Samuel Lover: A Biographical Sketch with Selections from His Writings and Correspondence - Hardcover

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Vv Painter, Etcher, Lyric Poet, Musical-composer, Executant, Novelist, and Dramatist! Such an enumeration of amateur accomplishments, to say nothing of a formidable array of wellearned and acknowledged professional designations, seldom -v falls to the lot of one man. Yet these were, each and all, fairly vwon by the late Samuel Lover, a brilliant, modest, self reliant I rishman, who dowered with versatile genius and a capacity for work was every whit as good, genial, and lovable, as he was largely and rarely gifted. In any one of these walks, apart from the others, he occupied a position which would have been sufficient for ordinary fame. Although not now generally known to the public, his highest art achievements were his Miniature Portraits; for various reasons, however, it is chiefly through his charming and inimitable I rish peasant songs, with their unique blend of love, pathos, and humour, that his name will live. Materiel for this volume, relating to one whose cordial friendly intercourse with us was only severed by death, has been slowly accumulating in our hands, from time to time, during the last ten years. While preserving inviolate what is due to privacy, information has been gleaned, or exti acts given, from over sixty of Mr. Lover sletters addressed to the writer; other MS. correspondence, kindly placed at his disposal for this purpose, has also been carefully gone over. By permission of Mrs. Lover, ten poems, taken from a MS. volume left by Mr. Lover, are here presented for the firat time. Several posthumous Poems, prose Stories, and other extracts, are also, by her permission, taken fromM
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