A memoir, based on his unpublished diaries and correspondence of Aubrey de Vere by his literary executor. The story of a long and rather uneventful life is told largely by the Irish poet himself, revealing his own mind and temperament, and giving graphic descriptions of contemporary great men, Gladstone, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Newman, Browning. His gradual change of religious belief which brought him from the English church to Rome, his work during the famine of 1846-7, and the service done for Ireland by his voice and pen, are given in detail.
“The editor has based his work on diaries and letters, and has spread a feast for the lover of literature where no crude surfeit reigns.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 189. Ag. ‘05. 180w. |
“Sufficient to give a true picture of the man himself. Yet not the least of the reader’s reward comes from his more intimate knowledge of a pure and unselfish life, lived largely in the service of his fellows; a poet who here reveals himself most fully as the patriot and friend.” Clark S. Northrup.
| + + | Dial. 38: 7. Ja. 1, ‘05. 1760w. |
“The literary workmanship is all that could be desired.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 25: sup. 39. Ap. ‘05. 360w. |
“Quite sustains his reputation as a master in the difficult and delicate art of the biographer.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 290. F. 25, ‘05. 1680w. |
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