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Denis Donoghue (1 December 1928 – 6 April 2021) was an Irish literary critic. He was the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters at New York University.
Apr 17, 2021 · Denis Donoghue, an Irish academic whose wide-ranging literary tastes, erudite analysis of poets like T.S. Eliot and William Butler Yeats, and fierce aversion to the impositions of postmodern...
Apr 8, 2021 · Denis Donoghue, who has died aged 92, was one of the world's foremost scholars of modern literature. He published more than 30 books and held professorships at New York University and his alma...
Sep 26, 2021 · Denis Donoghue (1928-2021), the youngest of four surviving children, was the son of a stern and silent father, a Catholic policeman in the Protestant Royal Ulster Constabulary. (The father of the poet Geoffrey Hill was also a policeman.)
Donoghue is best known as an opponent of what he called, in the title of a 1989 essay, “The Political Turn in Criticism.” The legend about the New Criticism, created by the young critics who deposed it in the 1960s, is that it was apolitical and ahistorical, interested in the text as an object rather than a moral statement or a document of ...
He has taught at Cambridge University, University College Dublin, University of Pennsylvania, University of California-Los Angeles, and New York University, where he serves as professor emeritus. Over his four-decade career, the Irish-born critic has written several highly praised works on British, Irish, and American literature and culture.
Apr 25, 2021 · Denis Donoghue, literary critic and academic of international standing, died peacefully after a short illness at his home in Durham, North Carolina, aged 92.
