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| Name: |
Padraic Colum | | Birth Date: |
1881 | | Death Date: |
January 11, 1972 | | Place of Birth: |
County Longford, Ireland | | Place of Death: |
Enfield, Connecticut, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
poet, author, playwright |
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 Biography of Padraic Colum
603 words, approx. 2 pages
 The Irish-American author Padraic Colum (1881-1972), best known for his poetry and plays, was active in the Irish Literary Revival. Padraic Colum was born in County Longford and as a youth met many who had lived through the Great Famine, which ravaged... summary from source:
 Biography of Padraic Colum
4,111 words, approx. 14 pages
 At one point during the discussion of Dublin's literary life that takes place in the National Library in the "Scylla and Charybdis" episode of Ulysses (1922), Stephen Dedalus overhears the following comment: "I liked Colum's Drover. Yes,I think he has... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Padraic Colum Information
1,106 words, approx. 4 pages
Padraic Colum (8 December, 1881 – 11 January, 1972) was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer and collector of folklore. He was one of the leading figures of the Celtic...
  Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Zack Bowen
2,655 words, approx. 9 pages
It is wholly proper that Padraic Colum is best known as poet, for his poems are his most significant contribution to literature…. To dismiss Colum's style as merely straightforward, accurate, or simple, as many critics have done, is to do the craftsmanship of the poetry a considerable disservice. The way Colum says things is very often beautiful and his poetic scenes and the characters as delightful as they are unassuming and familiar. His language is unpretentious and his verse forms are pred... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Ernest Boyd
1,417 words, approx. 5 pages
Padraic Colum was the first of the peasant dramatists, in the strict sense of the word; he was, that is to say, the first to dramatise the realities of rural life in Ireland. Where Synge's fantastic intuition divined human prototypes, Colum's realistic insight revealed local peasant types, whose general significance is subordinate to the immediate purpose of the dramatist. Together they define the limits within which our folk-drama has developed, for none of the later playwrights has added any... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Harold Clurman
930 words, approx. 3 pages
[Though] "Balloon" cannot be regarded as an "intellectual" play, it is none the less true that its writing must have first been impelled by a general idea. To put it briefly, Mr. Colum purports to show that a man's acts are significant only as they are expressions of his own inner being, and that a world where action becomes a value in itself is a ludicrous and empty show. But this is the world we live in; and in the play it is represented by the great hotel in Megalopolis...
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