Download or read book The Poems of Thomas Sheridan written by Thomas Sheridan and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The reputation of Thomas Sheridan has probably suffered from the occasional ridicule of his longtime friend and collaborator Jonathan Swift. Nevertheless, Swift valued Sheridan's wit and company immensely, and the verse-warfares in which the two friends often indulged were not always won by Swift." "Sheridan was not only one of the most memorable Dubliners of the early eighteenth century. Convivial, charming, highspirited, and feckless, he was also a prominent schoolmaster (the best in Europe, according to Swift), cleric, translator, playwright, essayist, and a prolific writer of accomplished light verse. Called Tom Pun-Sibi, or Tom the Punster, because of his droll essay The Art of Punning, he poured forth a seemingly endless stream of punning satires, verse letters to his friends, and satirical observations on the Dublin of his day." "For all of his prolific output, only some of his Swift poems have remained in print, and they are in various editions of Swift's verse. This volume gathers together for the first time Sheridan's complete poetic works, including those published as broadsides or in contemporary journals and those contained in unpublished letters and manuscripts. Of particular interest for such a social poet is the inclusion of poems to and about Sheridan by his many friends and very vocal enemies."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book The Poems of Patrick Delany written by Patrick Delany and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick Delany's reputation as a scholar and tutor at Trinity College, Dublin, and an influential preacher in his time, apologist for Church of Ireland causes, and foremost defender of Jonathan Swift against the criticisms and slanders of Lord Orrery is well documented. The purpose of this edition is to establish an authoritative text to show what sort of poet Delany is, why we should read his poems, and to claim for him a position of importance as an eighteenth-century Irish poet.
Download or read book Thomas Sheridan s Career and Influence written by Conrad Brunstorm and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambitious polymath Thomas Sheridan (1719-1788) was the lynchpin of the most fascinating family in Anglo-Irish literary history. The godson (and future biographer) of Jonathan Swift, the son of Thomas Sheridan senior, a talented poet and scholar, the husband of the novelist Frances Sheridan and the father of the dramatist and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan, this new study reconstructs this much maligned transitional Sheridan as a monumental figure in his own right. This book discusses the varied and relentless energies of Thomas Sheridan in an attempt to recover an overall purpose and agenda which unites his adventures as actor-manager of Smock Alley Theatre Dublin with his pioneering campaigns in the fields of oratory, elocution and lexicography. Infused with civic republican zeal (derived in part from close reading of Montesquieu and an admiration for native North American culture) Sheridan believed that humanity in general and Anglophones in particular suffered from a cultural and political enervation as a result of the cultivation of written language at the expense of spoken language. It is argued that 'republicanism' functioned more as a figure of political virtue than as a preferred mode of government. Enjoying particular success in Edinburgh with his public lectures, Sheridan sought to unify the peoples of Britain and Ireland by making the principles of elocution available to all, effectively de-centralising the linguistic claims of metropolitan centre. The Sheridan who emerges from this study is a phonocentric obsessive who left an abiding mark on the future of both acting and speech-making, but whose limitations are equally interesting and influential. In seeking to tame the riotous eighteenth-century stage, he anticipated (unknowingly) a far more passive 'cinematic' form of spectator entertainment (accelerated by his mentorship of the great Sarah Siddons, arguably the first player to be experienced as a 'movie star'). His dogged focus on the quality rather than the content of political debate led to his being permanently estranged from the mainstream of Irish patriotic writing while his inability to engage the economics of cultural production produces a tragic-comic figure whose disasters are as deserving of scrutiny as his successes. His genuine successes meanwhile include dignifying the profession of theatre player in a way that only Garrick could rival, helping to democratize oratory throughout the English speaking world, as well as helping to establish a continuity of specifically Irish eloquence that has subsequently become a key strand in Irish nationalist practice. Despite being a member of the British Establishment in Ireland, his patriotic pedagogy would have long-lasting, unanticipated and radical consequences. The idea of making patriotic speeches that evoke the memory of previous patriotic speeches may be Sheridan's most important and explosive contribution to his native country.
Download or read book Thomas Sheridan of Smock Alley written by Esther K. Sheldon and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of Thomas Sheridan's career as theater manager has been based on biographies written by his contemporaries, on 18th-century newspapers and pamphlets, and on letters written to and by Sheridan. The author also gives us much new information about Sheridan’s relations with David Garrick. In an appendix, the author has included a Smock-Alley Calendar, giving a daily record of performances and casts. Most of the material in the Calendar has not been collected before and should be invaluable to theater historians. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book A Summer Story written by Thomas Buchanan Read and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Critical Companion to Jonathan Swift written by Paul J. DeGategno and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive alphabetical reference to the life and work of Jonathan Swift.
Download or read book Memoirs of Women Writers Part I Volume 1 written by Anna M Fitzer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a review of the autobiographical account Alicia LeFanu, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Frances Sheridan, which sheds light on the controversial role of the female writers in the early nineteenth century.
Download or read book The Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Dramas, Poems, Translations, Speeches, Unfinished Sketches, and Ana In few families can the heritage of genius be more easily traced than in that of the wit, orator, poet, and dramatist, Richard Brinsley Sheridan. His grandfather, Dr. Thomas Sheridan, was educated by a relative, the deprived Bishop of Kilmore, at Trinity College, Dublin, where he distinguished himself in the classics. Having taken holy orders, he became one of the chaplains to the Lord-Lieutenant, and set up a school in Dublin, which for some time produced him nearly £1000 a year. Naturally careless and extravagant, he indulged his inclinations for the pleasures of the table to such an excess that his duties were neglected, his pupils gradually diminished, and at length his once flourishing academy became worthless. After declining the mastership of the grammar-school at Armagh, his friend, Dean Swift, procured him a living in the south of Ireland, producing a moderate income. At his installation, he imprudently preached a sermon on the 1st of August (the anniversary of the accession of the House of Hanover), from the text, "Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book William Hazlitt cont Laman Blanchard Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Thomas Sheridan written by Peter George Patmore and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jonathan Swift s Word Book written by A. C. Elias Jr. and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appearing for this first time in print, Word-Book is Swift’s dictionary of words and definitions for his protégé Esther Johnson. The volume includes photographs from and a transcript of the original book. Supplementing the transcript are the editors notations showing Swift’s corrections in Johnson’s text, essays comparing Swift’s dictionary to others available at that time and exploring the social and psychological milieu in which it was written, and detailed appendices.
Download or read book The Works of Jonathan Swift containing additional Letters Tracts and Poems not hitherto published with notes and a life of the author by Walter Scott Esq written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strathallan written by Anna M Fitzer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel, which addresses central themes of adultery, obsession and inheritance. It follows the fortunes of Matilda Melbourne who displays virtue, delicacy and an unwavering commitment to the sometimes ruthless demands of parental authority.
Download or read book Sheridan s and Henderson s Practical Method of Reading and Reciting English Poetry written by Thomas Sheridan and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thomas Sheridan a Discourse Being Introductory to His Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language written by Thomas Sheridan and published by Los Angeles : William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California. This book was released on 1969 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sheridan s and Henderson s practical method of reading and reciting English Poetry elucidated by a variety of examples Intended as a necessary introduction to Dr Enfield s Speaker etc written by Thomas SHERIDAN (M.A., Teacher of Elocution.) and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
