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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... fortune , but that supposition is impossible . Since it is evident , that no fortune can be so large , and inexhaustible , as to be able to supply an extravagance of this kind . There is no fund adequate to gameing : nor can you imag ...
... fortune , but that supposition is impossible . Since it is evident , that no fortune can be so large , and inexhaustible , as to be able to supply an extravagance of this kind . There is no fund adequate to gameing : nor can you imag ...
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... fortunes are ruined by it , for one that is raised . So that in this respect , a particular curse seems to attend it . And surely it is little less than madness , to pro- pose to establish your fortune , by any method , where the odds ...
... fortunes are ruined by it , for one that is raised . So that in this respect , a particular curse seems to attend it . And surely it is little less than madness , to pro- pose to establish your fortune , by any method , where the odds ...
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... Fortune's Store Thou canst not boast of Fortune's store , My love , while me they wealthy call : But I was glad to find thee poor , For with my heart I'd give thee all . And 325 John Philpot Curran RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN (1751-1816) ...
... Fortune's Store Thou canst not boast of Fortune's store , My love , while me they wealthy call : But I was glad to find thee poor , For with my heart I'd give thee all . And 325 John Philpot Curran RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN (1751-1816) ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Sir Richard Steele | 12 |
The Rediscovery of the Gaelic Tradition | 19 |
Copyright | |
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