Life
1832-1916 [Stopford Augustus Brooke]; b. 14 Nov., Glendoen Manse [var.
Glendowan], nr. Letterkenny, Co. Donegal; he was the elder cousin of Alice
Stopford Green; ed. TCD, BA, 1856; ord. 1857; MA, 1862; chaplain to Empress
Frederick in Berlin, 1863-65; issued Life and Letters of F. W. Robertson
of Brighton, 1865; appt. minister St. James’s York St. London, 1866-76;
chaplain in ordinary to Victoria, 1872; other livings incl. embassy in
Berlin; became Unitarian, 1880; Life and Letters of Frederick Robertson
(1865); Primer of English Literature (1876); seceded from Church
of England, 1880; acted as Unitarian minister, Bedford Chapel, Bloomsbury,
until it was pulled down in 1894; The History of Early English Literature
(2 vols, 1892), treating the subject down to the accession of Alfred;
gave inaugural lecture to Irish Literary Society, London, on ‘The
Need and Use of Getting Irish Literature into the English Tongue’
(Bloomsbury House, 11 March, 1893), deferred on account of controversy
in Dublin and pronoucing that an Irish national poetry would ‘become
not only Irish, but also alive to the interests and passions of universal
humanity’; ed. with T. W. Rolleston A Treasury of Irish Poetry
in the English Tongue (1900); subject to scathing attack by D. P. Moran (The Leader, 22 Dec. 1900); d. Ewhurst, Surrey; he is cited in Saintsbury’s Short History of English Literature (1922); an obituary appeared in Irish Book Lover (April & May 1916), cites numerous works including A History of English Literature (1894), with high commendation for A Treasury (1900). DNB JMC TAY DBIV
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Works
Life and Letters of F. W. Robertson, 2 vols. (London 1865; 1866, 1868.
1872; 1873), and Do. [in German as] Friedrich Wilhelm Robertson: Sein
Lebensbild in Briefen, Nach S. A. Brooke und F. Arnold; Nebst einem Anhang
religiöser Reden, Mit einem [...] Vorwort von E. Frommel,
&c., (Gotha 1888), xvi, 434pp.; Theology in the English Poets:
Cowper, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Burns (London: H. S. King &
Co. 1874), vii, 339pp., and Do. (London: J. M. Dent & Sons: NY: E.
P. Dutton & Co. 1910), vii, 275pp.; [Primer to] English
Literature (London: Macmillan 1876); also Naturalism in English
Poetry [?2nd Edn.] (London: J. M. Dent & Sons 1920; 1922), ),
254pp. Poems (1880); Dove Cottage (1890); The History
of Early English Literature (2 vols, 1892); Tennyson: His Art and
Relation to Modern Life (1894); English Literature from the Beginnings
to the Norman Conquest (1898); The Need and Use of Getting Irish
Literature into the English Tongue: An Address (London: T. Fisher
Unwin 1895; Coercion, Concession and Home Rule (London: National
Press Agency [n.d.]); ed., with T. W. Rolleston, A Treasury of Irish
Poetry in the English Tongue (London: Smith Elder & Co.; NY: Macmillan
1900; 2nd edn. Smith Elder 1915; revised edn. NY: Macmillan 1932); The
Poetry of Robert Browning (1902); On Ten Plays of Shakespeare (1905);
The Life Superlative (1906).
