David Pierce Author

David Pierce has taught, read, and written about modern literature and Irish writing for more than thirty years. He is on the Board of the International James Joyce Foundation, is reviews editor for estudiosirlandeses.org, an internet journal devoted to Irish Studies, and the author of W.B.Yeats State of the Art (Bristol Classical Press,1989); James Joyce's Ireland (Yale University Press, 1992); Yeats's Worlds: Ireland, England and the Poetic Imagination (Yale University Press, 1995); W.B.Yeats Critical Assessments 4 vols (Helm Information, 2000); Light, Freedom and Song: A Cutural History of Modern irish Writing (Yale University Press, 2005); Joyce and Company (Continuum, 2006); and Reading Joyce (Longman, 2008). Now retired, David lives in York, UK.