Versicles (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Thomas Caulfield Irwin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331803764 ISBN 13 : 9781331803768

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Mr. Irwin is fluent fanciful, melodious, and pleasuit to raad. .H is Songs are sparklinj; and full of verve. London Quaktbrly R- IBW. There are in those VS shape and form, and a wide ran of knowledge and thought. The rytlun is full-sounded and self-restrained ;the metres original and well chosen, harmonising with the subject a metre only does when selected by a poet: for he alone can make subject and metre accord as voice and instrument Mr. Irwin exhibits strength and fertility, wluch augur well for future crops. The colours are tastefully app Ued. The death House displays power, with the tall elms knee dtep in loam cing the dumb door, and filling the windows with their goom. ATHBN iBUM on Irwin s Versides, February i6th, i8s6. At length, by the grace of God, I reland has a poet who may rival theost gifted of other lands. Thomas C. Irwin is the nuuu He is a true-bom poet, if ever there was one. He has shown in this, his first Bublication (V ersicles, 1856), a mastery of his art which the best of his I rish predecessors do not possess. There is none among them like unto him, or second to him, in that respect. There is a ripeness ot knowledge a mastery of the poets art, an equanimity of temperament, and sense of power displayed throusout. .. Mr. Irwin has extraordinary powers; he might oe the I rish Shakspeare the Shakspeare ot every land where the language is English, and the blood partially Celtic. Thb Tkibuni on Ve Nides. i836. It is a comfort to meet with an I rish poet who does not Uft up that eternal wail as that of a race in exile, sorrowing over a splendid past and hopeless future; one who finds life liveable, and poetry to be got out of it. If his countrymen were only wise enough to unite and live in the same spirit as he writes in, they wrould soon make a brighter outlook for the future. His themes are all nicely felt and appropriately expressed. Man
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331803764
• ISBN 13: 9781331803768
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 289
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