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by: Jeffrey Kahan, W. H. Ireland
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.6
EAN: 9780773462694
ISBN: 0773462694
Label: Edwin Mellen Press
Manufacturer: Edwin Mellen Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 375
Publication Date: December 30, 2004
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Studio: Edwin Mellen Press
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
William-Henry Ireland's footnote in history is secure: he is the boy who forged the 'lost' Shakespeare play Vortigern. The question is, should he be remembered for more than his Shakespearean tomfoolery? Ireland wrote a vast amount of poetry after his exposure, some of which was widely popular, yet to date, William-Henry Ireland's verse has received almost no attention and has, until now, never been collected, professionally edited, or even sampled for anthology. This volume samples Ireland's post- Shakespearean poetry, beginning with Ballads in Imitation of the Antient (1801) and concluding with his satirical Scribbleomania (1815). The introduction argues that Ireland deserves a place among the Romantics of his era. The volume includes a forward by Nick Groom, author of The Forger's Shadow. If W.H. Ireland is known at all, it is as the audacious forger of the Shakespearean manuscripts that briefly bewitched the literary world in the last years of the eighteenth century, culminating in a catastrophic premiere of the 'rediscovered' play Vortigern on 2 April, 1796. For over two centuries this escapade has condemned him on moral grounds to the anecdotal periphery of literary history, and consequently overshadowed the rest of his oftenflamboyant writing career. A reassessment of Ireland's work is well overdue, and this selection of his verse repositions him as a radical writer of the Romantic period. Dr. Nick Groom - University of Bristol (From the Foreword)
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