| Broken Line: Denis Devlin and Irish Poetic Modernism: Denis Devlin and Irish Poetic Modernism Contributor(s): Davis, Alex (Author) |
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ISBN: 1900621363 ISBN-13: 9781900621366 Publisher: University College Dublin Press
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: January 2019 Annotation: Dennis Devlin's (1908-1959) poems have been championed by such Irish admirers as Brian Coffey, Beckett, Kinsella, and Montague, and by such American authors as Tate and Robert Penn Warren. This first-ever appraisal of Devlin's work, examines the poetry in the context of literary modernism and the poet's own successful career as a diplomat for the Free State and the Republic of Ireland. Setting the poetry within the wider frame of the modernism of Yeats and the Irish Literary Revival, Davis compares it with that of his contemporaries. The surrealist-inspired early poetry is viewed in the light of the high modernism of Eliot and in relation to the European avant-garde, while the poems of the mid-to late period are read in relation to the American New Criticism. Davis discusses the sexual politics of Devlin's renowned love poetry and addresses the historical and biographical subtexts of his major religious poems. The book concludes with the first substantial critical readings of a number of poets associated with the Dublin-based New Writers' Press and a look at contemporary linguistically innovative poetry in Ireland. |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.912 |
| LCCN: 00363343 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.3" W x 9.5" L (1.00 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Ireland - Ethnic Orientation - Irish |
| Review Citations: Choice 02/01/2001 pg. 1080 Entertainment Weekly 12/14/2007 pg. 70 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is a study of one of the most important poets of the mid 20th-century. At the time of his death, Denis Devlin was Irish ambassador to Italy. This book looks at Devlin's work within the aftermath of the Irish literary revival and Anglo-American and French modernism and then relates it to the work of Devlin's contemporaries (such as Thomas McGreevy, Brian Coffey and Samuel Beckett) and to modernism poets since his death. |
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