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Author : Phillip J. Pirages
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Book design
ISBN : OCLC:1111630989
Author : UNKNOWN. AUTHOR
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1330377117
Excerpt from The British Letter Writers: A Comprehensive Collection of the Best English Letters From the 15th Century to the Present Time In adding a few prefatory sentences to the fifth volume which has passed from the hand of the present compiler into the series in which this volume appears, it may be sufficient to say, in the first place, that the idea of making a collection of the best English letters is not a new one with him. Some years before the issue of Mr. Scoone's admirable Four Centuries of English Letters, to which we have been indebted, the idea had taken shape which has only now been executed. The matter in this volume will be found much greater in quantity, however, than in the work we have mentioned. The compiler has endeavoured to do his best with the materials under command. For any modern names which do not appear, the fact that their works are copyright must be held as a sufficient reason. All that the compiler claims to have done is to have made a collection of English letters from the best sources at command. No attempt has been made at the annotation of the letters beyond a brief explanatory note at the beginning of those letters which seemed to require it. In some cases an authors own words have been used as an explanatory note. The book is arranged in two sections - (1) Familiar and Domestic; (2) Historical, Literary, and Descriptive Letters. Although this distinction has been preserved as closely as possible, in many cases a letter may naturally fall as readily into one division as another, and may have characteristics common to both. Such a collection does not need an apology. As materials for biography and history, letters have always occupied a high and indispensable place. When good and characteristic, as in the lives of Arnold, Dickens, Carlyle, Macaulay, or Kingsley, they constitute the best key to the character of the subject of the memoir, and in all probability lend the chief charm to the work for many a reader. For instance, we see the real Charles Dickens shining less or more through every letter that he wrote. The same is the case in Froude's Carlyle. Looked at as materials for history, letters have always held an important place; we have a part of the Sacred Writings cast in the form of letters; many gems of literature thus exist in which pathos, humour, fine feeling, and good criticism are freely displayed. The heart of a subject is sometimes laid bare in a familiar letter in a way in which we do not find it in the page of sober history; we come, too, into close contact with the mind of the now historical persons who penned them, and catch, as in a mirror, some of then faded lineaments. Of course, just as we have tedious and tiresome people, we have tedious, flippant, and tiresome letters, with small reason for historical existence; but these can be easily avoided. It would take up too much space to mention all the works drawn upon. We have already mentioned our indebtedness to Mr. Scoone's book ;in addition we might mention: A Select Collection of Original Letters written by the most Eminent Persons, 2 vols. (Rivington, and B. J. Dodsley, 1755), up till that time the best selection published; also The Letters of Eminent Persons, selected and illustrated byE. A. Willmott (1839), many of whose valuable and discriminating notes have been adopted for this book. Acknowledgments are due to the following firms and private individuals who have kindly granted the use of valuable letters: Messrs. Longman & Co.; Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co.; Isbister & Co.; Mr. Maclehose; Bickers & Son; T. C. Jack; the Froprietors of Dr. Livingstones Life; Misses Dickens and Hogarth; the late Dr. Hanna; Dr. Peter Bayne; and Mrs. Bishop (Isabella L. Bird). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
Author : Dennis Freeborn
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780776604695
"This practical and informative course book is a fascinating, visual volume which leads the student through the development of the language from Old English, through Middle and Early Modern English to the establishment of Standard English in the eighteenth century." "At the core of this substantially expanded second edition lies a series of nearly 200 historical texts, of which more than half are reproduced in facsimile, and which illustrate the progressive changes in the language. The book is firmly based upon linguistic description, with commentaries which form a series of case studies demonstrating the evidence for language change at every level - handwriting, spelling, punctuation, vocabulary, grammar and meaning." "Such a wealth of texts, as well as the structured activities and the various case studies, allow the volume to be used not only as a stimulating course text, guiding students through the analysis of data, but also as a comprehensive resource book and invaluable reference tool for teachers and students at all levels."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Roger Virgoe
Publisher : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : England
ISBN : 1555842704
Letters and documents spanning three generations of an important fifteenth-century English family offer a glimpse at life in the turbulent era leading from medieval to modern history
