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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... told me her husband would soon be at home , and be glad she was sure to see me at their lonely place ; for he was no stranger to gentlemen and the world , though at present he rarely conversed with any one . She told me , their own ...
... told me her husband would soon be at home , and be glad she was sure to see me at their lonely place ; for he was no stranger to gentlemen and the world , though at present he rarely conversed with any one . She told me , their own ...
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... told her very gravely : ' That though she was a beggar , water was not so scarce but she might have washed her hands . ' And so we marched with the silver verge ' before us to the Dean's House . When we came into the parlour , the Dean ...
... told her very gravely : ' That though she was a beggar , water was not so scarce but she might have washed her hands . ' And so we marched with the silver verge ' before us to the Dean's House . When we came into the parlour , the Dean ...
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... told my lady in general terms , that though Mr. Faulkland might pretend to a lady every way my superior , yet there was an objection to him of no small weight with us ; that my mother had been informed of a very recent piece of ...
... told my lady in general terms , that though Mr. Faulkland might pretend to a lady every way my superior , yet there was an objection to him of no small weight with us ; that my mother had been informed of a very recent piece of ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
NAHUM TATE 16521715 | 22 |
JOHN TOLAND 16701722 | 95 |
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| Title | Irish Literature: The Eighteenth Century |
| Editors | Alexander Norman Jeffares, Peter Van de Kamp |
| Contributors | Alexander Norman Jeffares, Peter Van de Kamp |
| Publisher | Irish Academic Press, 2006 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 27 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0716527995, 9780716527992 |
| Length | 402 pages |
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