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Catholic Modernism and the Irish ""Avant-Garde - The Achievement of Brian Coffey, Denis Devlin, and Thomas MacGreevy
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Catholic Modernism and the Irish ""Avant-Garde - The Achievement of Brian Coffey, Denis Devlin, and Thomas MacGreevy
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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. MacGreevy spent his life trying to
voice the Augustinian vision he found in The City of God. Coffey, a
student of neo-Thomist philosopher Jacques Maritain, married
scholastic thought and a densely wrought poetics to give form and
solution to the alienation of modern life. Devlin contemplated the
world with the eyes of Montaigne and the heart of Pascal as he
searched for a poetry that could realize the divine presence in the
experience of the modern person. Taken together, MacGreevy, Coffey,
and Devlin exemplify the modern Catholic intellectual seeking to
engage the modern world on its own terms while drawing the age
toward fulfillment within the mystery and splendor of the Church.
They stand apart from their Irish contemporaries for their
religious seriousness and cosmopolitan openness of European
modernism. They lay bare the theological potencies of modern art
and do so with a sophistication and insight distinctive to
themselves. Although MacGreevy, Coffey, and Devlin have received
considerable critical attention in the past, this is the first book
to study their work comprehensively, from MacGreevy's early poems
and essays on Joyce and Eliot to Coffey's essays in the
neo-scholastic philosophy of science, and on to Devlin's late
poetic attempts to realize Dante's divine vision in a Europe
shattered by war and modern doubt.
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Imprint: |
The Catholic University of America Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Authors: |
James Matthew Wilson
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
488 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8132-3763-3 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-8132-3763-7 |
Barcode: |
9780813237633 |
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