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George Darley (1795–1846) was an Irish poet, novelist, literary critic, and author of mathematical texts. Friends with such literary luminaries as Charles Lamb, Thomas Carlyle, and John Clare, [1] he was considered by some to be on a level with Tennyson in “poetic possibilities” in the 1840s, [2] but in the words of famous literary critic ...
George Darley (born 1795, Dublin, Ire.—died Nov. 23, 1846, London, Eng.) was a poet and critic little esteemed by his contemporaries but praised by 20th-century writers for his intense evocation, in his unfinished lyrical epic Nepenthe (1835), of a symbolic dreamworld. Long regarded as unreadable, this epic came to be admired in the 20th ...
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Irish poet and mathematician George Darley was born in Dublin and earned a BA at Trinity College. He settled in London in the early 1820s. Though he did not receive significant critical acclaim during his lifetime, he gained recognition in the 20th century for his linguistic and metrical inventiveness. His poetry includes The Errors of Ecstacie ...
George Darley was an Irish poet, novelist, and critic of the Romantic period. While he achieved some contemporary success, particularly for his lyrical drama Sylvester Daggerwood, he was largely overlooked in his lifetime. Darley's work has experienced a revival of interest in recent decades, with scholars and readers rediscovering the unique ...
Sep 4, 2020 · The Life and Poetry of George Darley. Donald J. Lange. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Sep 4, 2020 - Poetry - 631 pages. This book is a monumental work on the late Romantic Irish poet, George Darley, with a scholarly edition of his complete poetry and a new biography. The text of each poem is meticulously edited from manuscript and printed sources.
George Darley was an Irish poet, mathematician, novelist, playwright and critic. He was born sometime during the year 1795 in Dublin into very comfortable circumstances. The family were connected by marriage to the Guinness brewing dynasty and were of sufficient financial means to own a house in the country, in County Wicklow.
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The Life and Poetry of George Darley. This book is a monumental work on the late Romantic Irish poet, George Darley, with a scholarly edition of his complete poetry and a new biography. The text of each poem is meticulously edited from manuscript and printed sources. For the first time, Darley is established as a translator of the First Book of ...
