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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... leave . And lastly , wherever I am , you shall always knock at the door before you come in . These articles subscribed , if I continue to endure you a little longer , I may by degrees dwindle into a wife . MIRABELL Your bill of fare is ...
... leave . And lastly , wherever I am , you shall always knock at the door before you come in . These articles subscribed , if I continue to endure you a little longer , I may by degrees dwindle into a wife . MIRABELL Your bill of fare is ...
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... leave me alone , and so he claps not only himself , but his old - fashioned wife , on my back . They talk of coming to sup with us too ; and then , I suppose , we are to run the gauntlet thro ' all the rest of the family . - What have ...
... leave me alone , and so he claps not only himself , but his old - fashioned wife , on my back . They talk of coming to sup with us too ; and then , I suppose , we are to run the gauntlet thro ' all the rest of the family . - What have ...
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... leaving my house directly ! MRS . CANDOUR . Well , well , we are going , and depend on't , we'll make the best report ... Leave my house ! And how patiently you bear it . Fiends ! vipers ! furies ! Oh , that their own venom would choke ...
... leaving my house directly ! MRS . CANDOUR . Well , well , we are going , and depend on't , we'll make the best report ... Leave my house ! And how patiently you bear it . Fiends ! vipers ! furies ! Oh , that their own venom would choke ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Sir Richard Steele | 12 |
The Rediscovery of the Gaelic Tradition | 19 |
Copyright | |
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