Hudibras in Ireland. A Burlesque on the Late Holy Wars in the Sister Kingdom
Title | Hudibras in Ireland. A Burlesque on the Late Holy Wars in the Sister Kingdom PDF eBook |
Author | Hudibras (fict.name.) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 156 |
Release | 1825 |
Genre | Ireland |
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Hudibras in Ireland
Title | Hudibras in Ireland PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 188 |
Release | 1828 |
Genre | Ireland |
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Verse in English from Eighteenth-century Ireland
Title | Verse in English from Eighteenth-century Ireland PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Carpenter |
Publisher | Cork University Press |
Total Pages | 662 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781859181034 |
This pioneering anthology introduces many previously neglected eighteenth-century writers to a general readership, and will lead to a re-examination of the entire canon of Irish verse in English. Between 1700 and 1800, Dublin was second only to London as a center for the printing of poetry in English. Many fine poets were active during this period. However, because Irish eighteenth-century verse in English has to a great extent escaped the scholar and the anthologist, it is hardly known at all. The most innovative aspect of this new anthology is the inclusion of many poetic voices entirely unknown to modern readers. Although the anthology contains the work of well-known figures such as John Toland, Thomas Parnell, Jonathan Swift, Patrick Delany, Laetitia Pilkington and Oliver Goldsmith, there are many verses by lesser known writers and nearly eighty anonymous poems which come from the broadsheets, manuscripts and chapbooks of the time. What emerges is an entirely new perspective on life in eighteenth-century Ireland. We hear the voice of a hard working farmer's wife from county Derry, of a rambling weaver from county Antrim, and that of a woman dying from drink. We learn about whale-fishing in county Donegal, about farming in county Kerry and bull-baiting in Dublin. In fact, almost every aspect of life in eighteenth-century Ireland is described vividly, energetically, with humor and feeling in the verse of this anthology. Among the most moving poems are those by Irish-speaking poets who use amhran or song meter and internal assonance, both borrowed from Irish, in their English verse. Equally interesting is the work of the weaver poets of Ulster who wrote in vigorous and energetic Ulster-Scots. The anthology also includes political poems dating from the reign of James II to the Act of Union, as well as a selection of lesser-known nationalist and Orange songs. Each poem is fully annotated and the book also contains a glossary of terms in Hiberno-English and Ulster Scots.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Title | British Museum Catalogue of printed Books PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 710 |
Release | 1881 |
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Eighteenth-century Ireland
Title | Eighteenth-century Ireland PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 400 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Ireland |
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The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800
Title | The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800 PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Lynch |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 750 |
Release | 2016-11-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0191019690 |
In the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, forty-four authorities from six countries survey the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity—serious and satirical, public and private, by men and women, nobles and peasants, whether published in deluxe editions or sung on the streets. The contributors discuss poems in social contexts, poetic identities, poetic subjects, poetic form, poetic genres, poetic devices, and criticism. Even experts in eighteenth-century poetry will see familiar poems from new angles, and all readers will encounter poems they've never read before. The book is not a chronologically organized literary history, nor an encyclopaedia, nor a collection of thematically related essays; rather it is an attempt to provide a systematic overview of these poetic works, and to restore it to a position of centrality in modern criticism.
Hudibras in the Burlesque Tradition
Title | Hudibras in the Burlesque Tradition PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Ames Richards |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 204 |
Release | 1937 |
Genre | Burlesque |
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