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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... learned ages , nor anywhere to be found in ancient manuscripts . " Tis true , ' said he , ' the word Calendæ hath in Q.V.C. ' been sometimes writ with a K , but erroneously , for in the best copies it has been ever spelt with a C. And ...
... learned ages , nor anywhere to be found in ancient manuscripts . " Tis true , ' said he , ' the word Calendæ hath in Q.V.C. ' been sometimes writ with a K , but erroneously , for in the best copies it has been ever spelt with a C. And ...
Page 69
... learned from their own confession ; for otherwise , there not being above two or three of that species born in an age , they were too few to form a general observation by . When they came to four - score years , which is reckoned the ...
... learned from their own confession ; for otherwise , there not being above two or three of that species born in an age , they were too few to form a general observation by . When they came to four - score years , which is reckoned the ...
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... learned to prize , More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise . His house was known to all the vagrant train , He chid their wand'rings , but relieved their pain ; The long - remembered beggar was his guest , Whose beard descending ...
... learned to prize , More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise . His house was known to all the vagrant train , He chid their wand'rings , but relieved their pain ; The long - remembered beggar was his guest , Whose beard descending ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Sir Richard Steele | 12 |
The Rediscovery of the Gaelic Tradition | 19 |
Copyright | |
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