Hail and Farewell

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"Hail and Farewell" is a trilogy of autobiographical works by Irish writer George Moore. Published between 1911 and 1914, the trilogy includes "Ave," "Salve," and "Vale". Moore's work is characterized by its discursive, affectionate, and satirical tone, offering a blend of self-revelation and portraits of his Irish acquaintances, such as William Butler Yeats. The trilogy is noted for its comic spirit and provides insights into Irish rural life and the literary renaissance of the time. Moore, an innovator in fiction, also wrote novels like "Esther Waters" and explored French Naturalism in his earlier works.1

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Specialized forms of autobiography
…in favour of Irish art, Hail and Farewell (1911–14), illustrate the variations of intellectual autobiography. Finally, somewhat analogous to the novel as biography (for example, Graves’s I, Claudius) is the autobiography thinly disguised as, or transformed into, the novel. This group includes such works as Samuel Butler’s Way of All…
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…in favour of Irish art, Hail and Farewell (1911–14), illustrate the variations of intellectual autobiography. Finally, somewhat analogous to the novel as biography (for example, Graves’s I, Claudius) is the autobiography thinly disguised as, or transformed into, the novel. This group includes such works as Samuel Butler’s Way of All…
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…however, came with the trilogy Hail and Farewell (Ave, 1911; Salve, 1912; Vale, 1914). Discursive, affectionate, and satirical by turns, it reads like a sustained monologue that is both a carefully studied piece of self-revelation and an acute (though not always reliable) portrait gallery of his Irish acquaintance, which included…
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…however, came with the trilogy Hail and Farewell (Ave, 1911; Salve, 1912; Vale, 1914). Discursive, affectionate, and satirical by turns, it reads like a sustained monologue that is both a carefully studied piece of self-revelation and an acute (though not always reliable) portrait gallery of his Irish acquaintance, which included…
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