Echoing Greens

Author : Brendan Cooper
Publisher : Constable
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781408719435

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The importance of cricket to England has been immortalised in the art and literature of a thousand years. For countless artists and writers across the centuries, the culture and aesthetics of cricket - white-clad players, the crack of bat on ball, booming appeals, admiring applause, figures running up to bowl, batsmen leaning, waiting, swinging the blade - have been as essential to the English landscape as the hills and meadows immortalised by Gainsborough, Constable and Turner. It is a story that is known in part, but one that has never been explored in full. And it is lined with surprises, forgotten tales and unnoticed details - ranging from medieval manuscript illustrations, through a dazzling variety of visual art, poetry, fiction and drama, to recent portraits of contemporary heroes. Echoing Greens is a fascinating and thoughtful exploration of the bond between cricket and the English imagination. It unveils that beneath cosy patriotic dreams of 'English values', a much wilder, more complex story exists. Alongside stories of heroic figures, noble values, and pastoral idylls, the literature and the art of cricket also tell of vice, violence, and scandal. The result is a thrilling investigation into the true story behind these representations of the game, and forces us to reconsider the history of cricket itself.

Author : Joshua Prager
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780307389336

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This is the untold story of the secret scandal behind baseball's most legendary moment:The Shot Heard Round the World. A Washington Post Best Book of the Year. At 3:58 p.m. on October 3, 1951, Bobby Thomson hit a home run off Ralph Branca. The ball sailed over the left field wall and into history. The Giants won the pennant. That moment—the Shot Heard Round the World—reverberated from the West Wing of the White House to the Sing Sing death house to the Polo Grounds clubhouse, where hitter and pitcher forever turned into hero and goat. It was also in that centerfield block of concrete that, after the home run, a Giant coach tucked away a Wollensak telescope. The Echoing Green places that revelation at the heart of a larger story, re-creating in extravagant detail and illuminating as never before the impact of both a moment and a long-guarded secret on the lives of Bobby Thomson and Ralph Branca.

Author : Carlos Baker
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781400885756

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In an engaging discussion that will appeal to all students of poetry, including veteran scholars, this book shows which poems most occupied the attention of these moderns, summarizes their attitudes toward historical romanticism, explores what use they made of aesthetic and ethical ideas from the critical prose of 1800-1825, and takes notice of when, where, and precisely how they adapted images and echoed phrases from romantic poetry for use in their own work. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Cecily Parks
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781101907733

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The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses is a unique anthology of poetry about the natural world. The rich poetic history of grass spans the centuries, from the pastoral poems of ancient Rome to the fields and prairies of the New World. The rapturous idealizations of William Blake’s “echoing green” and William Wordsworth’s “splendour in the grass” stand in vivid contrast to the obliterating greenery on human battlefields in war poems such as John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields” and Carl Sandburg’s “Grass,” or to the work of contemporary poets—Lucia Perillo, Harryette Mullen, Denise Levertov, and Gary Soto among them—who reflect on an age of environmental crisis. Here is a rich array of poets from around the world, including Virgil, T’ao Ch’ien, Bashō, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burns, Victor Hugo, Christina Rossetti, Rainer Maria Rilke, Anna Akhmatova, Willa Cather, Ingeborg Bachmann, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Tomas Tranströmer, Sherman Alexie, and Derek Walcott, in a dazzling celebration of our complicated relationship to nature.

Author : Cecil Day Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Children's poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047970558

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Author : Gillian Avery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Biography
ISBN : 0670288373

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A social history of nineteenth century England and the United States as reflected in the biographies, diaries, and letters of contemporary people.

Author : Lara Galinsky
Publisher : Echoing Green
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Career development
ISBN : 9780615419466

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Work on Purpose by Lara Galinsky Pdf

"I want a meaningful career--not just a job. But how do I get there?" When passion drives your choices and your talents shine, opportunities abound. But you can't get there if you don't know where or how to start. This book shows you how. Since 1987, Echoing Green has provided over thirty million dollars in seed funding to the world's top young social entrepreneurs who figured out the where and the how. But their paths weren't straight or always clear. How did they do it? Meet five of these change makers and see for yourself as they dig deep and find their way. Career choice is a destination, not a decision, and having the right tools to navigate the ride is essential. The stories in this book will help you listen to your heart, use your head, and unleash your hustle. Meanwhile, thought-provoking questions will prompt you to discover what moves you most--what gets you out of bed in the morning--and guide you as you take inventory of your beliefs, acquired skills, and innate gifts so you can lock onto your inspiration. PLUS, more than 150 career resources and programs targeted toward helping you move your vision forward in real time that will put your career on the fast track. With a foreword by LIVESTRONG's Lance Armstrong and Doug Ulman and an afterword by Harlem Children's Zone's Geoffrey Canada, Work on Purpose is your source for inspiration and practical guidance around creating a career that will change your life--and the world. -- Provided by publisher.

Author : Jason Haber
Publisher : Entrepreneur Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781613083369

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The Business of Good by Jason Haber Pdf

The Business of Good narrates the story behind social entrepreneurship as told by the individuals compelled to create a change in the world--not just another business. Serial and social entrepreneur Jason Haber intertwines case studies, anecdotes, and initiatives that have become part of the larger narrative of entrepreneurship. From Main Street to Wall Street, today’s social entrepreneurs are rebooting capitalism, challenging the charitable industrial complex, and are disrupting the way companies do business with exciting innovations designed to solve society’s most vexing problems. In this book, Haber examines Capitalism 2.0, philanthropy, and the role and power of media alongside the world’s response as social entrepreneurship changes how we give, how we invest, and who we are.

Author : SASIMI
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:254201378

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Author : Dr Gillian O'Brien
Publisher : Random House
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781620519

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The Darkness Echoing by Dr Gillian O'Brien Pdf

The Irish Times Top 10 Bestseller! From war to revolution, famine to emigration, The Darkness Echoing travels around Ireland bringing its dark past to life It's no secret that the Irish are obsessed with misery, suffering and death. And no wonder, for there is darkness everywhere you look: in cemeteries and castles, monuments and museums, stories and songs. In The Darkness Echoing, Gillian O'Brien tours Ireland's most deliciously dark heritage sites, delving into the stories behind them and asking what they reveal about the Irish. Energetic, illuminating and surprisingly funny, The Darkness Echoing challenges old, accepted narratives about Ireland, and asks intriguing questions about Ireland's past, present and future. 'My history book of the year' Ryan Tubridy 'As thought-provoking as it is informative and entertaining' Irish Times 'Hugely enjoyable, thought-provoking and informative ... An essential read' History Ireland

Author : Cecil Day Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1114906134

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Author : Alexander Gilchrist
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:400319260

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Life of William Blake by Alexander Gilchrist Pdf

Author : William Blake
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0435150820

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Blake: Selected Poems by William Blake Pdf

The books in this A Level poetry series contain a glossary and notes on each page. The approach encourages students to develop their own responses to the poems, and an A Level Chief Examiner offers exam tips. This text contains selected poems of William Blake.

Author : John Cunningham Geikie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590407934

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First (Second) poetry book, selected and arranged by C. Geikie by John Cunningham Geikie Pdf

Author : Gillian Avery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UOM:39015008311873

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The Echoing Green by Gillian Avery Pdf

A social history of nineteenth century England and the United States as reflected in the memoirs, diaries, and letters of contemporary people.