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In Memoriam James Joyce
poetry by MacDiarmid
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English literature
- In English literature: Celtic Modernism: Yeats, Joyce, Jones, and MacDiarmid
…to establish, as in his In Memoriam James Joyce (1955), the truly cosmopolitan nature of Celtic consciousness and achievement. MacDiarmid’s masterpiece in the vernacular, A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926), helped to inspire the Scottish renaissance of the 1920s and ’30s.
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