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A concise biography and critical study traces the writer's Irish origins, medical training and abortive university career, itinerant travels on the Continent, and eventual establishment in London where he pursued a literary life. It outlines his major poems and prose, sketches friendships and membership of a notable literary club, and recounts recurring financial difficulties alongside widespread admiration for his comic gifts. Arranged as short chapters combining chronological narrative and literary commentary, the book emphasizes themes of home, compassion, geniality, and the tension between artistic talent and practical hardship.

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