Fair Seed Time

Author : David Paterson
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781838591465

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FAIR SEED-TIME by David Paterson Pdf

Fair Seed-Time is a major re-interpretation of the historical background to the writings of George Eliot. It rejects several oft-repeated myths about the early 19th Century Midland world in which George Eliot grew up, emphasises the importance of a previously neglected character in that world, Francis Newdigate, and provides a detailed insight into the life of Eliot’s father, Robert Evans. It shows how he rose socially throughout his life and how he played a significant role in the professional development of early 19th Century Land Agents. It provides detailed and carefully-argued evidence to illustrate how his life and work profoundly influenced George Eliot’s novels, from which there are many quotations. The author has delved into previously unread historical diaries and many other original and previously little used sources to bring alive the rapidly changing economic and social world of the early nineteenth century in general and north Warwickshire in particular. The result will be of interest both to general and local historians of this period, those concerned with the evolution of land agency as a profession, and to all students of literature, and especially George Eliot scholars, because of the fresh insights into her work.

Author : Denver Glendaire Sasser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000088716257

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Fair Seed-time by Denver Glendaire Sasser Pdf

Author : Scott Chaskey
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781609615048

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Seedtime by Scott Chaskey Pdf

Scott Chaskey—working farmer, poet, and spiritual father of the community farming movement—considers "the web of biodiversity and resilience at the heart of our cultural inheritance" by masterfully weaving history, politics, botany, literature, mythology, and memoir into a beautiful and instructive book. It's hard to think of a subject more fundamental to the sustenance of the human race than seeds. Having coevolved with the Earth's plants, insects, and animals, seeds are entwined with the core myths of ancient cultures and the development of human consciousness. Their story remains vitally important today, as the corporations that manufacture GMOs threaten our food security and the future of seed-cultivated agriculture. The stakes, for those concerned with preserving biodiversity and ecological integrity, are high. Balancing a wide view of politics and history, Chaskey alights from life on the farm he has cultivated for 25 years to conjure Gregor Mendel's breeding experiments that yielded our modern understanding of genetics; he also introduces us to several "bioneers," such as the geobotanist Nikolay Vavilov and agriculturalist Cary Fowler, who are preserving global biodiversity through seeds. Integrating scholarship with accessible storytelling, Seedtime is a celebration as well as a call to action urging us to renew our role as citizens of nature, in ecologist Aldo Leopold's phrase, not as conquerors of it.

Author : Richard Rankin Russell
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780268091811

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Seamus Heaney’s Regions by Richard Rankin Russell Pdf

Regional voices from England, Ireland, and Scotland inspired Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel prize-winner, to become a poet, and his home region of Northern Ireland provided the subject matter for much of his poetry. In his work, Heaney explored, recorded, and preserved both the disappearing agrarian life of his origins and the dramatic rise of sectarianism and the subsequent outbreak of the Northern Irish “Troubles” beginning in the late 1960s. At the same time, Heaney consistently imagined a new region of Northern Ireland where the conflicts that have long beset it and, by extension, the relationship between Ireland and the United Kingdom might be synthesized and resolved. Finally, there is a third region Heaney committed himself to explore and map—the spirit region, that world beyond our ken. In Seamus Heaney’s Regions, Richard Rankin Russell argues that Heaney’s regions—the first, geographic, historical, political, cultural, linguistic; the second, a future where peace, even reconciliation, might one day flourish; the third, the life beyond this one—offer the best entrance into and a unified understanding of Heaney’s body of work in poetry, prose, translations, and drama. As Russell shows, Heaney believed in the power of ideas—and the texts representing them—to begin resolving historical divisions. For Russell, Heaney’s regionalist poetry contains a “Hegelian synthesis” view of history that imagines potential resolutions to the conflicts that have plagued Ireland and Northern Ireland for centuries. Drawing on extensive archival and primary material by the poet, Seamus Heaney’s Regions examines Heaney’s work from before his first published poetry volume, Death of a Naturalist in 1966, to his most recent volume, the elegiac Human Chain in 2010, to provide the most comprehensive treatment of the poet’s work to date.

Author : Stephen Bygrave
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351550635

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Romantic Writings by Stephen Bygrave Pdf

Romantic Writings is an ideal introduction to the cultural phenomenon of Romanticism - one of the most important European literary movements and the cradle of 'Modern' culture. Here you will find an accessible introduction to the well-known male Romantic writers - Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. Alongside are chapters dealing with poems by Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Ann Barbauld, Elizabeth Barrett Browning which challenge the idea that these men are the only Romantic writers. As a further counterpoint the book also includes discussion of two German Romantic short stories by Kleist and Hoffman. Throughout, close-reading of texts is matched by an insistence on reading them in their historical context. Romantic Writings offers invaluable discussions of issues such as the notion of the Romantic artist; colonialism and the exotic; and the particular situation of women writers and readers.

