Songs of a Devotee. [The Tower Press Booklets, Number Two.]

Bookseller Notes

Thomas Goodwin Keohler, later Keller (an effect of the Great War), is principally remembered for his friendship with James Joyce, which, perhaps uniquely, extended from the latter's Dublin years to the end of his life. Both he (as 'Koehler') and Hely's, his place of work, are mentioned in 'Ulysses' that also being Leopold Bloom's ertswhile employer'; Keohler's pseudonym 'Michael Orkney', used for articles in periodicals, is also present in the drafts of 'Finnegans Wake'. Joyce is known to have carried a copy of the present work with him on his travels around Europe.This is the first of Keohler's two collections of poetry, published thirty years apart; it dates from the years of his most active engagement with the literary and theatrical scene in Dublin, most closely with A.E., whose interest in theosophy he shared; Keohler was involved in the attempts, early in the century, to establish a national theatre company along with Yeats et al., ending on the other side of the schism that emerged.