Ernest Boyd, a semi-detached intellectual

This study is the account of a man of many talents diverted by a success too easy and a failure too hard to allow full realization of any of them. Ernest A. Boyd started his literary career as a distinguished critic and historian of the Irish Literary Renaissance. He ended it as a querulous and irresponsible detractor of everything he encountered. The twenty-three years between these events were crowded with bibulous and productive days. [...]