The Poems of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Poems of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu PDF

Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-11-12

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9781519249432

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This collection brings together the complete poems of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, an Irish writer widely recognized as one of the fathers of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories." Three of his best-known works are Uncle Silas, Carmilla and The House by the Churchyard. In addition to M. R. James, several other writers have expressed strong admiration for Le Fanu's fiction. E. F. Benson stated that Le Fanu's stories "Green Tea," "The Familiar," and "Mr. Justice Harbottle" "are instinct with an awfulness which custom cannot stale, and this quality is due, as in The Turn of the Screw, to Le Fanu's admirably artistic methods in setting and narration." Benson added, " best work is of the first rank, while as a 'flesh-creeper' he is unrivalled. No one else has so sure a touch in mixing the mysterious atmosphere in which horror darkly breeds." Jack Sullivan has asserted that Le Fanu is "one of the most important and innovative figures in the development of the ghost story" and that Le Fanu's work has had "an incredible influence on the genre; regarded by M. R. James, E. F. Bleiler, and others as the most skillful writer of supernatural fiction in English."

The Poems of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Poems of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu PDF

Author: Alfred Perceval Graves

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-16

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 9781330584484

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Excerpt from The Poems of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu When in the year 1880 I wrote a memoir of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, as a Preface to his "Purcell Papers," published by Bentley and Son, I was not aware that, besides being the author of the Irish poems contained in that collection of Irish stories and of the celebrated "Shamus O'Brien," Le Fanu had anonymously contributed half-a-dozen other poems to the Dublin University Magazine between the years 1863 and 1866; two of which, "The Legend of the Glaive," and "Beatrice," exhibit Le Fanu's genius in a new and unexpected light. They show him to have been capable of dramatic and lyrical creation on a distinctly higher plane than he had hitherto reached, although the forms in which the drama and the legend are cast are clearly experimental and not always successful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Poems of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Classic Reprint)

The Poems of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Classic Reprint) PDF

Author: Alfred Perceval Graves

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-16

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9780266399469

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Excerpt from The Poems of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu When' in the year 1880 I wrote a memoir of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, as a Preface to his Purcell Papers, published by Bentley and Son, I was not aware that, besides being the author of the Irish poems contained in that collection of Irish stories and of the celebrated Shamus o'brien, Le Fardl' had anonymously contributed half-a-dozen other poems to the Dueliiz University Magazine between the years 1863 and 1866; two of which, The Legend of the Glaive, and Beatrice, ex bibit Le Fanu's genius in a new and unexpected light. They show him to have been capable of dramatic and lyrical creation on a distinctly higher plane than he had hitherto reached, although the forms in which the drama and the legend are cast are clearly experimental and not always successful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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