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Meziere Brady:

The Wit, Epigrams and Poetry of the Reverend De La Cour ‘The Mad Parson’, Blarney, Co. Cork.

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From Crofton Croker:

At Killowen, near Blarney, the Rev. James De la Cour was born, whose ‘ Prospect of Poetry,’ unfortunately for him, was much admired. It is reported that some complimentary lines addressed

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to him on this publication, by Thomson, the author of the Seasons, commencing with Hail, gently warbling De la Cour,’’
James Thomson, The Seasons London: Henry Woodfall for A. Millar (1744)

affected his reason, so as to render him guilty of many irregularities, for which he was deprived of his gown.
The Prospect of Poetry (evidently an imitation of Pope) was first published in 1?33, and has since been reprinted in Cork more than once, with some of De la Cour’s other poems, the beauties and faults of which closely resemble those…