The Book of Irish Poetry. E-book. Formato PDF Alfred Perceval Graves   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Of anthologies of Irish verse there have been many. Miss Charlotte Brooke's "Irish Poetry," a volume of translations of her own from the Irish, led the way in the year 1789, and was followed by Hardiman's "Irish Minstrelsy," in 1831, with metrical translations by Thomas Furlong, Henry Grattan Curran, and John D'Alton. Both these volumes contained the Irish originals, as well as the translations from them, and both volumes were extremely valuable for their preservation of those originals, but suffered from the over ornate, and, indeed, often extremely artificial English verse into which they were translated. Highly finished that verse undoubtedly was; here and there as fine as much of Macpherson's Ossian. But it was, as a rule, as untrue a presentment in English verse of Irish Gaelic poetry as Pope's version of the Iliad and Dryden's translation of the Aeneid are untrue expressions of the spirit and form of the Greek and Latin originals.

Poems of Sir Samuel Ferguson. E-book. Formato PDF Alfred Perceval Graves   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

"Strong Son of Fergus, with thy latest breathThou hast lent a joy unto the funeral knell,Welcoming with thy whispered 'All is well'The awful aspect of the Angel Death:As strong in life, thou couldst not brook to shunThe heat and burthen of the fiery day,Fronting defeat with stalwart undismay,And wearing meekly honours stoutly won.Pure lips, pure hands, pure heart were thine, as ayeErin demanded from her bards of old,And therefore on thy harp-strings of pure goldHas waked once more her high heroic lay.What shoulders now shall match the mighty foldOf Ossian's mantle? Thou hast passed away."

The Poems of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. E-book. Formato PDF Alfred Perceval Graves   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

When in the year 1880 I wrote a memoir of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, as a Preface to his "Purcell Papers," published by Bentley and Son, I was not aware that, besides being the author of the Irish poems contained in that collection of Irish stories and of the celebrated "Shamus O'Brien," Le Fanu had anonymously contributed half-a-dozen other poems to the Dublin University Magazine between the years 1863 and 1866; two of which, "The Legend of the Glaive," and "Beatrice," exhibit Le Fanu's genius in a new and unexpected light. They show him to have been capable of dramatic and lyrical creation on a distinctly higher plane than he had hitherto reached, although the forms in which the drama and the legend are cast are clearly experimental and not always successful.