Irish Literature: The Eighteenth CenturyAlexander Norman Jeffares, Peter Van de Kamp Irish Academic Press, 2006 - 402 pages Irish Literature Eighteenth Century illustrates not only the impressive achievement of the great writers-Swift, Berkeley, Burke, Goldsmith and Sheridan-but also shows the varied accomplishment of others, providing unexpected, entertaining examples from the pens of the less well known. Here are examples of the witty comic dramas so successfully written by Susannah Centlivre, Congreve, Steele, Farquhar and Macklin. There are serious and humorous essayists represented, including Steele, Lord Orrery, Thomas Sheridan and Richard Lovell Edgeworth. Beginning with Gulliver's Travels, fiction includes John Amory's strange imaginings, Sterne's stream of consciousness, Frances Sheridan's insights, Henry Brooke's sentimentalities and Goldsmith's charm. Poetry ranges from the classical to the innovative. Graceful lyrics, anonymous jeux d'esprit, descriptive pieces, savage satires and personal poems are written by very different poets, among them learned witty women, clergymen and drunken ne'er-do-wells. Politicians, notably Grattan and Curran, produced eloquent speeches; effective essays and pamphlets accompanied political activity. Personal letters and diaries-such as the exuberant Dorothea Herbert's Recollections-convey the changing ethos of this century's literature, based on the classics and moving to an increasing interest in the translation of Irish literature. This book conveys its fascinating liveliness and rich variety. |
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... followed him to Ireland , living in Dublin and then in Celbridge Abbey until her early death in 1723. Their troubled friendship is described in Swift's long poem ' Cadenus and Vanessa ' . Swift took some time to recover from his ...
... followed him to Ireland , living in Dublin and then in Celbridge Abbey until her early death in 1723. Their troubled friendship is described in Swift's long poem ' Cadenus and Vanessa ' . Swift took some time to recover from his ...
Page 97
... followed by a tragedy , The Mourning Bride , in 1697 - the most profitable of his plays . His career as a dramatist virtually ended with The Way of the World ( 1700 ) , a brilliant play though in a genre which was falling out of fashion ...
... followed by a tragedy , The Mourning Bride , in 1697 - the most profitable of his plays . His career as a dramatist virtually ended with The Way of the World ( 1700 ) , a brilliant play though in a genre which was falling out of fashion ...
Page 197
... followed by the other volumes at intervals up to 1767. It was immediate- ly popular and Sterne followed Tristram Shandy with The Sermons of Mr Yorick ( 1760-69 ) , which was also extremely successful . He travelled to France ( 1762-64 ) ...
... followed by the other volumes at intervals up to 1767. It was immediate- ly popular and Sterne followed Tristram Shandy with The Sermons of Mr Yorick ( 1760-69 ) , which was also extremely successful . He travelled to France ( 1762-64 ) ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Sir Richard Steele | 12 |
The Rediscovery of the Gaelic Tradition | 19 |
Copyright | |
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