Abstract

"Recent Irish Poetry" (1934), while well-known to Beckett critics, has most frequently been read only in terms of a straightforward binarism between "antiquarian" Celtic twilighter and modernist "other." This essay attempts to move beyond the familiar reading by examining the essay's dialogue with other contributors to the "Irish Number" of in which it originally appeared, to survey readings of the text as Irish modernist manifesto, and to treat it as a "precipitate in prose."

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