SOURCE: "Book the Sixth: The Story-Teller," in Poor Scholar: A Study of the Works and Days of William Carleton (1794-1869), Sheed and Ward, 1948, pp. 177-95.
In the following essay, Kiely assesses William Carleton's place in Irish literary history and explores how Carleton turned away from topics pertinent to the Irish peasantry in the writing of his later years.
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