Excerpt from Moods and Memories There is an Irish accent runs through Ed mund Leamy's verse the gaiety, the wist fulness, the pathos, the eloquence of the Celt are there -the appealing Celtic cadence which is more than merely a cadence of speech, being, in fact, a cadence of the spirit behind the speech and putting its stamp upon the speech. One finds a strain of wistfulness in the work of many Irish writers of verse who are not really poets or rather, finds that they have been consciously striving for it. Mr. Leamy is a ...
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Excerpt from Moods and Memories There is an Irish accent runs through Ed mund Leamy's verse the gaiety, the wist fulness, the pathos, the eloquence of the Celt are there -the appealing Celtic cadence which is more than merely a cadence of speech, being, in fact, a cadence of the spirit behind the speech and putting its stamp upon the speech. One finds a strain of wistfulness in the work of many Irish writers of verse who are not really poets or rather, finds that they have been consciously striving for it. Mr. Leamy is a poet, and he speaks what is in him without straining or striving consciously for it; the ao cent that is native to his soul and to his lips works into his verse without his laboring for it or being, apparently, aware of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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