(Fontana Modern Masters, 1971) W. B. Yeats, Memoirs (1972) editor Thieves of Fire (1973) T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures. Seven American Poets from MacLeish to Nemerov (1975) essays on John Berryman, Richard Eberhart, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, Howard Nemerov and Theodore Roethke The Sovereign Ghost: Studies in Imagination (1976) Ferocious Alphabets (1981) criticism The Politics of Modern Criticism (1981) The Arts Without Mystery (1983) 1982 Reith Lectures Creation and Interpretation (1984) with William Barrett, Richard Wollheim R. P. Blackmur, Selected Essays (1986) editor We Irish : Essays on Irish Literature & Society (1986) Reading America: Essays on American Literature (1987) America in Theory (1988) editor with Leslie Berlowitz and Louis Menand England their England: Commentaries on English Language and Literature (1988) Warrenpoint (1990) memoirs The Pure Good Of Theory (1992) Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory Who Says What and The Question of Voice (1992) Princess Grace Irish Library Lectures The Old Moderns,: Essays on Literature and Theory (1994) Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls (1995) biography Henry James Complete Stories, 1898-1910 (1997) editor Practice Of Reading (1998) Words Alone : The Poet T. S. Eliot (2000) Adam's Curse: Reflections on Religion and Literature (2001) Speaking of Beauty (2003) The American Classics (2005) On Eloquence (2008) Warrenpoint (2013) Metaphor (2014) Broadcasting In 1982 the BBC 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. References Sources 1928 births 2021 deaths Irish writers Irish literary critics New York University faculty Musicians from County Down Alumni of the Royal Irish Academy of Music Alumni of University College Dublin People educated at Abbey Christian Brothers' Grammar School Musicians from County Carlow Irish expatriates in the United States Date of birth missing