Visit our new beta site!

Thomas MacGreevy reads T.S. Eliot and Jack B. Yeats: making modernism Catholic.(Critical essay)

From: Yeats Eliot Review  |  Date: 9/22/2006  |  Author: Wilson, James Matthew

In the nineteen-thirties, Irish poet and critic Thomas MacGreevy elaborated a project of interpreting and promoting artistic and literary modernism as complementary to a Catholic worldview. He published a handful of slim volumes, including one collection of poems and two particularly important studies of T.S. Eliot and Jack B. Yeats, which set forth an aesthetic program arguing that the great American poet and Irish painter were each, in some sense, expressive of a sensibility that ...

Browse by alphabet: