Denis Donoghue

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

From the Review

October 19, 2006: Coming in from the Cold

The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History by Jonathan Franzen

March 23, 2006: A Version of Pastoral

All Will Be Well: A Memoir by John McGahern

October 24, 2002: Brotherhood without Fatherhood

Why I Am a Catholic by Garry Wills

February 22, 2001: The World Seen and Half-Seen

The Hill Bachelors by William Trevor

Death in Summer (1998) by William Trevor

After Rain (1996) by William Trevor

Excursions in the Real World (1994) by William Trevor

Nights at the Alexandra (1987) by William Trevor

Fools of Fortune (1983) by William Trevor

Two Lives (1991) by William Trevor

The Collected Stories (1993) by William Trevor

Felicia's Journey (1994) by William Trevor

May 11, 2000: The Fabulous Yeats Boys

Jack Yeats by Bruce Arnold

The Life of W.B. Yeats by Terence Brown

Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Life of W.B. Yeats by Brenda Maddox

November 18, 1999: Lives of a Poet

Crux: The Letters of James Dickey edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, by Judith S. Baughman

James Dickey: The Selected Poems edited with an introduction by Robert Kirschten

The James Dickey Reader edited by Henry Hart

October 21, 1999: Frost: The Icon and the Man

Robert Frost: A Life by Jay Parini

Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin by Robert Faggen

May 20, 1999: Lover of Lost Causes

Canaan by Geoffrey Hill

The Triumph of Love by Geoffrey Hill

February 19, 1998: The Myth of W.B. Yeats

W.B. Yeats: A Life Volume I: The Apprentice Mage, by R.F. Foster

The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats Volume II: 1896-1900, edited by Warwick Gould, by John Kelly, by Deirdre Toomey

November 28, 1996: The Supreme Fiction

Soul Says: On Recent Poetry by Helen Vendler

The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham by Helen Vendler

The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition by Helen Vendler

October 31, 1996: A Terrible State of Nerves (letter)

July 11, 1996: Sassoon's War (letter)

April 4, 1996: The Myths of Robert Graves

Robert Graves and the White Goddess, 1940–1985 by Richard Perceval Graves

Robert Graves: Life on the Edge by Miranda Seymour

Robert Graves: His Life and Work revised and extended edition., by Martin Seymour-Smith

March 21, 1996: The Philosopher of Selfless Love

Emmanuel Levinas by Marie-Anne Lescourret

In the Time of the Nations by Emmanuel Levinas, translated by Michael B. Smith

Outside the Subject by Emmanuel Levinas, translated by Michael B. Smith

Beyond the Verse: Talmudic Readings and Lectures by Emmanuel Levinas, translated by Gary D. Mole

June 8, 1995: Kicking the Air

How Late it Was, How Late by James Kelman

The Dead School by Patrick McCabe

Walking the Dog and Other Stories by Bernard MacLaverty

May 11, 1995: Praising Yeats (letter)

May 26, 1994: The Delirium of the Brave

In a time of Violence by Eavan Boland

May 12, 1994: Making a Man of Joyce (letter)

April 21, 1994: The Magic of W.B. Yeats

Yeats's 'Vision' Papers, Volume 1: The Automatic Script: 5 November 1917–18 June 1918 General editor: George Mills Harper, edited by Steve L. Adams, by Barbara J. Frieling, by Sandra L. Sprayberry

Yeats's 'Vision' Papers, Volume 2: The Automatic Script: 25 June 1918–29 March 1920 General editor: George Mills Harper, edited by Steve L. Adams, by Barbara J. Frieling, by Sandra L. Sprayberry

Yeats's 'Vision' Papers, Volume 3: Sleep and Dream Notebooks, 'Vision' Notebooks 1 and 2, Card File General editor: George Mills Harper, edited by Robert Anthony Martinich, by Margaret Mills Harper

The Gonne-Yeats Letters 1893–1938 edited by Anna MacBride White, by A. Norman Jeffares

Running to Paradise: Yeats's Poetic Art by M.L. Rosenthal

Yeats and Artistic Power by Phillip L. Marcus

February 3, 1994: Another Country

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle

The Commitments by Roddy Doyle

The Snapper by Roddy Doyle

The Van by Roddy Doyle

October 21, 1993: Joyce's Many Lives

James Joyce: The Years of Growth 1882–1915 by Peter Costello

James Joyce: A Literary Life by Morris Beja

James Joyce's Chamber Music: The Lost Song Settings edited and with an introduction by Myra Teicher Russel

James Joyce's Chamber Music: Musical Settings by G. Molyneux Palmer sung by Robert White, accompanied by Samuel Sanders

Picking Up Airs: Hearing the Music in Joyce's Text edited by Ruth H. Bauerle

Dubliners by James Joyce, edited by Hans Walter Gabler, by Walter Hettche

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, edited by Hans Walter Gabler, by Walter Hettche

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, edited by R. B. Kershner

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, edited by Seamus Deane

Ulysses by James Joyce, edited by Jeri Johnson

Reflections on James Joyce: Stuart Gilbert's Paris Journal edited by Thomas F. Staley, by Randolph Lewis

September 23, 1993: The Heroism of Despair

Selected Letters by Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels

Authority and Alliance in the Letters of Henry Adams by Joanne Jacobson

The Correspondence of Henry James and Henry Adams 1877–1914 edited by George Monteiro

Refinements of Love: A Novel about Clover and Henry Adams by Sarah Booth Conroy

June 24, 1993: Dream Work

All the Pretty Horses: Vol. 1, The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy

March 25, 1993: Bewitched, Bothered, & Bewildered

Illustration by J. Hillis Miller

Ariadne's Thread: Story Lines by J. Hillis Miller

The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy by Frederick Crews

Double Agent: The Critic and Society by Morris Dickstein

Thinking Across the American Grain: Ideology, Intellect, and the New Pragmatism by Giles Gunn

November 5, 1992: Book of Books Books

The World of Biblical Literature by Robert Alter

Reading the Book: Making the Bible a Timeless Text by Burton L. Visotzky

The Voice of Jacob: On the Composition of Genesis by Leslie Brisman

The Changes of Cain: Violence and the Lost Brother in Cain and Abel Literature by Ricardo J. Quinones

April 9, 1992: Mister Myth

Words With Power: Being a Second Study of 'The Bible and Literature' by Northrop Frye

The Double Vision: Language and Meaning in Religion by Northrop Frye

Reading the World: Selected Writings, 1935–1976 by Northrop Frye, edited by Robert D. Denham

Myth and Metaphor: Selected Essays, 1974–1988 by Northrop Frye, edited by Robert D. Denham

October 10, 1991: That Old Middle Style (letter)

August 15, 1991: Critics at the Top

Selected Writings 1950-1990 by Irving Howe

Minor Prophecies: The Literary Essay in the Culture Wars by Geoffrey H. Hartman

The Uses of Error by Frank Kermode

Versions of Pygmalion by J. Hillis Miller

July 18, 1991: The Flight of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Very Private Life by Robert Bernard Martin

February 14, 1991: The Poet of Modern Life

Baudelaire by Claude Pichois, translated by Graham Robb

The Parisian Prowler: Le Spleen de Paris, Petits Poèmes en prose by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Edward K. Kaplan

Baudelaire: Collected Essays, 1953–1988 by F.W. Leakey, edited by Eva Jacobs

October 12, 1989: Deconstruction, the Nazis, & Paul De Man (letter)

September 28, 1989: The Higher Criticism (letter)

September 28, 1989: Haggling Presences

For Every Sin by Aharon Appelfeld, Translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green

The Immortal Bartfuss by Aharon Appelfeld, Translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green

Five Seasons by A.B. Yehoshua, Translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin

His Daughter by Yoram Kaniuk, Translated from the Hebrew by Seymour Simckes

See Under: Love by David Grossman, Translated from the Hebrew by Betsy Rosenberg

June 29, 1989: The Strange Case of Paul de Man

Wartime Journalism: 1939–1943 by Paul de Man, edited by Werner Hamacher, by Neil Hertz, by Thomas Keenan

