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James Arbuckle: Selected Works

James Arbuckle: Selected Works

Holmes, Richard

Hardcover

Letters & EssaysLiterary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 1611485533
ISBN13: 9781611485530
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: Nov 21 2013
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

James Arbuckle (c.1700-1742), poet and essayist, was born in Belfast to a Presbyterian merchant family of Scottish origin and educated at Glasgow University (1717-1723). In Glasgow, his poetry, influenced by Pope and the Latin classics, won praise from leading members of Scotland's literary and political establishment, including Allan Ramsay. In 1723 he moved to Dublin, producing under the name Hibernicus Ireland's first literary journal, in collaboration with a group of young Whig intellectuals forming the Molesworth circle. Heaimed at first to avoid politics, but in the highly politicized Dublin of Dean Swift that proved impossible. He was satirized by members of Swift's circle and responded with the ironic Panegyric on the Rev Dean Swift. His later work, especially The Tribune, developed a radical and anticlerical critique of contemporary Ireland, in which Swift was represented more as Church Tory than Irish patriot.

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