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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, James Matthew, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature)--Ireland.

Modernism (Literature).

English poetry--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Ireland--Intellectual life--20th century.

Ireland.

Catholic Church--In literature.

Catholic Church.

Coffey, Brian, 1905-1995--Criticism and interpretation.

Coffey, Brian.

Devlin, Denis, 1908-1959--Criticism and interpretation.

Devlin, Denis.

MacGreevy, Thomas, 1893-1967--Criticism and interpretation.

MacGreevy, Thomas.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (496 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : The Catholic University of America Press, [2023]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

I. Introduction: Avant-Gardes, Modernisms, and Catholicisms

II. The Augustinian Imagination of Thomas MacGreevy

III. Brian Coffey, Jacques Maritain, and the Triumph of Neo-Thomism

IV. Denis Devlin, The Modernist as Jansenist

V. Conclusion

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8132-3764-5