A broken line
Subtitle: Denis Devlin and Irish poetic modernism
By: Alex Davis.
Publisher: University College Dublin Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Devlin, Denis, 1908-1959 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Modernism (Literature) -- Ireland.; Ireland -- In literature.
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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.