Author : Folger Shakespeare Library,Alan Stewart,Heather Wolfe
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114234227
Reproduces in full size and transcribes a number of letters from the early sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries
Author : Robert Cochrane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : English letters
ISBN : BSB:BSB11603343
Author : Norman Davis,Richard Beadle,Colin Richmond
Publisher : Early English Text Society
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0197224237
The Paston family papers have long been consulted for their infomation about social history and politics in the fiftenth century, both within East Anglia and also nationally. Parts I and II of Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century, edited by Norman Davis, were originally published by the Clarendon Press in 1971 and 1976, and were reissued with corrections by EETS in 2004. Part III completes the edition. It contains the texts of 120 additional letters and papers, many of them relating to Sir John Fastolf and his circle. These texts are previously unprinted, or printed only in part; some only came to light after the publication of Parts I and II. The texts have been edited according to the principles established by Norman Davis, and are accompanied by an Introduction and Bibliography, as well as a consolidated index to all three parts of the edition, a glossary to the entire edition, a concordance of the principal editions and origal sources, and a working chronology of the documents. Richard Beadle is Reader in English Literature and Historical Bibliography at the University of Cambridge; Colin Richmond is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Keele.
Author : Roger Virgoe
Publisher : Crown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1992-01-28
Category : English letters.
ISBN : 0517079550
Letters and documents spanning three generations of an important fifteenth-century English family offer a glimpse at life in the turbulent era leading from medieval to modern history.
Author : Henry Shaw
Publisher : London : W. Pickering
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Alphabets
ISBN : BSB:BSB10800457
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Manuscripts
ISBN : OCLC:1371492056
Author : Christian Høgel,Elisabetta Bartoli
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Latin letters, Medieval and modern
ISBN : 2503555209
Modern scholarship on medieval letters has often focused on the divide between fictionality and historicity. Attempts have been made to distinguish between 'real' letters and those that were used as stylistic models, and discussion has focused on how to make use of these texts as historical sources. In this volume, which draws on the proceedings of the 'Medieval Letters between Fiction and Document' conference held in Siena in 2013, scholars including Peter Dronke, Ronald Witt, Joan Ferrante, and Sylvie Lefevre analyse the historical value of medieval letters in both Latin and other European languages and explore different disciplinary approaches to the field. Comprising contributions on methodology, Latin literature up to the fifteenth century, Byzantine and Romance literature, and courtly letters, this unique book also documents the debate on unedited texts--including women's love letters--and on celebrated cases of disputed authorship such as the Epistolae duorum amantium and Dante's Epistola to Cangrande. It thus offers a significant re-evaluation of the huge and partly unpublished heritage of medieval letters across Europe, and provides important insights into the use of these unique sources in social, literary, and legal history.
Author : Anne Crawford
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004652484
This is a unique compendium of letters written by medieval women between 1200 and 1500.
Author : Richard Welford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Gateshead (England)
ISBN : UOM:39015068344848
Author : Anna Tiziana Drago,Owen Hodkinson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110989472
This volume investigates the form of love letters and erotic letters in Greek and Latin up to the 7th Century CE, encompassing both literary and documentary letters (the latter inscribed and on papyrus), and prose and poetry. The potential for, and utility of treating this large and diverse corpus as a ‘genre’ is examined. To this end, approaches from ancient literary criticism and modern theory of genre are made; mutual influences between the documentary and the literary form are sought; and origins in proto-epistolary poetic texts are examined. In order to examine the boundaries of a form, limit cases, which might have less claim to the label ‘love letter’, are compared with more clear-cut examples. A series of case studies focuses on individual letters and letter-collections. Some case studies situate their subjects within the history and literary evolution of the love letter, using both intertextuality and comparative approaches; others placing them in their cultural and historical contexts, particularly uncovering the contribution of epistolarity to erotic discourse, and to the history of sexuality and gender in diverse eras and locations within Classical to Late Antiquity.
Author : Norman Davis
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : England
ISBN : UCAL:B2854589