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...
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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 c...
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Critical Essay by Alice Corbin Henderson
Padraic Colum is one of the most gifted, if not the most gifted, of the younger Irish poets…. Some of the other younger Irish poets have seemed to echo...
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Critical Essay by William Turner Levy
Padraic Colum has been acknowledged as a master of the Irish faerie: the quaint and leprechaunish peasants have been celebrated by him in prose and verse. This i...
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Critical Essay by Zack Bowen
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 a...
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Critical Essay by The Dial
[Mogu, the Wanderer] is fantastic and full of authentic oriental color. It moves in a world, both physically and psychologically remote, where Fate, though never actually p...
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Critical Essay by Ernest Boyd
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 Ire...
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Critical Essay by Broom
The material [of Castle Conquer] is rich and interesting: a feudal Ireland for a background; a plot of political conspiracy and peasant revolt; a love tale; Irish tenant farme...
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Critical Essay by Ernest Boyd
Those who have followed the work of Padraic Colum from its beginnings in "Wild Earth" have always looked forward to the novel which one felt he could and w...
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Critical Essay by Walter Prichard Eaton
["Balloon"] is a four act comedy in prose. The jacket says "it is the first play to be based on modern philosophical ideas. The action tak...
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Critical Essay by Harold Clurman
[Though] "Balloon" cannot be regarded as an "intellectual" play, it is none the less true that its writing must have first been impelled b...
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Critical Essay by Melvin Maddocks
Written over the past 10 years, ["The Flying Swans"] lacks momentum, as works extended over a period of time often do. It sprawls rather than drives th...
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Critical Essay by Vivian Mercier
A broad plain, frequently accented by little hills, would certainly form an appropriate metaphor to describe the effect of Padraic Colum's new novel [The Flyin...
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Padraic Colum
Padraic Colum
Critical Essay by Alice Corbin Henderson
