Denis Donoghue

Denis Donoghue teaches English, Irish and American literature at New York University. His recent books include Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot (2000) and The American Classics (2005).

In the LRB Archive:

• Is it always my fault?: T.S. Eliot · 25 January 2007

  • T.S. Eliot by Craig Raine

• I hate thee, Djaun Bool: James Clarence Mangan · 17 March 2005

  • James Clarence Mangan: Selected Writings edited by Sean Ryder
  • The Collected Works of James Clarence Mangan: Prose 1832-39 edited by Jacques Chuto, Peter Van der Kamp, Augustine Martin and Ellen Shannon-Mangan
  • The Collected Works of James Clarence Mangan: Prose 1840-82 edited by Jacques Chuto, Peter Van der Kamp, Augustine Martin and Ellen Shannon-Mangan
  • James Clarence Mangan: Poems edited by David Wheatley
  • Selected Poems of James Clarence Mangan edited by Jacques Chuto, Rudolf Holzapfel, Peter Van der Kamp and Ellen Shannon-Mangan

• Untouched by Eliot: Jon Stallworthy · 4 March 1999

  • Rounding the Horn: Collected Poems by Jon Stallworthy

• Provincialism on Karlin’s collection of Victorian verse · 4 June 1998

  • The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse edited by Daniel Karlin

• The Gunman · 27 November 1997

  • The Star Factory by Ciaran Carson

• Leases of Lifelessness · 7 October 1993

  • Beckett’s Dying Words by Christopher Ricks

• On the white strand · 4 April 1991

  • The Selected Writings of Jack B. Yeats edited by Robin Skelton

• What can the matter be? · 5 April 1990

  • Ulster Politics: The Formative Years, 1868-86 by B.M. Walker
  • Ireland 1912-1985: Politics and Society by J.J. Lee

• Denis Donoghue writes about Louis MacNeice, and the thrusting of Shakespeare into touch · 23 April 1987

  • Selected Literary Criticism of Louis MacNeice edited by Alan Heuser

• Gentlemen Travellers · 18 December 1986

  • Between the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor et al
  • Coasting by Jonathan Raban
  • The Grand Tour by Hunter Davies

• Shakers · 6 November 1986

  • Write on: Occasional Essays ’65-’85 by David Lodge

• Was Swift a monster? · 5 June 1986

  • Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed by David Nokes

• Denis Donoghue writes about the Age of Rawson, and Rogers · 6 February 1986

  • Literature and Popular Culture in 18th-Century England by Pat Rogers
  • Eighteenth-Century Encounters: Studies in Literature and Society in the Age of Walpole by Pat Rogers
  • Order from Confusion Sprung: Studies in 18th-Century Literature from Swift to Cowper by Claude Rawson
  • Jonathan Swift edited by Angus Ross and David Woolley

• Ten Poets · 7 November 1985

  • Selected Poems by Donald Davie
  • Collected Poems: 1947-1980 by Allen Ginsberg
  • Instant Chronicles: A Life by D.J. Enright
  • Selected Poems by Edwin Morgan
  • Selected Poems by Jeffrey Wainwright
  • Selected Poems by Gillian Clarke
  • The Price of Stone by Richard Murphy
  • Selected Poems by Iain Crichton Smith
  • Selected Poems by Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • From the Irish by James Simmons

• Keach and Shelley · 19 September 1985

  • Shelley’s Style by William Keach
  • Ariel: A Shelley Romance by André Maurois and Ella D’Arcy

• Raiding Joyce · 18 April 1985

  • James Joyce by Patrick Parrinder
  • James Joyce and Sexuality by Richard Brown
  • Joyce’s Dislocutions: Essays on Reading as Translation by Fritz Senn, edited by John Paul Riquelme
  • Post-Structuralist Joyce: Essays from the French edited by Derek Attridge and Daniel Ferrer

• Just a smack at Grigson · 7 March 1985

  • Montaigne’s Tower, and Other Poems by Geoffrey Grigson
  • Collected Poems: 1963-1980 by Geoffrey Grigson
  • The Faber Book of Reflective Verse edited by Geoffrey Grigson
  • Blessings, Kicks and Curses by Geoffrey Grigson
  • The Private Art: A Poetry Notebook by Geoffrey Grigson
  • Before the Romantics: An Anthology of the Enlightenment by Geoffrey Grigson

• Venisti tandem · 7 February 1985

  • Selected Poems by Tony Harrison
  • Palladas: Poems by Tony Harrison
  • Men and Women by Frederick Seidel
  • Dangerous play: Poems 1974-1984 by Andrew Motion
  • Mister Punch by David Harsent
  • An Umbrella from Piccadilly by Jaroslav Seifert and Ewald Osers

• Plain English · 20 December 1984

  • Nineteen Eighty-Four: Facsimile Edition by George Orwell, edited by Peter Davison
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, edited by Bernard Crick
  • Inside the Myth. Orwell: Views from the Left edited by Christopher Norris
  • The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell by George Woodcock
  • Orwell’s London by John Thompson

• Making sense · 4 October 1984

  • A Wave by John Ashbery
  • Secret Narratives by Andrew Motion
  • Liberty Tree by Tom Paulin
  • 111 Poems by Christopher Middleton
  • New and Selected Poems by James Michie
  • By the Fisheries by Jeremy Reed
  • Voyages by George Mackay Brown

• Denis Donoghue examines the new edition of ‘Ulysses’ · 20 September 1984

  • Ulysses: A Critical and Synoptic Edition by James Joyce, edited by Hans Walter Gabler, Wolfhard Steppe and Claus Melchior
  • James Joyce by Richard Ellmann

• Morgan to his Friends · 2 August 1984

  • Selected Letters of E.M. Forster: Vol. I: 1879-1920 edited by Mary Lago and P.N. Furbank

• Anger and Dismay · 19 July 1984

  • Literary Education: A Revaluation by James Gribble
  • Reconstructing Literature edited by Laurence Lerner
  • Counter-Modernism in Current Critical Theory by Geoffrey Thurley

• Foreigners · 21 June 1984

  • Selected Essays by John Bayley
  • Collected Poems: 1941-1983 by Michael Hamburger
  • Poems: 1953-1983 by Anthony Thwaite

• Examples · 2 February 1984

  • Towards 2000 by Raymond Williams
  • Writing in Society by Raymond Williams
  • Radical Earnestness: English Social Theory 1880-1980 by Fred Inglis

• Golden Boy · 22 December 1983

  • W.H.Auden: The Critical Heritage edited by John Haffenden
  • Auden: A Carnival of Intellect by Edward Callan
  • Drawn from the Life: A Memoir by Robert Medley

• Rembrandt and Synge and Molly · 1 December 1983

  • The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge. Vol. I: 1871-1907 edited by Ann Saddlemyer

• Ireland at Swim · 21 April 1983

  • The Crane Bag Book of Irish Studies, 1977-1981 edited by M.P. Hederman and R. Kearney, by Seamus Heaney
  • A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers by Hugh Kenner

• A University for Protestants · 5 August 1982

  • Trinity College Dublin 1592-1952: An Academic History by R.B. McDowell and D.A. Webb

• Romantic Ireland · 4 February 1982

  • The Collected Stories of Sean O’Faolain: Vols I and II

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