Bibliographical details, Stopford A. Brooke and T. W. Rolleston, eds., A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue; London; Smith, Elder, & Co. 1900) [15 Waterloo Place]; ded. to Sir Charles Gavan Duffy / among whose many services to Ireland/was the publication of the / first worthy collection of Irish national poetry / the editors, with deep respect / dedicate this volume.’ Stopford A. Brooke, Introduction, [vii]-xxiv [see under Quotations, infra]. BOOK I: Introduction; anonymous poems, The Boyne Water, Willie Reilly, The Night that Larry was Stretched, et al.]; 576pp. and index. BOOK II: William Drennan; Curran; RB Sheridan; GN Reynolds; Moore; Wolfe; Luke Aylmer Connolly; Marg. Power; Darley; Lover [intro. notice by DJ O’Donoghue]; Lever; Mahony (Fr. Prout); Waller; Carleton; Griffin [intro. notice by Sigerson]; Callanan [notice by Sigerson]; Edward Walsh [notice by Hyde as Croaibhin Aobhinn]; Fox; J. Banim [notice by DJO’D]. BOOK II: Poets of the Nation, intro. Rolleston; Davis; Fazer; John O’hagan; Wm B McBurney [Croppy]; Ingram; MacDermott; RD Williams; Ellen Mary Patrick Downing; AG Geoghegan; Denny Lane; Mary Kelly; John Keegan; MJ Barry; M Torney; T D’Arcy McGee; DF McCarthy; Michael Doheny; Lady Wilde; James McCarroll; John Savage; John Walsh; D. MacAleese; JS le Fanu; Charles Kickham [intro notice by Jhn O’Leary]; RD Joyce; JK Casey; Ellen O’Leary; TC Irwin; Lady Dufferin; Boucicault; TD Sullivan; Fanny Parnell. BOOK IV: Mangan [intro. notice L Johnson]; Ferguson [intro. AP Graves]. BOOK V, Aubrey de Vere [intro. Prof. W. Macneile]; Whitley Stokes; Todhunter [intro. GF Savage-Armstrong]; Allingham [intro. Lionel Johnson]; SA Brooke; AP Graves [intro. GA Greene]; Francis A Fahy; Malachy Ryan; P J Coleman; P J McCall; Lady Gilbert; K. Tynan-Hinkson [intro. G. A. Greene]; Rose Kavanagh; Alice Furlong; Jane Barlow [intro. Greene]; Dora Sigerson [intro. Hyde]; SL Gwynn; Frances Wynne; ‘Moira O’Neill; Douglas Hyde; TW Rolleston; Thomas Boyd; L. Johnson [intro. Yeats]; Nora Hopper [intro. notice Yeats]; Althea Gyles [intro. Yeats]; William Larminie [intro. AE]; Standish J O’Grady; AE [intro. Yeats]; Yeats [intro Rolleston]. Bk VI, Aubrey de Vere [intro Macneile]; Ingram; Wm. Alexander; Cecil Francis Alexander; Edward Dowden [intro. Macneile]; Edmund j Armstrogn; G F Savage-Armstrong [intro. Rolleston]; William Wilkins [intro. GF Savage-Armstrong]; Geroge Arthur Greene; Wm Knox Johnson; W. E. H. Lecky; Kottabistai [intro. Savage-Armstrong]; CP Mulvany; John Martley; Arthur Palmer; Percy Somers Payne.
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- L. P. Jacks, The Life and Letters of Stopford Brooke (1917); Irish Book Lover Vol. VII, (April-May 1916), p.165;
- Leon Ó Bróin, Protestant Nationalists: The Stopford Connection (1985). QRY, L. P. Jacks, The Life and Letters of Stopford Brooks [sic, Whelan Cat. 32].
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Notes
Justin McCarthy, ed., Irish Literature (Washington: Catholic
Univ. of America 1904), bio-data: b. Letterkenny, Co. Donegal; ed. Kidderminster,
Kingstown, and TCD; ord. 1857; chaplain to the British Embassy in Berlin,
and several English livings; Life of D. Robertson [sic, in notice],
poems, and religious works; he turned to Unitarianism and was widely known
as a teacher of ‘light and leading’. McCarthy gives an extract
from Frederick William Robertson [sic in extract] (‘So lived and
died, leaving behind him a great legacy of thought, a noble gentleman,
a Christian minister. to the tenderness of a true woman he ajoined the
strong will and undaunted courage of a true man ...’); also some
short poems, ‘The Earth and Man’; ‘A Moment’; ‘Desert
is Life’.
D. J. O’Donoghue, Poets of Ireland (Dublin: Hodges Figgis 1912), Riquet of the Tuft (1880), love drama in prose and verse, 3 acts, anon.; ed., Christian Hymns (1881), for his own congregation; Poems (Lon. 1888); O’Donoghue calls his Treasury (1900), with Rolleston, as ‘perhaps the best collection of English verse by Irish poets that has yet been made.’
British Library holds A Discourse on War [...] Reprinted from the ‘Hibbert Journal,’ &c., pp.18. British & Foreign Unitarian Association: London [1916] 12o. [2] A Memorial Sermon on the Funeral of the Queen, &c., pp.15. Truslove, Hanson & Comba: London, 1901. 8o. [3] A Study of Clough, Arnold, Rossetti and Morris. With an introduction on the course of poetry from 1822 to 1852. pp.260. Sir I. Pitman & Sons:; London, 1908. 8o. [4] Children’s Holiday Fund: a sermon, &c., pp.16. R. Clay & Sons: London & Bungay [1891] 8o. [5] Christ in Modern Life: sermons [...] Second edition. Fifth edition. Sixth edition. pp.viii. 408. H. S. King & Co.: London, 1872. 8o. pp.; viii. 408. H. S. King & Co.: London, 1873. 8o. pp.viii. 408. H. S. King & Co.: London, 1873. 8o. [6] Christian Hymns. [By S. A. Brooke] [Another issue] Christian Hymns [...] Edited and arranged by the Rev. Stopford A. Brooke. pp.230.; Women’s Printing Society: London, 1881. 8o[...]. Women’s Printing Society: London, 1881. 8o [...]. [7] Christian Hymns. Edited and arranged by the Rev. S. A. Brooke. [A reissue, with an index]. pp.358. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1891. 8o.; pp.362. London, 1893. 8o. [8] Christianity and Social Problems.. [9] Clough, Arnold, Rossetti, and Morris: a study, etc. (Second edition.) [With portraits] [Another edition] Four Poets. Clough, Arnold, Rossetti, Morris. pp.296. Sir I. Pitman & Sons: London, 1910. 8o. pp.296. Duckworth & Co.: London, 1913. 8o. [10] Die Kriegserklärung. Predigt, &c., pp.16. München, 1870. 8o. [11] ‘Die to Live.’ Selections from Stopford Brooke, arranged by [...] Olive Jacks, etc. [With a portrait]. pp.215. Hodder & Stoughton: London [1924] 8o. [12] Dove Cottage. Wordsworth’s home from 1800-1808, etc. [A reissue] Dove Cottage, etc. [With a plate]. pp.75. Macmillan & Co.: London; & New York, 1890. 8o. pp.76. London, 1920. 8o. [13] English Literature. [Another issue] L.P. [Another edition] (Third edition.) Partly rewritten and largely revised and corrected.; [A reissue] L.P. [A reissue] [Another edition] With chapters on English literature, 1832-1892, and on American literture, by George; R. Carpenter. [Another edition] With a chapter on literature since 1832 by George Sampson. pp.167. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1876. 16o.; London, 1876. 8o. pp.vi. 209. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1880. 8o. pp.191. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1896. 16o. London, 1897. 8o. London,; 1900. 16o. pp.viii. 358. Copp, Clark Co.: Toronto, 1901. 8o. pp.251. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1924. 12o. [14] English Literature from the Beginning to the Norman Conquest. pp.ix. 340. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1898. 8o. [15] Eternal Punishment, etc.-The Resurrection of Jesus.-Sinful & Unsinful Wrath, &c. [1883, 85]. [16] Freedom in the Church of England. Six sermons, &c., pp.vi. 109. H. S. King & Co.: London, 1871. 8o. [17] God and Christ. Sermons, &c., pp.359. Philip Green: London, 1894. 8o. [18] Jesus and Modern Thought. Discourses, &c., pp.58. Philip Green: London, 1894. 8o. [19] King Alfred, as educator of his people and man of letters [...] With an appendix of passages from the writings of Alfred, selected and translated from; the Old English by Kate M. Warren. pp.xiii. 56. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1901. 8o. [20] Loyalty. A sermon, &c., pp.22. Printed for private circulation: London [1871] 8o. [21] Milton. [Another copy] Milton. L.P. pp.167. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1879. 8o. London, 1879. 8o. [22] Naturalism in English Poetry. [With a portrait] [Another edition]. pp.vii. 310. J. M. Dent & Sons: London & Toronto, 1920. 8o. pp.254. J.; M. Dent & Sons: London & Toronto [1922] 16o. [23] Notes on the Liber Studiorum of J. M. W. Turner [...] With illustrations. pp.xix. 266. Autotype Co.: London, 1885. 8o. [24] On Ten Plays of Shakespeare [...] Second impression. Sixth impression. pp.311. A. Constable & Co.: London, 1905. 8o. London, 1919. 8o. [25] Poems. pp.viii. 284. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1888. 8o. [26] Précis de l’histoire de la littérature anglaise [...] Traduction française [...] accompagnée de résumés historiques, par M. George Elwall. pp.224. Paris,; [1892] 8o. [27] Reasons for Secession from the Church of England, etc. (Points of doctrine.-The Prayer Book.). 2 pt. British & Foreign Unitarian Association:; London, 1891. 8o. [28] Religion in Literature and Religion in Life. Two lectures. pp.96. Philip Green: London, 1900. 8o. [29] Second series. pp.viii. 421. H. S. King & Co.: London, 1875. 8o. [30] Sermons [...] preached in Bedford Chapel, 1883. 2 pt. For private circulation: London [1884] 8o.; . [31] Sermons [...] Preached in Bedford Chapel, 1883 (1884, 1885). 31 pt. Napier: London, 1883-85. 8o. [32] Sermons [...] preached in Bedford Chapel, 1884 (1885). [London:] Napier [1884, 85]. no. 121-182. 22 cm.. [33] Sermons preached in St. James’s Chapel, York Street, London [...] Second edition. Sixth edition. Seventh edition. pp.ix. 346. Hamilton,; Adams & Co.: London, 1869. 8o. pp.ix. 346. H. S. King & Co.: London, 1871. 8o. pp.ix. 346. H. S. King & Co.: London, 1873. 8o. [34] Short Sermons. pp.viii. 331. Macmillan & Co.: London & New York, 1892. 8o. [35] Studies in Poetry. [With a portrait]. pp.253. Duckworth & Co.: London, 1907. 8o. [36] Sunshine and Shadow: meditations from the sermons of [...] S. A. Brooke, etc. [With a portrait]. pp.215. David Stott: London, 1886. 8o. [37] Ten More Plays of Shakespeare. [A reissue]. pp.313. Constable & Co.: London, 1913. 8o. London, 1919. 8o. [38] Tennyson. His art and relation to modern life. (Second edition.) [With portraits]. pp.vi. 490. Isbister & Co.: London, 1894. 8o. 2 vol.; Isbister & Co.: London, 1900. 8o. [39] The Declaration of War. A sermon preached [...] July 17, 1870. pp.20. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1870. 8o. [40] The Development of Theology, as illustrated in English poetry from 1780 to 1830. (The Essex Hall Lecture, 1893). pp.55. Philip Green: London,; 1893. 8o.; . [41] The Early Life of Jesus. Sermons, &c., pp.260. David Stott: London, 1888. 8o. [42] The Fight of Faith. Sermons [...] Second edition. pp.vii. 417. H. S. King & Co.: London, 1877. 8o. [43] The Good Fight of Faith. A welcome to the ministry.. [44] The Gospel of Joy. pp.378. Isbister & Co.: London, 1898. 8o. [45] The gospel of joy [...] Second edition. London: Isbister & Co., 1899. pp.378. 20 cm.. [46] The History of Early English Literature. Being the history of English poetry from its beginnings to the accession of King AElfred. 2 vol. Macmillan &; Co.: London & New York, 1892. 8o. [47] The Inaugural Address to the Shelley Society. [Another copy]. pp.22. Privately printed: London, 1886. 8o. [48] The Kingdom of God Within. A sermon, etc. [Another edition]. pp.24. Ulster Unitarian Christian Association: Belfast, 1901. 8o. pp.22.; British & Foreign Unitarian Association: London [1902] 8o. [49] The Kingship of Love. pp.vii. 351. Isbister & Co.: London, 1903. 8o. [50] The Late Rev. F. D. Maurice. A sermon, &c., pp.31. H. S. King & Co.: London, 1872. 8o.; . [51] The Life Superlative. [With a portrait]. pp.xii. 314. Sir I. Pitman & Sons: London, 1906. 8o. [52] The Moral Aspect of Home Rule. A lecture, &c., pp.14. Cassell & Co.: London [1886] 8o. [53] The Need and Use of Getting Irish Literature into the English Tongue. An address, etc. L.P. pp.66. T. Fisher Unwin: London, 1893. 4o. [54] The New Aspect of Christian Theology. A sermon, &c., pp.21. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1873. 8o. [55] The Old Testament and Modern Life. [Sermons]. pp.352. Isbister & Co.: London, 1896. 8o. [56] The Onward Cry, and other sermons. [With a portrait]. pp.viii. 385. Duckworth & Co.: London, 1911. 8o. [57] The Poetry of Robert Browning. (Second edition.) [With portraits]. pp.447. Isbister & Co.: London, 1902. 8o. 2 vol. Sir I. Pitman & Sons:; London, 1905. 8o. [58] The Sea-Charm of Venice. pp.113. Duckworth & Co.: London, 1907. 8o. [59] The Ship of the Soul, and other papers. pp.118. J. Clarke & Co.: London, 1898. 