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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).

Selected bibliography

  • American Classics: A Personal Essay (2005)
  • Speaking of Beauty (2003)
  • Adam’s Curse: Reflections on Religion and Literature (2001)
  • Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot (2001)
  • Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls (1998)
  • The Practice of Reading (1998)
  • The Old Moderns: Essays on Literature and Theory (1994)
  • Warrenpoint (1990)
  • We Irish: Selected Essays (1986)
  • The Arts without Mystery (1983)
  • Thieves of Fire (1974)
  • Jonathan Swift: A Critical Anthology edited by Denis Donoghue (1971)
  • Emily Dickinson (1970)
  • The Ordinary Universe: Soundings in Modern Literature (1968)

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

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 not available in archive Untouched by Eliot · 4 March 1999

  • Rounding the Horn: Collected Poems by Jon Stallworthy

 not available in archive Provinialism · 4 June 1998