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Thomas MacGreevy reads T.S. Eliot and Jack B. Yeats: making modernism Catholic.(Critical essay)
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Yeats Eliot Review
- Article date:
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September 22, 2006
- Author:
- Wilson, James Matthew
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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 found its full realization only within the Catholic Church. A decade ago, critics Terence Brown and Tim Armstrong suggested that MacGreevy was engaged in an explicit project to Catholicize modernism, ...