In addition to The Milesian Chief and The Fatal Revenge, this author is best known for a novel that begins with a character being told to (*) burn a portrait by his uncle.
This author may have written the lines "Nature – Ethereal essence, fire divine, / Pure origin of all that Earth was fair," although it is attributed to James Wills, and that poem is called The Universe. In one of his plays, Adelmar rescues the title character from a snowstorm, even though earlier he had witnessed him kill Wallenberg's father and had denied him marriage to his daughter Urilda. In his last novel, Sir Redmond Blaney and Jane are married at the title haunted locale, Leixlip Castle. In addition to The Milesian Chief and The Fatal Revenge, this author is best known for a novel that begins with a character being told to (*) burn a portrait by his uncle. That character eventually falls into the sea after seeing an apparition, where he is told a tale about Immalee by a man whose family was controlled by evil monks. Eventually, in that novel by this author, the daughter of Don Francisco of Aliaga dies when giving birth to the child of the title character, a man who for two centuries tries to collect souls for Satan. For ten points, name this Irish author of Melmoth the Wanderer.
This author may have written the lines "Nature – Ethereal essence, fire divine, / Pure origin of all that Earth was fair," although it is attributed to James Wills, and that poem is called The Universe.
Charles {Maturin}