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Author : John Till Allingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1804
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101067627321
Author : Eddie Robson
Publisher : Tordotcom
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250260529
"[Hearts of Oak packs in] the sort of profound and lacerating laughter that Robson's countrymen Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett perfected." –NPR Hearts of Oak is a delightful science fiction adventure from Eddie Robson, the creator of the acclaimed Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully. The buildings grow. And the city expands. And the people of the land are starting to behave abnormally. Or perhaps they’ve always behaved that way, and it’s normality that’s at fault. And the king of the land confers with his best friend, who happens to be his closest advisor, who also happens to be a talking cat. But that’s all perfectly natural and not at all weird. Iona, close to retirement, finds that the world she has always known is nothing like she always believed it to be. There are dark forces . . . not dark. There are uncanny forces . . . no, not uncanny. There are forces, anyway, mostly slightly odd ones, and they appear to be acting in mysterious ways. It’s about town planning, it’s about cats and it’s about the nature of reality. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Hearts of Oak Benefit Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Social security
ISBN : HARVARD:HN43AM
Author : Lyle Maude Rock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Bowles Family
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081199007
Author : Various
Publisher : HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
Page : 1279 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Example in this ebook The poetry relating to American history falls naturally into two classes: that written, so to speak, from the inside, on the spot, and that written from the outside, long afterwards. Of the first class, "The Star-Spangled Banner" is the most famous example, as well as perhaps the best. Even at this distant day, reading it with a knowledge of the circumstances which produced it, it has a power of touching the heart and gripping the imagination which goes far toward proving the genuineness of its art. Of the second class, "Paul Revere's Ride" is probably the most widely known, though Mr. Longfellow's own "Ballad of the French Fleet" is a better poem. It is evident that, in compiling an anthology such as this, different standards must be used in judging these two classes. The first, aside from any quality as poetry which it may have, is of value because of its historical or political interest, because it is an expression and an interpretation of the hour which gave it birth. With it, poetic merit is not the first consideration, which is, perhaps, as well. Yet, however slight their merit as poetry may be, many of the early ballads possess an admirable energy, directness, and aptness of phrase, and there is about them a childlike simplicity impossible of reproduction in this sophisticated age—as where Stephen Tilden, in his epitaph on Braddock, requests the great commanders who have preceded that unfortunate soldier to the grave to "Edge close and give him room." With the retrospective ballad, on the other hand, poetic merit is a sine qua non. It has little value historically, however accurate its facts. It differs from the contemporary ballad in the same way that the "New Canterbury Tales" differ from Froissart; or as the "Idylls of the King" differ from "Le Morte Arthur." It is less authentic, less convincing, less vital. It may have atmosphere, but there is no infallible way of telling whether the atmosphere is right. Unless it is something more, then, than mere metrical history, the modern ballad has little claim to consideration. These are the two principles which the present compiler has had constantly in mind. Yet the second principle has been violated more than once, since, in a collection such as this, one must cut one's coat according to the cloth; or, rather, one must make sure that one is decently covered, though the covering may here and there be somewhat inferior in quality. So it has been necessary, in order to keep the thread of history unbroken, to admit some strands anything but silken; and if the choice has sometimes been of ills, rather than of goods, the compiler can only hope that he chose wisely. The most difficult and trying portion of his task has been, not to get his material together, but to compress it into reasonable limits. Especially in the colonial period was the temptation great to include more early American verse. Peter Folger's "A Looking-Glass for the Times," Benjamin Tompson's "New England's Crisis," Michael Wigglesworth's "God's Controversy with New England," the "Sot-Weed Factor," and many others, which it is recalling an old sorrow to name here, were excluded only after long and bitter debate. No doubt other exclusions will be noticed by nearly every reader of the volume—and it may interest him to know that the material gathered together would have made four such books as this. To be continue in this ebook
Author : Stephen Jones,Charles Molloy Westmacott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1810
Category : English literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044092629591
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1810
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555083105
Author : George Samuel Parsons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433008439816
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1810
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101065087882
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Cattle
ISBN : CORNELL:31924066239025
Author : Lewis Falley Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Cattle
ISBN : NYPL:33433007844958
To which is prefixed a concise history of English and American Short horns, compiled from the best authorities.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1781
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : NYPL:33433074833900
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : English wit and humor
ISBN : UCAL:B2867655
Includes parodies of Tennyson, Longfellow, Bret Harte, Thomas Hood, Swinburne, Browning, Shakespeare, Milton, Poe, Shelley, Cowper, Coleridge, Herrick, Carroll, Lever, Lover, Burns, Scott, Goldsmith, Kingsley, Byron and many others.
Author : Dr Susan Valladares
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472418630
In her study of English theatre during the Peninsular War, Susan Valladares contextualizes the theatrical treatment of the war within the larger political and ideological axes of Romantic performance. From its nuanced reading of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's Pizarro (1799), to its accounts of wartime productions of Shakespeare, description of performances at the minor theatres, and detailed case study of dramatic culture in Bristol, Valladares’s book reveals how theatrical entertainments reflected and shaped public feeling on the Peninsular campaign.
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:C2643739