas MacGreevy / James Matthew Wilson.

Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2023]

ix, 485 pages ; 23 cm

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Online version: Wilson, James Matthew. Catholic modernism and the Irish "avant-garde" Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, 2023

English

May 07, 2024

Includes bibliographical references (pages [453]-469) and index.