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(1928-2021) Literary critic, author. Denis Donoghue was born in Tullow, Ireland, and died in Durham, North Carolina.

Full Name

Denis Donoghue

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1928

BIRTH

Denis Martin Donoghue was born in Tullow, Ireland, on December 1, 1928.

1965

LITWORK

Connoisseurs of Chaos: Ideas of Order in Modern American Poetry
Macmillan

Nonfiction.

1976

LITWORK

The Sovereign Ghost: Studies in Imagination
University of California Press
0520031342 / 978-0520031340
Nonfiction.

1980

OTHER

Mr. Donoghue taught at New York University beginning in 1980.

1986

LITWORK

We Irish: Essays on Irish Literature & Society
Knopf
0394554515 / 978-0394554518
Nonfiction.

1990

LITWORK

Warrenpoint
Knopf
0394539664 / 978-0394539669
Memoir.

1998

LITWORK

The Practice Of Reading
Yale University Press
0300074662 / 978-0300074666
Nonfiction.

2000

LITWORK

Words Alone: The Poet T. S. Eliot
Yale University Press
0300083297 / 978-0300083293
Nonfiction.

2001

LITWORK

Adam's Curse: Reflections on Religion and Literature
University of Notre Dame Press
0268020094 / 978-0268020095
Nonfiction.

2003

LITWORK

Speaking of Beauty
Yale University Press
0300098936 / 978-0300098938
Nonfiction.

2008

LITWORK

On Eloquence
Yale University Press
0300125410 / 978-0300125412
Nonfiction.

2014

LITWORK

Metaphor
Harvard University Press
0674430662 / 978-0674430662
Nonfiction.

2021

DEATH

Denis Donoghue died at his home in Durham, North Carolina, on April 6, 2021.

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