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<!-- =Aubrey de Vere (poet)= Sir Aubrey de Vere (28 August 1788 - 28 July 1846) was a poet. He was born at Curragh Chase, County Limerick, the son of Sir Vere Hunt, 1st Baronet, and educated at Harrow School. He chiefly spent his life at Chevy Chase, as an 'improving' Limerick landlord. In 1807 he married Mary Spring-Rice, sister of Lord Monteagle. He succeeded as second baronet in 1818. In 1832 he adapted his name to de Vere. He began writing poetry at age thirty.

He contributed to many journals, including National Magazine, Gem, Dublin Penny Journal, Keepsake and Dublin Literary Journal; he issued verse-dramas, Julian the Apostle (1822), The Duke of Mercia (1823), with which the longer poem "Lamentation of Ireland"; also Mary Tudor (1847), with which "Lamentation of Ireland", inter al.; Also collections include Song of Faith: Devout Exercises and Sonnets (1842), on patriotism, courage, freedom, and religious awe; died at Curragh Chase; de Vere was a life-long admirer and latterly a friend of William Wordsworth (to whom Song of Faith was dedicated), who visited Ireland him 1829 and whom he visited at Rydal Mount after.

His son Aubrey Thomas de Vere was also a poet, and edited a new edition of his father's works after his father's death.

Works
also Aubrey Thomas de Vere [his son], ed., Sonnets [1847], with a Memoir of the Author by A. T. De Vere [new edn.] (London 1875). 8o.
 * Ode to the Duchess of Angouleme (Dublin: J. Cumming; London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Browne 1815), 26pp.;
 * Julian the Apostate: A Dramatic Poem (London: John Warren 1822), v, 203pp.; and Do. [electronic edn.] (Cambridge: ProQuest LLC 1994);
 * The Duke of Mercia: An Historical Drama [with] "The Lamentation of Ireland", and Other Poems (London: Hurst &c. 1823), viii, 292pp. [1-218; 219-30pp.; sonnet series, 275-end];
 * A Song of Faith: Devout Exercises and Sonnets (London: W Pickering 1842), xiii, 286pp. [‘Descriptive’ section including “Rock of Cashel”, “Gougaune Barra”, “Glengarriff”, and “Killarney”];
 * Julian the Apostate [with] The Duke of Mercia: Historical Dramas (London: B. M. Pickering 1858), xx, 343pp. [verse];
 * Mary Tudor: An Historical Drama [with] "The Lamentation of Ireland" and Other Poems (London: W. Pickering 1847, rep. 1884), 456pp. [see details]; Do. [as Mary Tudor : an historical drama in two parts, and sonnets, by Sir Aubrey De Vere] (London: Basil Montagu Pickering 1875), li, 434pp. ; and Do. London: George Bell 1884), 330pp. [also on Readex Microprint, 1966 in 4 micro-opaques]; Do. [adapted by Mrs. Athelstan Mellersh; neé Kate Wright] (Torquay: Gregory & Scott 1914), 81pp.;

Bibliographical details
"Mary Tudor: An Historical Drama" [with] "The Lamentation of Ireland" and Other Poems by Sir Aubrey de Vere Bart. (London: W. Pickering 1847), vii, 456pp. Ded. ‘To the Lord Monteagle of Brandon / This Volume is dedicated, / According to the intention of the author, / and in memory of a love / truly fraternal and lasting / to the end.’ [Table of Contents, [v]-vii.] CONTENTS. Mary Tudor, Part the First [1; Part the Second [145]; The Lamentation of Ireland [333; ded. to Right Hon. Maurice Fitzgerald, Knight of Kerry; see extract, infra]; To my beloved Wife on her becoming of Age [345]; Fragment - “See from its ambush yon fair infant peeping “[347]; A Walk by the Shore at Ilfracomb [347]; Lines written after my Inspection of Lundy Island [349]; Fragment written at Southill Park [351]; Sunset on the Lower Shannon [353]; Song, “The light of love can never” [354]; Busaco: A Battle-sketch [354]; Fragment.- “How sweet that little lawn amid the woods” [359]; The Assignation [359]; True Love [361]; The benumbed Butterfly [362]; Epitaph on Sir John Moore [365]; The Widow [366]; The Flight of Napoleon [367]; To a Friend requesting me to write a Poem on a great Victory [368]; Lines on the Death of the Hon. William Cecil Pery, killed at the Storming of St. Sebastian [369]; Ode to the Duchess of Angouleme [371]; On the Death of Sir Thomas Picton, slain at Waterloo [778]; Ode to the Eagle Standard [380]; Epitaph for Colonel Rickard Lloyd (killed at the Passage of the Nive) [585]; The Anniversary of Waterloo [386]; To M- [390]; “In the fulness of time 1 shiall lie in the earth” [391]; The Sorrows of Peace: Fragment [392]; Fragment: Degeneracy of National Character [393]; To my Country [395 - viz., ‘... Britain, the just, the free, the glorious’]; A Poet’s Home [897]; Petrarca: Canzone III [399]; Stanzas from Menzini: By a Lady [403]; Translation of an Inscription from a mural Monument at Rome [404]; From the French of Madame de Murat [404]; Philosophic Love (from Rossi) 405]; From the Italian 405]; Cato in Utica (from Luigi Alamanni) [406]; Repentance: Madrigal of Michelegnolo Buonarotti [406]; The March of Xerxes: Epigram of Luigi Alamanni, 1556 [407]; The Glen of Glangoole [407]; Stanzas on Solitude [410]; Pastoral Song [411]; Ode to April [413]; The Dreams of Youth [417]; A Dream. Fragment [447]; Lines: “Sorrow to him who with a tearless eye” [433]; Verses for Music [435]; Maidenly Sorrow: Canzonet [440]; Lucretia (from the Latin) [437]; The Course of Time [437]; Madrigal [438]; From Meleager [438]; From Antipater [439]; On Anaercon (from Antipater ) [439]; From Theocritus [440]; A Song of Spring: Addressed to a Child [440]; Stanzas [445]; The Lot of All [446]; Fragments 1845-6 [448, of which:] “There is no danger, Friends, unless we fear” [448]; Restrict me not in friendship &c.” [448 ]; Times past [449]; The Bride [450]; A Homestead [450]; Character of Queen Elizabeth [451]; “To live alone” [452]; “Men of large intellects have minds like wells” [452]; “Life hath no conditions” [453 ]; “Life streams down to us, a mysterious river” [453]; “Nor cheat yourself, nor hire a world &c.” [454]; “Oh rather after grief let us rejoice “ [454]; Union in Absence [454]; “Be sure this earthly love which dwells within us” [455]; “Divine love bath its growth within the heart” 455]; “An if I be a worm, mine office is” [456]; “The dove-like spirit of peace &c.” [456].

Criticism

 * Anon, "The Poems of the De Veres", Dublin University Magazine, XXI, 122 (Feb. 1843), pp.190-204
 * Aubrey Thomas de Vere, ed., Sonnets [new edn.] with a memoir of the author [by A. T. De Vere] (London 1875)
 * Aubrey de Vere, Recollections of A. de Vere (London & NY: Edward Arnold 1897), vi, 373pp.

Commentary

 * W. B. Yeats (presum. writing on Aubrey de Vere, The Elder): ‘The poetry of Aubrey de Vere has less architecture than the poetry of Ferguson and Allingham, and more meditation. Indeed, his few but ever memorable successes are enchanted islands in gray seas of stately impersonal reverie and description, which drift by and leave no definite recollection. One needs, perhaps, to perfectly enjoy him, a Dominican habit, a cloister, and a breviary.’ (‘Modern Irish Poetry’ [prev. in A Book of Irish Verse, 1895, & rep. in] Justin McCarthy, gen. ed., Irish Literature, 1904, Vol. III, p.pp.vii-xiii; p.xi.)
 * The Foray of Queen Maeve (1882): ‘While all along the circles of their shields, / And all adown their swords, viewless for speed / Ran, mad with rage, the demons of dark moors / And war-sprites of the valleys, Bocanachs / And Banachas whose screem, so keen its edge / Might shear the centuried forest as the scythe / Shear meadow grass.’ (p.178; quoted in A. N. Jeffares, A New Commentary on the Poems of W. B. Yeats, London: Macmillan 1984, p.472 - annot. on Banachas and Bonachas in “Cuchulain has Killed Kings”.)
 * Roisin Dubh: ‘The Little Black Rose shall be red at last/ What made it black but the March wind dry,/ And the tear of the widow that fell on it fast; / It shall redden the hills when June is nigh.’ (Quoted in Jarleth Killeen, "Woman and Nation Revisited: Oscar Wilde's The Nightingale and the Rose", in Critical Ireland: New Essays in Literature and Culture, ed. Aaron Kelly & Alan Gillis, Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001, p.143.)
 * Angel of Éire: “The Financial Relations of England and Ireland (with apologies to Wahrer Jacob)”: ‘That angel whose charge is Eire/ sang thus o’er the dark Isle winging - / For ages three without laws ye shall flee as beasts in the forest: / For an age and a half age, Faith shall bring not peace but a sword. / Then laws shall rend you, like eagles, sharp-fanged, of your scourges the sorest: / When these three Woes are past look up, for your hope is restored.’ Aubrey de Vere, verses attached to political cartoon rep. in illustration of Luke Gibbons, ‘The Mirror and the Vamp: Reflections on the Act of Union’, in Bruce Stewart, ed., In Hearts and Minds: Culture and Society under the Act of Union, Gerards Cross: Colin Smyth, 2002, pls.)

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