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The Collected Poems of Laurence Whyte (Hardcover)
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The Collected Poems of Laurence Whyte (Hardcover)
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Though his name might not be familiar to many twenty-first century
readers, Laurence Whyte (d.1753) is an important missing link in
eighteenth-century Ireland's literary and musical histories. A
rural poet who established himself in Dublin as a teacher of
mathematics and as an active member (and poetic chronicler) of the
much admired and supported Charitable Musical Society, Whyte was a
poet of considerable talent and dexterity, and his body of work
yields a wealth of insight into the intersecting cultures of his
time and place. Published in 1740 and 1742, Whyte's writing, by
turns humorous and poignant, insightful and nostalgic, straddled
the worlds of Gaelic and Anglo-Irish, of the rural midlands and the
capital, of Catholic and Protestant. Some of the dualities explored
in his verse were present, to varying extents, in the work of
Jonathan Swift and Oliver Goldsmith. In matters poetical, political
and cultural, Whyte is an important, though as yet neglected and
unstudied, figure. This edition, comprehensively introduced and
annotated, retrieves him from that neglect.
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