Author : Philip C. Rule
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0823223159

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Coleridge and Newman by Philip C. Rule Pdf

By examining Samuel Taylor Coleridge's and John Henry Newman's parallel approaches to the central question of Christian apologetics - the existence of God - Coleridge and Newman: The Centrality of Conscience documents more fully than ever before the extent of Coleridge's influence on Newman. Both men sought to develop an argument for God's existence by understanding conscience as the moral self-awareness that makes us human. The study provides fresh readings of three texts by Colerdige and three by Newman. The result of these comparative readings is a rhetoric that both informs and invites the reader to personal reflection.

Author : Harriette Simpson Arnow
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609173678

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Seedtime on the Cumberland by Harriette Simpson Arnow Pdf

Harriette Arnow’s roots ran deep into the Cumberland River country of Kentucky and Tennessee, and out of her closeness to that land and its people comes this remarkable history. The first of two companion volumes, Seedtime on the Cumberland captures the triumphs and tragedies of everyday life on the frontier, a place where the land both promised and demanded much. In the years between 1780 and 1803, this part of the country presented tremendous opportunity to those who endeavored to make a new life there. Drawing on an extensive body of primary sources—including family journals, court records, and personal inventories—Arnow paints a stirring portrait of these intrepid people. Like the midden at some ancient archaeological site, these accumulated items become a treasure awaiting the insight and organization of an interpreter. Arnow also draws on a medium she believed in unerringly—oral history, the rich tradition that shaped so much of her own family and regional experience. A classic study of the Old Southwest, Seedtime on the Cumberland documents with stirring perceptiveness the opening of the Appalachian frontier, the intersection of settlers and Native Americans, and the harsh conditions of life in the borderlands.

Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher : London E. Moxon 1850.
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600002989

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The Prelude, Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind by William Wordsworth Pdf

Author : David S. Heidler,Jeanne T. Heidler
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812978957

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Henry Clay by David S. Heidler,Jeanne T. Heidler Pdf

He was the Great Compromiser, a canny and colorful legislator whose life mirrors the story of America from its founding until the eve of the Civil War. Speaker of the House, senator, secretary of state, five-time presidential candidate, and idol to the young Abraham Lincoln, Henry Clay is captured in full at last in this rich and sweeping biography. David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler present Clay in his early years as a precocious, witty, and optimistic Virginia farm boy who at the age of twenty transformed himself into an attorney. The authors reveal Clay’s tumultuous career in Washington, including his participation in the deadlocked election of 1824 that haunted him for the rest of his career, and shine new light on Clay’s marriage to plain, wealthy Lucretia Hart, a union that lasted fifty-three years and produced eleven children. Featuring an inimitable supporting cast including Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Abraham Lincoln, Henry Clay is beautifully written and replete with fresh anecdotes and insights. Horse trader and risk taker, arm twister and joke teller, Henry Clay was the consummate politician who gave ground, made deals, and changed the lives of millions.

Author : Clarke A. Chambers
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1963-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816657223

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Seedtime of Reform by Clarke A. Chambers Pdf

Seedtime of Reform was first published in 1963. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This is a detailed history of the social welfare movement in the United States during the period from the end of World War I to the inauguration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, an era which most historians characterize as one of normalcy and reaction. In his book Professor Chambers demonstrates that this was actually a seedtime of reform, a period when the groundwork was laid for many of the sweeping social changes which were to take place under the New Deal. While it is true, as the author points out, that the years from 1918 to 1933 were not hospitable to the cause of reform, it was during these years that reform leaders and welfare workers (and the associations and agencies they directed) elaborated new theories and programs of action to alleviate, prevent, and overcome certain persisting social ills. Although little was constructively achieved until new political leadership, operating in the context of acute and prolonged economic crisis, acted in the 1930s, much of what we identify as the New Deal was rooted not only in prewar progressivism but in the research, agitation, and welfare services of the 1920s as well. Reformers and welfare workers made especially significant contributions in the areas of housing, social security, public works, federal responsibility for dependent groups in society, and working conditions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Missions
ISBN : PSU:000020248048

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The Missionary Review of the World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher Wordsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005390625

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Memoirs of William Wordsworth, Poet-laureate, D. C. L. by Christopher Wordsworth Pdf

Author : Kenyon West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Poets laureate
ISBN : UGA:32108005053734

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The Laureates of England by Kenyon West Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNR:CR102006962

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The Select Poetical Works of William Wordsworth by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020083155

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Poems of Wordsworth by William Wordsworth Pdf