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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... speak of a young Commoner that said a lively thing in the House , he starts up , ' He has good blood in his veins ; Tom Mirabell begot him , the rogue cheated me in that affair ; that young fellow's mother used me more like a dog than ...
... speak of a young Commoner that said a lively thing in the House , he starts up , ' He has good blood in his veins ; Tom Mirabell begot him , the rogue cheated me in that affair ; that young fellow's mother used me more like a dog than ...
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... speak to the living the language of integrity and freedom . Your historians did not supply the want of monuments ; on the con- trary , these narrators of your misfortunes , who should have felt for your wrongs , and have punished your ...
... speak to the living the language of integrity and freedom . Your historians did not supply the want of monuments ; on the con- trary , these narrators of your misfortunes , who should have felt for your wrongs , and have punished your ...
Page 367
... speak ; not but I believe he is brave enough , but he has a little mind . There cannot be imagined a situation more ... speak of the expedition , it is in a style of despondency , and , when they are not speaking of it , they are playing ...
... speak ; not but I believe he is brave enough , but he has a little mind . There cannot be imagined a situation more ... speak of the expedition , it is in a style of despondency , and , when they are not speaking of it , they are playing ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Sir Richard Steele | 12 |
The Rediscovery of the Gaelic Tradition | 19 |
Copyright | |
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