Background
Donoghue was born at Tullow, County Carlow, into a Roman Catholic family, and was brought up in Warrenpoint, County Down, Northern Ireland, where his father was sergeant-in-charge of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
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A foremost critic of the English language here reflects on beauty and the language that it inspires in authors from Kant to Keats, Hawthorne to Housman. An excellent and eloquent book.”James Wood, New York Times Book Review A beautiful book about beauty. Enormously learned, allusive, recuperative, and citational, it is a passionate meditation on what has been said about beauty in the West from the Greeks to the present day.”J. Hillis Miller Donoghue talks . . . with a delightful informality and absence of dogma. . . . One of the most charming features of Denis Donoghue’s book is his appendix of afterwords,’ brief quotations on beauty from sundry writers.”John Bayley, New York Review of Books Continuously fascinating, continuously readable, the book speaks of beauty, and of speakers of beauty, in its own calm, steady voice. You won’t want to lay it down.”Hugh Kenner
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How is a classic book to be defined? How much time must elapse before a work may be judged a classic”? And among all the works of American literature, which deserve the designation? In this provocative new book Denis Donoghue essays to answer these questions. He presents his own short list of relative” classics--works whose appeal may not be universal but which nonetheless have occupied an important place in our culture for more than a century. These books have survived the abuses of timeneglect, contempt, indifference, willful readings, excesses of praise, and hyperbole. Donoghue bestows the term classic on just five American works: Melville’s Moby-Dick, Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Thoreau’s Walden, Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, and Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Examining each in a separate chapter, he discusses how the writings have been received and interpreted, and he offers his own contemporary readings, suggesting, for example, that in the post9/11 era, Moby-Dick may be rewardingly read as a revenge tragedy. Donoghue extends an irresistible invitation to open the pages of these American classics again, demonstrating with wit and acuity how very much they have to say to us now.
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A collection of essays explores the richness and variety of the English language and some unusual words and examines the two opposing schools of modern literary criticism, the Graphireader and Epireader.
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Donoghue was born at Tullow, County Carlow, into a Roman Catholic family, and was brought up in Warrenpoint, County Down, Northern Ireland, where his father was sergeant-in-charge of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
Bachelor, University College, Dublin, 1949. Master of Arts, University College, Dublin, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, University College, Dublin, 1957.
Master of Arts, Cambridge University, England, 1964.
He is the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters at New York University. He studied Latin and English at University College Dublin, earning a bachelor of arts degree in 1949, an Master of Arts in 1952, a Doctor of Philosophy in 1957, and a Doctor of Literature (honoris causa) in 1989.
And then at the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
He earned a Master of Arts at the University of Cambridge in 1964, and returned to Dublin, becoming a professor at University College Dublin. Since the late 1970s he has been a professor at New York University. In 1982 the British Broadcasting Corporation invited Donoghue to present its annual Reith Lectures.
Across six lectures, called The Arts Without Mystery, he discussed how society"s rationalisation of art was destroying its mystery.
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Member International Association University Professors English (executive committee).
Married Frances Rutledge, December 1, 1951. Children– David, Helen, Hugh, Celia, Mark, Barbara, Stella, Emma.