A Literary History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to the Present Day

Edité par T. Fisher Unwin Ltd, London and Leipsic, 1910

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654 Pages Indexed. The previous owner's name label is pasted to the front endpaper. The covers are showing their age by light wear and the front board is beginning to loosen yet remains reasonably tight. The interior text pages are bright, tight, white, and free of marks. The purpose of this book is to give a general view of the literature produced by the Irish-speaking Irish, and to give examples of its characteristic features. In studying the literature itself, both that of the past and that of the present, one of the things which is most striking is the marked absence of great predominating names, or of great predominating works while there is a love of literature amongst all classes of the native Irish. The whole history of Irish literature shows how warmly the efforts of all who assisted in its production were appreciated. The love for literature of a traditional type, in song, in poem, in saga, was more nearly universal in Ireland than in any country of western Europe, and hence that which appears to be of most value in ancient Irish literature is not that whose authorship is known, but rather the mass of traditional matter which seems to have grown up almost spontaneously, and slowly shaped itself into the literary possession of an entire nation. An almost universal acquaintance with a traditional literature was a leading trait amongst the Irish down to the last century, when every barony and almost every townland still possessed its poet and reciter, and song, recitation, music, and oratory were the recognized amusements of nearly the whole population. That population in consequence, so far as wit and readiness of language and power of expression went, had almost all attained a remarkably high level, without however producing anyone of a commanding eminence. In collecting the literature of the present day also, the unknown traditional poems and the Ossianic ballads and the stories of unknown authorship are of greater value than the pieces of bards who are known and named. In both cases, that of the ancient and that of the modern Irish, all that is of most value as literature, was the property and in some sense the product of the people at large, and it exercised upon them a most striking and potent influence. And this influence may be traced amongst the Irish-speaking population even at the present day, who have a remarkable command of language and a large store of traditional literature learned by heart.

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Titre
A Literary History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to the Present Day
Auteur
Hyde, Douglas LL.D M.R.I.A
Éditeur
T. Fisher Unwin Ltd, London and Leipsic
Année de publication
1910
État de l'article
Fair
Jaquette
No Dust Jacket
Reliure
Hard Back
Édition
Sixth Printing
Dimensions
6" x 9"

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