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Thomas Flanagan There You Are: Writings on Irish and American Literature and History. New York Review Books, 300 pages, $24.95
reviewed by Richard Tillinghast
Thomas Flanagan, who died in 2002 at the age of seventy-nine, was, in addition to his achievements as a novelist, one of our most humane and readable practitioners of literary criticism and commentary. Though he came of age during the New Criticism era, Flanagan was, as his friend Seamus Heaney puts it in his preface to this new collection, "a history and biography man." His 1959 study, The Irish Novelists, 1800-1850, rescued from oblivion such writers as Maria Edgeworth, Lady Morgan, Gerard ...
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