Responses: On Paul de Man's Wartime Journalism edited by Werner Hamacher, edited by Neil Hertz, edited by Thomas Keenan

Critical Writings: 1953–1978 by Paul de Man, edited and with an introduction by Lindsay Waters

Reading de Man Reading edited by Lindsay Waters, edited by Wlad Godzich

March 30, 1989: The Revel's Ended

Any Old Iron by Anthony Burgess

March 2, 1989: The Sad Captain of Criticism

Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present by Harold Bloom

December 22, 1988: The Poet in Limbo

Conrad Aiken: Poet of White Horse Vale by Edward Butscher

December 8, 1988: Play It Again, Sam

Waiting for Godot a play by Samuel Beckett, directed by Mike Nichols

November 24, 1988: Judging Pound (letter)

November 10, 1988: The Suburban Prejudice (letter)

June 2, 1988: Pound's Book of Beasts

Pound as Wuz: Essays and Lectures on Ezra Pound by James Laughlin

The Genealogy of Demons: Anti-Semitism, Fascism, and the Myths of Ezra Pound by Robert Casillo

Stone Cottage: Pound, Yeats, and Modernism by James Longenbach

Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano by John Tytell

May 12, 1988: 'Vain Fortune' (letter)

April 28, 1988: The Journey Westward (letter)

March 3, 1988: Huston's Joyce

The Dead a film directed by John Huston, based on the story by James Joyce

September 24, 1987: New Oxford Irish (letter)

June 25, 1987: Whose Trope Is It Anyway?

The Renewal of Literature: Emersonian Reflections by Richard Poirier

February 26, 1987: The Luck of the Irish

The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse edited by Thomas Kinsella

The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry edited by Paul Muldoon

December 4, 1986: She's Got Rhythm

The Complete Prose of Marianne Moore edited and with an introduction by Patricia C. Willis

August 14, 1986: The Young Yeats

The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats Vol. I, 1865–1895 edited by John Kelly

June 26, 1986: A Hero of Our Own Times

A Man of Letters: Selected Essays by V.S. Pritchett

September 26, 1985: American Sage

Attitudes Toward History third edition, with a new afterword by the author Kenneth Burke

Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose third edition, with a new afterword by the author Kenneth Burke

July 19, 1984: The Return of the Native

An American Procession by Alfred Kazin

December 8, 1983: A Guide to the Revolution

Literary Theory: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton

October 21, 1982: Wonder Woman

A Bloodsmoor Romance by Joyce Carol Oates

April 29, 1982: Bright and Silly

The Enemy: A Biography of Wyndham Lewis by Jeffrey Meyers

Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist by Fredric Jameson

January 21, 1982: Hunger Strikers (letter)

November 19, 1981: The Real McCoy

Essays on Realism by Georg Lukács, edited by Rodney Livingstone, translated by David Fernbach

The Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley by George Levine

October 22, 1981: The Hunger Strikers

May 28, 1981: Network (letter)

May 14, 1981: Hide and Seek

The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (The 1893 Text) by Walter Pater, edited by Donald L. Hill

Walter Pater's Art of Autobiography by Gerald Monsman

February 19, 1981: Secret Sharer

Ways of Escape by Graham Greene

December 4, 1980: Deconstruction: An Exchange

November 20, 1980: You Better Believe It

The Middle Ground by Margaret Drabble

Setting the World on Fire by Angus Wilson

August 14, 1980: New York Poets

The Burning Mystery of Anna in 1951 by Kenneth Koch

The Morning of the Poem by James Schuyler

Sunrise by Frederick Seidel

Trader by Robert Mazzocco

June 12, 1980: Deconstructing Deconstruction

Deconstruction and Criticism by Harold Bloom, by Paul de Man, by Jacques Derrida, by Geoffrey H. Hartman, by J. Hillis Miller

Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust by Paul de Man

April 3, 1980: Reading in Circles (letter)

January 24, 1980: Sign Language

As We Know by John Ashbery

September 27, 1979: The Heart in Hiding

Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Biography by Paddy Kitchen

June 14, 1979: The Stains of Ireland

The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan

February 22, 1979: From the Country of the Blue

The Poems of George Meredith edited by Phyllis B. Bartlett

June 1, 1978: Five Hundred Years of the King's English

The Oxford University Press and the Spread of Learning: An Illustrated History by Nicolas Barker

