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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... seemed menacing . Radical agitation was rife in England - the first part of Paine's The Rights of Man ( 1781 ) was written as a reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France ( 1790 ) - and Ireland was discontented . The Irish ...
... seemed menacing . Radical agitation was rife in England - the first part of Paine's The Rights of Man ( 1781 ) was written as a reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France ( 1790 ) - and Ireland was discontented . The Irish ...
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... seemed , says Libanius , the common father of their public , so attentive was he to the happiness and advantage of his whole country . But as it is very diffi- cult to correct the aged , and to make people change principles , who revere ...
... seemed , says Libanius , the common father of their public , so attentive was he to the happiness and advantage of his whole country . But as it is very diffi- cult to correct the aged , and to make people change principles , who revere ...
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... seemed to recover their audacity . They sur- rounded him again and would have seized his hands . ' What do you mean ? ' cried the King , sharply withdrawing his hands . " To bind you , ' replied one of them . ' To bind me ! I shall ...
... seemed to recover their audacity . They sur- rounded him again and would have seized his hands . ' What do you mean ? ' cried the King , sharply withdrawing his hands . " To bind you , ' replied one of them . ' To bind me ! I shall ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Sir Richard Steele | 12 |
The Rediscovery of the Gaelic Tradition | 19 |
Copyright | |
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