[de Vere, Aubrey] Cronin, Patrick J.

Aubrey de Vere, The Bard of Curragh Chase. A Portrait of His Life and Writings.

Askeaton, Askeaton Civic Trust, 1997. 15 cm x 21 cm. 232 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Very Rare !

Includes for example the following essays: The de Vere Family / The Early Years / Back to Curragh Chase and the Irish Famine / Religious Affairs / Poetry / etc.

Aubrey Thomas de Vere (10 January 1814 – 20 January 1902) was an Irish poet and critic.
Aubrey Thomas Hunt de Vere was born at Curraghchase House (now in ruins) at Curraghchase, Kilcornan, County Limerick, the third son of Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet (1788–1846) and his wife Mary Spring Rice, daughter of Stephen Edward Rice (d.1831) and Catherine Spring, of Mount Trenchard, County Limerick. He was a nephew of Lord Monteagle, a younger brother of Sir Stephen de Vere, 4th Baronet and a cousin of Lucy Knox. His sister Ellen married Robert O’Brien, the brother of William Smith O’Brien. In 1832, his father dropped the original surname ‘Hunt’ by royal licence, assuming the surname ‘de Vere’.

The characteristics of Aubrey de Vere’s poetry are high seriousness and a fine religious enthusiasm. His research in questions of faith led him to the Roman Catholic Church where in 1851 he was received into the Church by Cardinal Manning in Avignon. In many of his poems, notably in the volume of sonnets called St Peters Chains (1888), he made rich additions to devotional verse. For a few years he held a professorship, under Newman, in the Catholic University in Dublin.

In “A Book of Irish Verse,” W. B. Yeats described de Vere’s poetry as having “less architecture than the poetry of Ferguson and Allingham, and more meditation. Indeed, his few but ever memorable successes are enchanted islands in gray seas of stately impersonal reverie and description, which drift by and leave no definite recollection. One needs, perhaps, to perfectly enjoy him, a Dominican habit, a cloister, and a breviary.” (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Catalogue Irish History Seven – Irish Literature – Poetry – Music – Theatre · Irish Literature – 20th Century · Irish Literature – Rare
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780952665526
• Inventory Number: 73160AB

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