A History of the Oxford University Press Volume I: To the Year 1780 by Harry Carter

The Oxford University Press: An Informal History by Peter Sutcliffe

Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary by K.M. Elisabeth Murray

The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800 by Lucien Febvre, by Henri-Jean Martin, translated by David Gerard

December 8, 1977: Only Disconnect

Daniel Martin by John Fowles

The Sun and the Moon by Niccolò Tucci

September 15, 1977: Stevens at the Crossing

Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate by Harold Bloom

July 14, 1977: Yeats's Vision (letter)

May 26, 1977: The Hard Case of Yeats

Yeats by Frank Tuohy

Maud Gonne by Samuel Levenson

W.B. Yeats and the Idea of a Theatre by James W. Flannery

The Cuchulain Plays of W.B. Yeats by Reg Skene

March 3, 1977: The Snow Man

Souvenirs and Prophecies: The Young Wallace Stevens by Holly Stevens

October 14, 1976: Drums Under the Window

The Damnable Question by George Dangerfield

Mother Ireland by Edna O'Brien

October 18, 1973: A Pleasing Discovery (letter)

July 19, 1973: Good Grief

Epistle to a Godson, and Other Poems by W.H. Auden

Forewords and Afterwords by W.H. Auden, selected by Edward Mendelson

Man's Place: An Essay on Auden by Richard Johnson

W.H. Auden as a Social Poet by Frederick Buell

April 19, 1973: Darling, They're Quoting Our Poem

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 4, 1900-1950 edited by I.R. Willison

The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950 chosen and edited by Helen Gardner

The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse chosen by Philip Larkin

December 2, 1971: Life Sentence

Meet Me in the Green Glen by Robert Penn Warren

The Condor Passes by Shirley Ann Grau

Edsel by Karl Shapiro

May 6, 1971: Waiting for the End

The Gulf by Derek Walcott

The Carrier of Ladders by W.S. Merwin

Darker by Mark Strand

The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace by James Merrill

The Whispering Roots and Other Poems by C. Day-Lewis

Collecting Evidence by Hugh Seidman

Baby Breakdown by Anne Waldman

November 5, 1970: Ghosts and Others

Adam and the Train: Two Novels by Heinrich Böll

Whitewater by Paul Horgan

The Dick by Bruce Jay Friedman

The Ghost of Henry James by David Plante

June 18, 1970: Language Barriers

The Best and the Last of Edwin O'Connor edited with an Introduction by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and with contributions by Edmund Wilson, by John V. Kelleher

Max Jamison by Wilfrid Sheed

May 7, 1970: Oasis Poetry

Derivations by Robert Duncan

Shall We Gather at the River by James Wright

Collected Poems by Alan Dugan

Leaflets by Adrienne Rich

The Naomi Poems: Corpse and Beans by Saint Geraud

March 12, 1970: The Uncompleted Dossier

Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene

Blind Love, and Other Stories by V.S. Pritchett

December 4, 1969: Confidence Men

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen by R.E. Raspe, illustrated by Ronald Searle, Introduction by S.J. Perelman

Selected Writings of E. T. A. Hoffmann edited, translated with an Introduction by Leonard J. Kent, by Elizabeth C. Knight, illustrated by Jacob Landau

October 9, 1969: Cash Nexus (letter)

October 9, 1969: Cummings and Goings

Selected Letters of E. E. Cummings edited by F.W. Dupee, edited by George Stade

July 10, 1969: Couples

Going Places by Leonard Michaels

Mirrors by Lucy Warner

What I'm Going to Do, I Think by L. Woiwode

A Nest of Ninnies by John Ashbery, by James Schuyler

June 19, 1969: Worldling

Secondary Worlds by W.H. Auden

Collected Longer Poems by W.H. Auden

Letters From Iceland by W.H. Auden, by Louis MacNeice

Völuspá: The Song of the Sybil translated by Paul B. Taylor, translated by W.H. Auden

