The Life and Work of Thomas MacGreevy A Critical Reappraisal [Hardcover]

As a poet and literary critic, Thomas MacGreevy is a central force in Irish modernism and a crucial facilitator in the lives of key modernist writers and artists. The extent of his legacy and contribution to modernism is revealed for the first time inThe Life and Work of Thomas MacGreevy. Split into four sections, the volume explains how and where MacGreevy made his impact: in his poetry; his role as a literary and art critic; during his time in Dublin, London and Paris and through his relationships with James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Wallace Stevens, Jack B Yeats and WB Yeats. With access to theThomas MacGreevy Archive, contributors draw on letters, his early poetry, and contributions to art and literary journals, to better understand the first champion of Jack B. Yeats, and
Beckett's chief correspondent and closest friend in the 1930s. This much-needed reappraisal of MacGreevy, the linchpin between the main modernist writers, fills missing gaps, not only in the story of Irish modernism, but in the wider history of the movement.

Introduction, Susan Schreibman \Part I: MacGreevy as a Poet\ 1. Thomas MacGreevy's War Poems: Nocturnes, Gerald Dawe \ 2. MacGreevy's poetry in relation to perception in literary and visual arts: it is the act and not the object of perception that matters , Mark Leahy \ 3. MacGreevy, Modernist Pathos, and the Poetics of Allusion: 'Quadrupedante, etcetera, Alex Davis \Part II: MacGreevy as a Critic\ 4. Thomas MacGreevy, Art Critic and Art Historia: 'It is only by learning to fully understand the past that we can most easily come to realise the significance of the present', Riann Coulter \ 5. The Critical Voice of Thomas MacGreevy, A Matrix of Correspondences: Benjamin Keatinge \ 6. The Augustinian Imagination of Thomas MacGreevy, James Mathew Wilson \ 7. A director of his time: Thomas MacGreevy: Marie Burke \ 8. Thomas MacGreevy and the Geography of Criticism, Nicholas Allen \Part III: Cities of MacGrel35