@ Bartleby Editores, 2013
Thomas MacGreevy's poetic output was slight (only one volume of poetry was published during his lifetime), yet its modernist direction showed younger poets such as Samuel Beckett, Brian Coffey and Denis Devlin how to circumnavigate the towering figure of W. B. Yeats. MacGreevy had been inspired in his turn by T. S. Eliot, who took him on as reviewer at The Criterion after the First World War. MacGreevy's poems draw on his life in Ireland and London as well as the events he had witnessed and are characterised by their visual quality. As the critic Susan Schreibman remarks, "he painted words on the page, sometimes like an impressionist, but more often like a cubist, juxtaposing the real and surreal in disturbing and unfamiliar ways."
Collected Poems was published posthumously, first in 1971, edited by Thomas Dillon Redshaw, and later as an annotated edition in 1991, edited by Susan Schreibman.
New Writers Press, The Catholic University of America Press 1971, 1991
Translated into: Spanish
The Estate of Thomas MacGreevy
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