George William Russell
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
George William Russell pseud. A. E., 1867-1935, Irish author, b. Lurgan, educated in Dublin. An active member of the Irish nationalist movement, he edited the Irish Homestead (1904-23) and the Irish Statesman (1923-30). He worked with Sir Horace Plunkett for Irish agricultural improvement, and he was also a talented amateur painter and a renowned conversationalist. Russell was one of the major writers in the Irish literary renaissance . His poems and plays are noted for their mystical tone, their delicate melodious style, and their view of humanity's spiritual nature. Among his works are Homeward: Songs by the Way (1894), The Candle of Vision (1918), and Selected Poems (1935).
Bibliography: See his prose collection The Living Torch (ed. by M. Gibbons, 1937); memoir by J. Eglinton (1937).
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008
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