8o. [60] The Spikenard, and other sermons [...] Introduction by J. H. Weatherall. pp.138. Lindsey Press: London, 1919. 8o.; . [61] The Spirit of the Christian Life. Sermons [...] Second edition. pp.xi. 363. Kegan Paul & Co.: London, 1881. 8o. [62] The Story of Nain. 1885.. [63] The Unity of God and Man, and other sermons, &c., pp.223. David Stott: London, 1886. 8o. [64] Theology in the English Poets. Cowper-Coleridge-Wordsworth and Burns. Second edition. [Another edition]. pp.vii. 339. H. S. King &; Co.: London, 1874. 8o. pp.vii. 339. H. S. King & Co.: London, 1874. 8o. pp.xii. 275. J. M. Dent & Sons: London; E. P. Dutton & Co.: New York [1910] 8o[...]. [65] What Think Ye of Christ? A sermon, &c., pp.16. British & Foreign Unitarian Association: London [1884] 8o. [66] A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English tongue. Edited by S. A. Brooke and T. W. Rolleston. pp.xliii. 578. Smith, Elder & Co.: London, 1900. 8o. [67] The Golden Book of Coleridge (With an introduction by Stopford A. Brooke.). pp.xii. 289. J. M. Dent & Co.: London; E. P. Dent & Co.: London;; E. P. Dutton & Co.: New York [1906] 8o[...]. [68] The Golden Book of Coleridge. Edited with an introduction by Stopford A. Brooke. pp.xii. 289. J. M. Dent & Co.: London, 1895. 8o. [69] Last Studies [...] With a poem by Stopford A. Brooke, and an appreciation by Henry James. [With a portrait]. pp.xxiii. 223. William Heinemann:; London, 1897. 8o. [70] The Rev. Stopford Brooke’s reason for his total abandoment of orthodoxy. A sermon, &c., pp.16. J. Robertshaw: Sheffield, 1880. 8o.; . [71] All Religion supernatural, M. Müller v. the Anti-religionists, and a popular preacher put to the proof (s. Brooke on the ground and growth of faith).; Articles extracted from ‘The Study and Homiletic Monthly.’. [London?] 1879. 8o. [72] Life and Letters of Stopford Brooke. [With illustrations]. pp.ix. vi. 748. John Murray: London, 1917. 8o. [73] With the Wild Geese. [Verses] With an introduction by Stopford A. Brooke. pp.xxvi. 95. Isbister & Co.: London, 1902. 8o. [74] Old Paris. Ten etchings by C. Méryon. Reproduced on copper by the autogravure process, and accompanied with preface and illustrative notes by; Stopford A. Brooke. Autotype Co.: London, 1887. fol.. [75] Future Probation: a symposium on the question ‘Is Salvation possible after Death?’ By S. Leathes [...] J. Cairns [...] E. White, S. A. Brooke [...] R.; Littledale [...] D. MacEwan [...] and others. pp.324. 1886.. [76] Riquet of the Tuft. A love drama. [By Stopford A. Brooke. In three acts, in prose and verse]. pp.172. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1880. 8o. [77] Friedrich Wilhelm Robertson. Sein Lebensbild in Briefen. Nach S. A. Brooke und F. Arnold. Nebst einem Anhang religiöser Reden. Mit einem [...] Vorwort von E. Frommel, &c., pp.xvi. 434. Gotha, 1888. 8o. [78] Lectures, Addresses, and other literary remains. [...] A new edition. [Edited by Stopford A. Brooke]. London, 1876. 8o. [79] Life and Letters of F. W. Robertson [...] Edited by Stopford A. Brooke [...] With portraits. Second edition. 2 vol. London, 1865. 8o. new edition. 2 vol. London, 1866. 8o. Second edition. London, 1868. 8o. another edition London, 1872. 8o. another edition 2 vol. London, 1873. 8o. [80] The High Deeds of Finn, and other Bardic romances of ancient Ireland [...] With an introduction by Stopford A. Brooke [...] and with sixteen illustrations; by Stephen Reid. pp.lv. 214. George G. Harrap & Co.: London, 1910. 8o.; . [81] Epipsychidion. By P. B. Shelley. A type fac-simile reprint of the original edition [...] published in 1821. With an introduction by [...] Stopford A. Brooke; [...] and a note by A. C. Swinburne. Edited [with a bibliography] by R. A. Potts. pp.lxvi. 31. 1887.. [82] Poems from Shelley, selected and arranged by Stopford A. Brooke. [Another copy] L.P. pp.lxvi. 340. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1880.; 8o. [83] Stopford Brooke. New York: Twayne Publishers [1972]. pp.158. 