Day, Martin S.2022-11-282022-11-28195714071939https://hdl.handle.net/10657/12732This 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. [...]application/pdfenThis item is protected by copyright but is made available here under a claim of fair use (17 U.S.C. Section 107) for non-profit research and educational purposes. Users of this work assume the responsibility for determining copyright status prior to reusing, publishing, or reproducing this item for purposes other than what is allowed by fair use or other copyright exemptions. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires express permission of the copyright holder.Thesisreformatted digital