Writer, poet, lecturer, broadcaster and man-of -letters, John
Jordan (1930-88) was a distinguished scholar-critic in the Dublin
of his day, teaching English at University College Dublin (1955-66)
and at the Memorial University of Newfoundland at St John's
(1966-7). A true cosmopolitan, and formidably read, his interests
ranged from drama to literature in all its forms. This gathering of
prose essays and reviews are taken from the columns of the Irish
Press, Hibernia, The Crane Bag and Irish University Review and
Poetry Ireland (a magazine he refounded in 1962), as well as from
private unpublished papers. They focus on the mid-century canon of
Irish and Anglo-American writing: Joyce, Yeats, Lawrence, Eliot,
Kavanagh, O'Casey, Behan, Clarke, Stuart, Bowen, Gregory, Synge,
Shaw and Wilde, as well as on the new voices of a succeeding
generation: Kinsella, Cronin, Hutchinson, Heaney, and Durcan. With
occasional literary detours to Russia, France and Spain, Jordan
brings a continental sensibility to bear on his literary milieu.
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