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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... reason , and to be wholly governed by it . Neither is reason among them a point problematical as with us , where men can argue with plausibility on both sides of a question ; but strikes you with immediate conviction ; as it must needs ...
... reason , and to be wholly governed by it . Neither is reason among them a point problematical as with us , where men can argue with plausibility on both sides of a question ; but strikes you with immediate conviction ; as it must needs ...
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... reason for being so particu- lar on this subject , at present , arises from your unsatisfactory , imper- fect letter , from Fort St. George , which is written so unlike that of a gentleman , a scholar , or a man of business . Pray ...
... reason for being so particu- lar on this subject , at present , arises from your unsatisfactory , imper- fect letter , from Fort St. George , which is written so unlike that of a gentleman , a scholar , or a man of business . Pray ...
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... reason of her dislike to a gentleman , who was in every other respect unexceptionable . I am glad it was no worse , said lady V , smiling ; I am sure Mr. Faulkland is not capable of a base action ; youthful follies he may have had ...
... reason of her dislike to a gentleman , who was in every other respect unexceptionable . I am glad it was no worse , said lady V , smiling ; I am sure Mr. Faulkland is not capable of a base action ; youthful follies he may have had ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
NAHUM TATE 16521715 | 22 |
JOHN TOLAND 16701722 | 95 |
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