TMS - Giants of Irish Literature - Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett (compressed m4a)

Written by George O'Brien
Read by George O'Brien
Format: m4a
Unabridged

Listening Length: 8 hours and 17 minutes

Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett: These four masters of Irish literature created works of startling innovation and unparalleled literary merit. They defied popular expectations and confounded critics with unique masterpieces that one might think of as puzzles, the solution of which lies at the heart of the modern age. Understanding the works of these greats, all associated to some degree with the Irish Literary Revival, is fundamental not only to a richer appreciation of Irish literature, but to a better comprehension of modern literature in all its manifestations, for these authors struggled with the idea of modernity and all it entailed, and the fruits of their struggle stand as monuments to the remarkable capacity of literary imagination.

Renowned professor George O'Brien of Georgetown University provides the biographical background of these authors and an in-depth analysis of their greatest works. In the course of these lectures, O'Brien discusses the very qualities that set these works apart and the "Irishness" that characterizes each of them.

This is a correctly organized and compressed copy of another user's upload. The m4a compression isn't detectable, but is quarter the size. pm me if you want to know how I do it (thanks sup3rman) as it is great for saving space.