GRAVEYARD WALKING - A NIGHT-PIECE ON DEATH BY THOMAS PARNELL скачать в хорошем качестве

GRAVEYARD WALKING - A NIGHT-PIECE ON DEATH BY THOMAS PARNELL

While walking in a graveyard, I have decided to read to you A Night-Piece On Death by Thomas Parnell while strolling through Union Field Cemetery in Ridgewood, Queens. My apologies for the low audio on my voice, I am still learning how to use my new microphone. In a way though, it doesn't sound too bad being that it is set in a cemetery :) Occasionally, because of the voice that I have, I like to experiment by reading some prose. With Halloween around the corner I may well look to read some Halloween type poems. Perhaps I will search for some famous graves and then also film some graveyard footage while I am there for the poems. Thomas Parnell (b Dublin 11 September 1679 – d Chester 24 October 1718) was an Anglo-Irish poet and clergyman who was a friend of both Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. He was the son of Thomas Parnell of Maryborough, Queen's County (now Port Laoise, County Laois), a prosperous landowner who had been a loyal supporter of Cromwell during the English Civil War and moved to Ireland after the restoration of the monarchy. Thomas was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and collated archdeacon of Clogher in 1705. He however spent much of his time in London, where he participated with Pope, Swift and others in the Scriblerus Club, contributing to The Spectator and aiding Pope in his translation of The Iliad. He was also one of the so-called "Graveyard poets": his 'A Night-Piece on Death,' widely considered the first "Graveyard School" poem, was published posthumously in Poems on Several Occasions, collected and edited by Alexander Pope and is thought by some scholars to have been published in December 1721 (although dated in 1722 on its title page, the year accepted by The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature). It is said of his poetry, "it was in keeping with his character, easy and pleasing, enunciating the common places with felicity and grace." He died in Chester in 1718 on his way home to Ireland. His wife and children having died, his Laois estate passed to his brother John, a judge and MP in the Irish House of Commons and the ancestor of Charles Stewart Parnell. Oliver Goldsmith wrote a biography of Parnell which often accompanied later editions of Parnell's works.