Quest for the Necessary: W. H. Auden and the Dilemma of Divided Consciousness by Herbert Greenberg

Auden's Poetry by Justin Replogle

May 22, 1969: Second Thoughts

The World's Body by John Crowe Ransom

John Crowe Ransom: Critical Essays and a Bibliography edited by Thomas Daniel Young

Essays of Four Decades by Allen Tate

The Fugitive Group: A Literary History by Louise Cowan

The Burden of Time: The Fugitives and Agrarians by John L. Stewart

February 13, 1969: Parts of Speech

The Counterfeiters by Hugh Kenner

The Literature of Silence by Ihab Hassan

Yeats's Blessings on Von Hügel by Martin Green

January 16, 1969: A Very Special Case

Jonathan Swift, A Critical Biography by John Middleton Murry

Swift, The Man, His Works, and the Age. Volume Two: Dr. Swift by Irvin Ehrenpreis

Jonathan Swift by Nigel Dennis

Protean Shape: A Study in 18th. Century Vocabulary and Usage by Susie I. Tucker

July 11, 1968: Enigma Variations

Collected Poems 1915-1967 by Kenneth Burke

The Complete White Oxen by Kenneth Burke

Language as Symbolic Action by Kenneth Burke

Towards a Better Life (Second Edition) by Kenneth Burke

Counterstatement (Second Edition) by Kenneth Burke

The Philosophy of Literary Form by Kenneth Burke

June 6, 1968: Objects Solitary and Terrible

Live or Die by Anne Sexton

The Lice by W.S. Merwin

Reasons for Moving by Mark Strand

Love Letters from Asia by Sandra Hochman

April 25, 1968: That Old Eloquence

Not This Pig by Philip Levine

A 1-12 by Louis Zukofsky

After Experience by W.D. Snodgrass

April 11, 1968: Still Standing (letter)

March 28, 1968: It Was Wond'ring (letter)

February 29, 1968: The Black Ox

Forms of Discovery by Yvor Winters

February 1, 1968: Fabulous Salad

Wallace Stevens: The Making of Harmonium by Robert Buttel

Wallace Stevens: Musing the Obscure by Ronald Sukenick

December 21, 1967: The Other Country

The Golden Key by George MacDonald, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, Afterword by W.H. Auden

December 7, 1967: The Ordinary Universe

The Pyramid by William Golding

William Golding: A Critical Study by Mark Kinkead-Weekes, by Ian Gregor

The Art of William Golding by Bernard S. Oldsey, by Stanley Weintraub

Imaginary Friends by Alison Lurie

November 9, 1967: Moidores for Hart Crane

The Poetry of Hart Crane by R. W. B. Lewis

September 28, 1967: Sweepstakes

Why Are We In Vietnam? by Norman Mailer

Death Kit by Susan Sontag

The Puzzleheaded Girl by Christina Stead

August 24, 1967: What's Your Inner Reality?

The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder

Snow White by Donald Barthelme

August 3, 1967: Absolute Pitch

Nabokov: His Life in Art: A Critical Narrative by Andrew Field

June 15, 1967: Man Without Art

Death on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, translated by Ralph Manheim

Céline and His Vision by Erika Ostrovsky

May 4, 1967: Svevo's Comedy

Short Sentimental Journey, and Other Stories by Italo Svevo, Translations by Beryl de Zoete, by L. Collison-Morley, by Ben Johnson

Italo Svevo: The Man and the Writer by P.N. Furbank

April 6, 1967: The Politics of Poetry

W. B. Yeats and Georgian Ireland by Donald T. Torchiana

The Letters of John Gay edited by C.F. Burgess

March 9, 1967: Balloons

Nil: Episodes in the Literary Conquest of Void during the Nineteenth Century by Robert Martin Adams

A World Elsewhere: The Place of Style in American Literature by Richard Poirier

In the Human Grain: Technological Culture and Its Effect on Man, Literature and Religion by Walter J. Ong, by S.J.

