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Denis Devlin (April 15, 1908
- August 21, 1959) was, along with Samuel Beckett and Brian
Coffey, one of the generation of Irish modernist poets to emerge at the end of the 1920s. He was also a career diplomat.
He was born in Greenock, Scotland
of Irish parents, and his family returned to live in Dublin in 1918. He studied at University
College Dublin, where he met and befriended Brian Coffey. Together they
published a joint collection, Poems, in 1930.
He joined the Irish diplomatic service in 1935 and spent a number of years in New
York and Washington. During this time he met the French poet
St. John Perse, and the
Americans Allen Tate and Robert Penn Warren. He went on to publish a translation of Exile and Other Poems by St-John
Perse, and Tate and Warren edited his posthumous Selected Poems
Since his death, there have been two Collected Poems published; the first in 1964 was edited by Coffey and the second
in 1989 by J.C.C. Mays.
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