Samuel Ferguson - The Literary Achievement

This book provides a critical assessment and examination of the prose and poetry of Ireland's Samuel Ferguson. It presents a clear understanding of the shape and purpose of Ferguson's career as a writer, which extended over half a century. The scholarly sources from which Ferguson extracted many of his themes are carefully examined, as are the times during which Ferguson lived and wrote. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Irish literature, and the politics and history of nineteenth century Ireland. CONTENTS Introduction; Early Periodical Writings; Hibernian Nights' Entertainments^R and Other Fiction; The 1840s: A New Beginning; Lays of the Western Gael and Other Poems I; Lays of the Western Gael and Other Poems II; Congal; Poems; Passing On; Notes; Samuel Ferguson: A Chronology; A Checklist of Samuel Ferguson's Published Writings; Bibliography; Index^R. Irish Literary Studies Series No. 39.

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By Peter Denman

Product details

• Authors: Peter Denman, Denman Peter
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.1990
• EAN: 9780389209270
• ISBN: 978-0-389-20927-0
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Women writers; Irish Literacy Studies Series; Women Writers; Irish Literacy Studies Series; Irish Literacy Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism