Fitz-James O'Brien Susquehanna University SU Press - Main Page 1851, the transplanted Irish- man Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862) was a prolific literary journalist biographer, Francis Wolle, in Fitz-James O'Brien A Literary Bohemian of the http://www.susqu.edu/su_press/bookjacketsinfo/jcFitzJames.htm
Extractions: by Wayne R. Kime In the decade that followed his arrival in the United States in 1851, the transplanted Irish- man Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862) was a prolific literary journalist, producing a steady stream of contributions to newspapers, week- lies, and monthly magazines, in New York and elsewhere. As poet, short story writer, essayist, dramatist, and critic, he won a reputa- tion as one of the ablest of the young writers in the city of New York. The full range of O'Brien's talents was apparent only to his immediate contempo- raries, who encountered his latest produc- tions as they appeared in print from week to week, year after year. Soon after his early death the sense of wonder at his protean abilities began to dissipate. Readers during the Civil War fixed their attention on matters of more pressing concern, and meanwhile his works lay outside easy reach, buried in old periodical files. Although in 1881 William Winter brought out a one-volume selection of his poems and stories, for more than a century that single volume formed almost by itself the basis for O'Brien's continuing reputation.
Kane, By Fitz-James O'Brien Complete text of the poem by FitzJames O'Brien, written in honor of Elisha Kane's polar expedition. by Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862) LOFT upon an old basaltic crag MORE POEMS BY Fitz-James http://www.poetry-archive.com/o/kane.html
Extractions: KANE by: Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862) And underneath, upon the lifeless front Of that drear cliff, a simple name is traced; Fit type of him who, famishing and gaunt, But with a rocky purpose in his soul, By want beleaguered, and by winter chased, Seeking the brother lost amid the frozen waste. Not many months ago we greeted him, Crowned with the icy honors of the North, Across the land his hard-won fame went forth, And Maine's deep woods were shaken limb by limb. His own mild Keystone State, sedate and prim, Burst from decorous quiet as he came. Hot Southern lips, with eloquence aflame, Sounded his triumph. Texas, wild and grim, Proffered its horny hand. The large-lunged West, Yelled its frank welcome. And from main to main
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The Poems And Stories Of Fitz-James O'Brien. Collected And Edited The poems and stories of FitzJames O'Brien. Collected and Edited, with a Sketch of the Author, by William Winter Fitz-James O'Brien, 1828-1862 1828-1862 Fitz-James O'Brien http://rdre1.inktomi.com/click?u=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AM0550&y=02AFCD5
Extractions: The Diamond Lens I From a very early period of my life the entire bent of my inclinations had been toward microscopic investigations. When I was not more than ten years old, a distant relative of our family, hoping to astonish my inexperience, constructed a simple microscope for me by drilling in a disk of copper a small hole in which a drop of pure water was sustained by capillary attraction. This very primitive apparatus, magnifying some fifty diameters, presented, it is true, only indistinct and imperfect forms, but still sufficiently wonderful to work up my imagination to a preternatural state of excitement. Seeing me so interested in this rude instrument, my cousin explained to me all that he knew about the principles of the microscope, related to me a few of the wonders which had been accomplished through its agency, and ended by promising to send me one regularly constructed, immediately on his return to the city. I counted the days, the hours, the minutes that intervened between that promise and his departure. It was no scientific thirst that at this time filled my mind. It was the pure enjoyment of a poet to whom a world of wonders has been disclosed. I talked of my solitary pleasures to none. Alone with my microscope, I dimmed my sight, day after day and night after night, poring over the marvels which it unfolded to me. I was like one who, having discovered the ancient Eden still existing in all its primitive glory, should resolve to enjoy it in solitude, and never betray to mortal the secret of its locality. The rod of my life was bent at this moment. I destined myself to be a microscopist.
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Fitz-James O Brien Biography Irish Bohemian, American Fantasist. FitzJames O Brien (1828-1862). Ofhis life in Ireland and England very little is known. The available http://www.creative.net/~alang/lit/horror/fobbio.htm
Extractions: O f his life in Ireland and England very little is known. The available facts are so sketchy they do not include the names of his parents, while the tributes of his later friends contain statements that are sometimes contradictory. It has been established that Fitz-James O'Brien was born in County Limerick, Ireland on December 31, 1828. It is known is that he was an only child. His father was a lawyer or county coroner or somehow both and died when Fitz was about twelve. Whatever the father's occupation, he was successful, leaving a patrimony said to have been £8,000. Fitz's mother, described as "a lady of remarkable beauty," did not remarry for "a considerable time" though "when O'Brien was still a lad." Fitz was educated at Trinity College, Dublin though "not in any profession." After college, around 1849, he went to London, where in the space of two and one half years he managed two remarkable achievements. First, he "squandered" his entire inheritance. But he was not idle, for he also published "a large number of poems, stories, and articles" in Irish, Scottish, and English periodicals. Thus O'Brien's Bohemian reputation was forecast; and thus illustrated the devil-may-care attitude by which he lived and died. Other "facts" are dubious. He may also have edited a periodical devoted to the World's Fair. He claimed to have been in the English Army, but this has not been corroborated. He later referred to "one true love" he had known in Britain, who may have been a woman married to an English officer; she, he said, "marred his life" and he said he "could never love again." One published work from this period has been identified perhaps. The story "An Arabian Nightmare," published anonymously in Charles Dickens'
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Extractions: C alled "a Poe in the minor mode" and "the preeminent writer of supernatural stories of his time," Fitz-James O'Brien is best remembered for two or three widely anthologized stories that border on science fiction and for a supernatural poem. Mullen's caricature of Fitz-James O'Brien recruiting for the Union Army
Fitz James O'Brien You are in Museum of History Hall of North and South Americans Fitz James O'Brien. Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske. Six volumes, New York D. O'Brien. O'Brien, Fitz James, author, born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1828" died in Cumberland, Maryland, 6 April, 1862 Stories of Fitz James O'Brien " to which http://www.famousamericans.net/fitzjamesobrien
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Fitz-James O'Brien - Bibliography Summary Bibliography Summary. Pub Biblio Summary Alpha Chron Main MenuSearch O Brien, Michael FitzJames (Limerick, Ireland, 1828-1862). http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Fitz-James_O'Brien
Author Information Rating None (0 votes) Comments 0 (show them) Biography 18281862 Irish-born two-volumeedition The Supernatural Tales of Fitz-James O Brien (1988), edited http://www.iblist.com/author.php?id=5825
Extractions: @import url(http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf/eaf/%22/eaf/styles/eaf_advanced.css%22); dqmcodebase = "/scripts/" Works in the Collection Manuscript Materials Biographies Fitz James O'Brien was born in Ireland. In 1852, he emigrated to the U. S., and began a career in journalism in New York. He became a regular contributor to Harper's and other periodicals. O'Brien is best known for macabre tales such as "The Diamond Lens." While serving in the Union army during the Civil War, O'Brien was wounded and later died of tetanus. "Bob O'Link" from Tales of the Time "The Diamond Lens" from Atlantic Tales (Restricted) Manuscript: Page from "Bob-o-link" From Oscar Fay Adams, A Dictionary of American Authors From Samuel Austin Allibone, A Critical Dictionary of English Literature
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Extractions: O'BRIEN, (Michael) FITZ-JAMES O'BYRNE, ELAINE O'DONOGHUE, MICHAEL OFFUTT, ANDREW J(efferson, V) OLIVER, (Symmes) CHAD(wick) Field Expedient, Astounding Jan '55 Transformer, Nov '54 OLTION, JERRY (Brian) OUNSLEY, SIMON OVERSTREET, A. D. Warrior's Way, Sword and Sorceress #5, ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley, DAW, 1988 Atlantisz
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Extractions: In a short life of 33 years, Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862) established himself as a competent and imaginative writer, and was in fact something of an innovator in the frenetic and economically perilous literary life of his day. Some have placed him as the best American writer of short stories between Poe (1809 -1849) and Bret Harte (1836-1902), and he was certainly admired by his literary colleagues. His work, at its best, stands for itself. The Diamond Lens could be used as a texbook example of the application of Poe's Philosophy of Composition , with which O'Brien would have had to be familiar: a carefully-crafted tone, an economical style in which few superfluities of language can be detected, and a slow accelerando of pace to a denouement which is inevitable from the beginning, yet still riveting. Crucial to the success of the story is the blending of hard fact with extreme fantasy, the juxtaposition of technology and mysticism, a convincing and "scientific" setting against which is played an unworldly romance. The story was well received by public and critics, and established O'Brien as a lion of literary New York. It is important to remember that the impact on fiction-writing and public taste of Poe's detective stories and his stories dealing with the outre was only beginning to be felt. Critics who cite O'Brien's style as "florid" and "naive when it is not a little pompous and literary" should perhaps give more consideration to the cultural context of the work; the same can be said of Poe even more. Consider, too, that in the literary circles of the time, one wrote for the admiration of one's literary friends as well as for that of the public.
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