Samuel Lover

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Excerpt from Samuel Lover: A Biographical Sketch With Selections From His Writings and Correspondence Painter, Etcher, Lyric Poet, Musical-composer, Executant, Novelist, and Dramatist! Such an enumeration of amateur accomplishments, to say nothing of a formidable array of well-earned and acknowledged professional designations, seldom falls to the lot of one man. Vet these were, each and all, fairly won by the late Samuel Lover, a brilliant, modest, self-reliant Irishman, who - dowered with versatile genius and a capacity for work - was every whit as good, genial, and lovable, as he was largely and rarely gifted. In any one of these walks, apart from the others, he occupied a position which would have been sufficient for ordinary fame. Although not now generally known to the public, his highest art achievements were his Miniature Portraits, for various reasons, however, it is chiefly through his charming and inimitable Irish peasant songs, - with their unique blend of love, pathos, and humour, - that bis name will live. Materiel for this volume, relating to one whose cordial friendly intercourse with us was only severed by death, has been slowly accumulating in our hands, from time to time, during the last ten years. "While preserving inviolate what is due to privacy, information has been gleaned, or extracts given, from over sixty of Mr. Lover's letters addressed to the writer, other MS. correspondence, kindly placed at his disposal for this purpose, has also been carefully gone over. By permission of Mr. Lover, ten poems, taken from a Ms. volume left by Mr. Lover, are here presented for the first time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.