Irish Literature: The Eighteenth CenturyAlexander Norman Jeffares, Peter Van de Kamp 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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... nature , without which we should be all in uncertainty and confusion , and a grown man no more know how to manage himself in the affairs of life than an infant just born . 32 And yet this consistent uniform working , which so evidently ...
... nature , without which we should be all in uncertainty and confusion , and a grown man no more know how to manage himself in the affairs of life than an infant just born . 32 And yet this consistent uniform working , which so evidently ...
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... nature , which are very grand and astonishing in this part of the world , I have gone many a mile out of my way while I have been looking for several days past for my friend , and have ventured into places where very few I believe would ...
... nature , which are very grand and astonishing in this part of the world , I have gone many a mile out of my way while I have been looking for several days past for my friend , and have ventured into places where very few I believe would ...
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... nature of Invention and Memory . The secret fear that stimulates parents to compel their children to constant application to certain books arises , from the opinion , that much chronological and historical knowledge must at all events ...
... nature of Invention and Memory . The secret fear that stimulates parents to compel their children to constant application to certain books arises , from the opinion , that much chronological and historical knowledge must at all events ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
NAHUM TATE 16521715 | 22 |
JOHN TOLAND 16701722 | 95 |
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