January 12, 1967: Moorish Gorgeousness

Tell Me, Tell Me by Marianne Moore

December 1, 1966: Wallace Stevens, Imperator

The Letters of Wallace Stevens edited by Holly Stevens

November 17, 1966: Magic Defeated

The Time of the Angels by Iris Murdoch

The Birds Fall Down by Rebecca West

The Animal Hotel by Jean Garrigue

October 20, 1966: Miracle Plays

Miracles edited by Richard Lewis

Bertha, and Other Plays by Kenneth Koch

Reasons of the Heart by Edward Dahlberg

Cipango's Hinder Door by Edward Dahlberg

September 22, 1966: Aboriginal Poet

Collected Poems by Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke: An Introduction to the Poetry by Karl Malkoff

August 18, 1966: Grand Old Opry

Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth

July 28, 1966: Moravia's Vulgarity

Man as an End by Alberto Moravia, translated by Bernard Wall

The Lie by Alberto Moravia, translated by Angus Davidson

June 9, 1966: Experiments in Folly

The Doctor Is Sick by Anthony Burgess

The Secret Swinger by Alan Harrington

A Season in the Life of Emmanuel by Marie-Claire Blais, translated by Derek Coltman, Introduction by Edmund Wilson

May 26, 1966: Musil

Five Women by Robert Musil, translated by Eithne Wilkins, translated by Ernst Kaiser

April 28, 1966: A Good-Natured Man

Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith edited by Arthur Friedman

April 14, 1966: The Long Poem

Wildtrack by John Wain

Rivers and Mountains by John Ashbery

The War of the Secret Agents, and Other Poems by Henri Coulette

Nights and Days by James Merrill

March 3, 1966: Ultra Writer

Selected Letters of Malcolm Lowry edited by Harvey Breit, edited by Margerie Bonner Lowry

Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry, Reissued with an Introduction by Stephen Spender

February 3, 1966: Man of Letters

Collected Letters: Volume I (1874-1897) by Bernard Shaw, edited by Dan H. Laurence

The Unrepentant Pilgrim: A Study of the Development of Bernard Shaw by J. Percy Smith

G. B. Shaw: A Collection of Critical Essays edited by R.J. Kaufmann

December 9, 1965: Blues for Mr. Baldwin

Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin

November 11, 1965: Reconsidering Katherine Anne Porter

Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter

October 14, 1965: Dry Dreams

Letters to Anais Nin by Henry Miller

Plexus by Henry Miller

Sexus by Henry Miller

Nexus by Henry Miller

The World of Sex by Henry Miller

Quiet Days in Clichy by Henry Miller

Henry Miller on Writing edited by Thomas H. Moore

August 26, 1965: A Man of Words

James, Seumas and Jacques: Unpublished Writings of James Stephens edited by Lloyd Frankenberg

James Stephens: His Work and an Account of His Life by Hilary Pyle

From New York Review Books

The Stories of J.F. Powers Powers wrote about many things: baseball and jazz, race riots and lynchings, the Great Depression, and the flight to the suburbs. His greatest subject, however—and one that was uniquely his—was the life of priests in Chicago and the Midwest.

Books by Denis Donoghue

Adam's Curse: Reflections on Religion and Literature (2201)
Speaking of Beauty (2003)
Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot (2000)
The Practice of Reading (1998)
Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls (1995)
The Old Moderns: Essays on Literature and Theory (1994)
What Happens in Othello?: The Hilda Hume Memorial Lecture, 6 December 993 (1994)
The Pure Good of Theory (1992)
Who Says What: A Lecture Given at the Princess Grace Irish Library on Monday 21 January 1991; And, the Question of Voice (1992)
Being Modern Together (1991)
Warrenpoint (1990)
England, Their England: Commentaries on English Language and Literature (1988)
Reading America: Essays on American Literature (1987)
We Irish: Essays on Irish Literature and Society (1986)
Connoisseurs of Chaos: Ideas of Order in Modern American Poetry (1984)
The Arts Without Mystery (1983)
Ferocious Alphabets (1981)
The Sovereign Ghost: Studies in Imagination (1976)
Imagination (1974)
Thieves of Fire (1973)
William Butler Yeats (1971)
Yeats (1971)
Jonathan Swift: A Critical Introduction (1969)
The Ordinary Universe: Soundings in Modern Literature (1968)