20 cm.. [84] A Selection from the Liber Studiorum of J. M. W. Turner [...] For artists, art students, and amateurs. A drawing-book suggested by the writings of Mr.; Ruskin. With [...] introduction by F. Wedmore [...] notes by F. Short, and extracts from the writings of [...] Stopford A. Brooke, etc. [Edited by A. Ward]. 4; pt. [1890]. [85] Autotype Reproductions. The Liber Studiorum [...] edited by, and each plate accompanied with a critical notice by [...] Stopford Brooke, &c., The; Autotype Company: London, 1882, etc. obl. fol.. [86] The Liber Studiorum of J. M. W. Turner, R.A. Reproduced in facsimile by the autotype process from examples of the best states in possession of the; Rev. Stopford Brooke, M.A.; each plate accompanied with a critical notice by him. 2 vol. H. Sotheran & Co.: London, 1899. obl. fol.. [87] A Treasury of English Literature, from the beginning to the eighteenth century. Selected and arranged with translations and glossaries by Kate M.; Warren [...] With an introduction by Stopford A. Brooke. pp.lviii. 973. Archibald Constable & Co.: London, 1906. 8o. [88] Poems by William Wordsworth. Selected with an introduction by Stopford A. Brooke. Illustrated by Edmund H. New. London: Methuen & Co.,; 1907. pp.xliv, 327. 23 cm.. [89] Poems dedicated to national independence and liberty [...] With an introduction by Stopford A. Brooke. London: Isbister & Co., 1897. pp.96. 19; cm.
University of Ulster Library (Morris Collection) holds A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue [ANTH] (1900), 578pp.
The tripartite definition of Irish literature which appears in Daniel Corkery - as in James Joyce - was first formulated by Brooke in his Introduction to A Treasury of Irish Poetry (1900). According to this, the salient ingredients are Nationality (p.ixx), Religion, and Rebellion (xxi). The comparison with Corkery was first broached by Patrick Rafroidi in Irish Literature in English, The Romantic Period, 1789-1850, Vol. 1 (Gerrards Cross 1980).
W. B. Yeats writes, ‘The reader who would begin a serious study of modern Irish literature should do so with Mr. Stopford Brooke’s and Mr. Rolleston’s exhaustive anthology.’ (Concluding sentence of Preface attached to 1900 rev. edn. of Book of Irish Verse, 1st. edn. 1895.]
Matthew Arnold, half-heartedly endorsed Stopford Brooke’s A Primer of English Literature in a review: ‘To get to know the best in English literature and to know that best well, nothing can be more helpful to us than a guide that will show us, in clear view, the growth of our literature, its series of productions, and their relative value’. He also criticised Brooke for confusing periods of literature with periods of political history. (Quoted by Peter Keating, reviewing The Short History of English Literature (OUP [1994]), in Times Literary Supplement, 22 April 1994. Keating notes that the comparable work of Legouis and Cazamian appeared from Dent in 1926, while Legouis’s Short History of English Literature appeared in 1934.
Endpapers of E. M. Lynch, A Parish Providence: A Country Tale, with Introduction by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy (Dublin: Sealy Bryers & Walker; London: T. Fisher Unwin MDCCCXCIV [1894]), 154pp., with New Irish Library catalogue, 7pp. incl. as final page notice of Stopford A. Brooke, The Need and Use of Getting Irish Literature into the English tongue: an address by the Rev. Stopford A. Brooke at the inaugural meeting of the Irish Literary Society in London; 2nd edn., paper covers, 1s., with reviews: ‘A charming and suggestive piece of writing’ (Speaker); ‘an eloquent and persuasive plea’ (Times); ‘Is full of interest, not to Irishmen alone, but to all who have learned to know the beauties of old Irish literature, and who wish to have its genuine inspiration brought home to those who only speak English’ (Scotsman); ‘It is original, powerful, and patriotic, full of saving commonsense, and acute and learned literary criticism’ (Methodist Times). [Note that the advertisement date of the 2nd ed. suggests a publication date in 1894 or earlier for the first edn.]
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)