Creator
Ernest Boyd
Title
Ireland’s Literary Renaissance
Coverage
New York
Publisher
Knopf
Date
1922
Subject
Inscribed by James Joyce to his brother Stanislaus Joyce.
Description
Ernest Boyd made one of the most thorough studies of the Irish Literary Revival. Borrowing books from John Quinn’s library in New York City, he championed most of the important literary figures in Ireland, but in the first edition of 1917 he omitted James Joyce. In this revised edition of 1922, Boyd included eight pages on Joyce and the impact of Ulysses. Ever sensitive, Joyce must have felt redeemed, because he presents this book to his brother and confidant, signing it as he did to his family alone: “To Stannie / Jim / Paris / 6 September, 1923.”
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