Life
1709-1785 [var. 1781, Cabinet]; b. Blarney, Co, Cork; ed. TCD;
published poetry from 1730s incl. Abelard and Eloisa (Dublin
1730), and answer to Alexander Pope; engaged in literary skirmishes with William
Dunkin, assisted by Charles Carthy; issued A Prospect of Poetry
(Dublin 1743), praised by James Thompson, and reprinted with 338 subscriptions,
Dublin 1770, including verse to Thompson; curate of Ballinaboy 1744-55;
Poems (Cork 1778); later styled ‘the mad parson’ and
deemed to be alcoholic. RR CAB PI FDA OCIL.
Works
Abelard and Eloisa (Dublin 1730); A Prospect of Poetry (Dublin
1743). COMM, Richard Ryan, Biographia Hibernica: Irish Worthies
(1821), Vol. II, p.60-62, as De la Cour, or De la Court, James.
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Criticism
Bryan Coleborne, ‘"They Sate in Counterview", Anglo-Irish
Verse in the Eighteenth Century’, in Hyland and Sammells, Irish
Writing, Exile and Subversion (1991), pp.45-63.
‘Poetry and legendary Ballads of the South of Ireland, in Journal of the Cork Hist. and Arch. Society (1894), p.270.
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Notes
British Library holds Poems comprising ‘A Prospect of Poetry’,
‘To Mr. Thomson on his Seasons’, Abelard to Eloisa’, and
other poems (Thomas White, Cork 1778); Prospect of Poetry (John Harris,
Cork 1807); Prospect ... [ded.] to John, Earl of Cork, with a poem to
Mr. Thomson, 3rd edn. (Corke [sic]: Thomas Lord 1770).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)