Spring Life Lyrics and Australian Melodies / J Sheridan Moore - 1864 SIGNED

by Joseph Sheridan Moore

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Scarce title published 1864 Spring Life Lyrics and Australian Melodies, which is a collection of poems from the author. Inscribed in the front page by the author and dated 1871 Joseph Sheridan Moore (1828-1891), teacher, publicist and man of letters, migrated to Sydney in 1847, became a Benedictine monk and headmaster of Lyndhurst College, Glebe. Moore's literary output supplemented his teaching and coaching of aspirants for university honours in his own City College and in Randwick College and University Hall. He specialized in classics but also taught a liberal-progressive syllabus ranging from modern languages to geography and science. His writings were prolific: his Spring Life Lyrics (1864) was an anthology of light Romantic verse on conventional themes, and his essays in The Ethics of the Irish Under the Pentarchy (1872) aimed to recreate Irish prehistory and customs for Irish-Australians; his strange combination of the Romantic excesses of contemporary German and Irish writers sometimes shows a delicate touch and feeling that is more than mere sentiment. In the 1870s and 1880s he wrote many pamphlets and articles for such different publications as Archbishop Vaughan's Express and the Bulletin. In 1873 he had been declared bankrupt with debts of over £1000; his estate was not released until May 1874.

• Publisher: Reading & Welbank
• Year: 1864
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair

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