Hail and Farewell (Classic Reprint): Vale - Couverture souple

George Moore

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331329906 ISBN 13 : 9781331329909

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

In Hail and Farewell, George Moore reflects on language, travel, and the making of a writer with sharp insight and a poet’s eye for detail.

This collection offers Moore’s takes on Irish speech, literary influence, and the adventures that shape a life in letters.

• Explore Moore’s observations on how language shifts between rural and urban speech, and what that means for Irish and English writing.
• Read engaging discussions of Yeats, Lady Gregory, Synge, and other figures in Irish letters, through Moore’s precise, often witty lens.
• Journey with the author as travel and memory intertwine, shaping his ideas about literature, culture, and artistic craft.
• See how personal experience, travel, and a writer’s ambitions come together to illuminate the art of writing.

Ideal for readers who enjoy literary nonfiction, language study, and a thoughtful look at Irish literary history.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Hail and Farewell: Vale

It was about the time of the publication of my letter to the Irish Times, mentioned in the last pages of Salve, that I received from the French Consul an invitation to dinner to meet the Secretary of the Consulate M. Orange, a young man, a poet, au moins il a publié un volume de vers chez Lemerre. The Meaulles, Monsieur et Madame, are among my pleasantest memories of Dublin, and on the night in question, when it was time to bid our host and hostess good-night, I suggested to Orange that we should walk back to Dublin together, thinking that perhaps he might like to talk French poetry with me. As we passed through the garden-gate he muttered: 'Voilà une soiree bien passee.' He was quite right; we had passed a pleasant evening in pleasant company. But the next time we dined at the Meaulles' the same words were uttered, at the same place; the reiteration attracted my attention, and I began to read into them a hidden meaning: that we were nearer our graves than we had been earlier in the afternoon; and when he repeated the same words some weeks afterwards, they suggested still another meaning to me.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331329906
• ISBN 13: 9781331329909
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 397
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