| Contents |
Introduction: avant-gardes, modernisms, and Catholicisms -- The Augustinian imagination of Thomas MacGreevy -- Brian Coffey, Jacques Maritain, and the triumph of neo-Thomism -- Denis Devlin, the modernist as Jansenist. |
| Abstract |
"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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [453]-469) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Wilson, James Matthew. Catholic modernism and the Irish "avant-garde" Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, 2023 9780813237640 |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Critiques littéraires. |
| LCCN | 2023045726 |
| ISBN | 9780813237633 |
| ISBN | 0813237637 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
