The Poems Of Thomas Sheridan

Author : Thomas Sheridan
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874134957
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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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complete poetic works, including those published as broadsides or in contemporary journals and those contained in unpublished letters and manuscripts.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

Author : Patrick Delany
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874139389
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Conrad Brunstorm
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611480396
Total Pages : 169 pages
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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.

Author : Esther K. Sheldon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400876222
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 748 pages
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Download or read book The Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Persius
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
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Download or read book The Satires of Persius, Translated Into English by Thomas Sheridan written by Persius and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Buchanan Read
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
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Download or read book A Summer Story written by Thomas Buchanan Read and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul J. DeGategno
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438108516
Total Pages : 481 pages
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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.

Author : Jonathan Swift
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
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Download or read book Poems written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter George Patmore
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
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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: