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Memoir Of John Aubrey F R S Embracing His Auto Biographical Sketches A Brief Review Of His Personal And Literary Merits An Account Of His Works With Extracts From His Correspondence Anecdotes Of Some Of His Contemporaries And Of The Times In Which He Lived Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Memoir Of John Aubrey F R S Embracing His Auto Biographical Sketches A Brief Review Of His Personal And Literary Merits An Account Of His Works With Extracts From His Correspondence Anecdotes Of Some Of His Contemporaries And Of The Times In Which He Lived book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : John Britton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Antiquarians
ISBN : OXFORD:300149872
Author : John Britton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:248801771
Author : Ruth Scurr
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681370439
Born on the brink of the modern world, John Aubrey was witness to the great intellectual and political upheavals of the seventeenth century. He knew everyone of note in England—writers, philosophers, mathematicians, doctors, astrologers, lawyers, statesmen—and wrote about them all, leaving behind a great gift to posterity: a compilation of biographical information titled Brief Lives, which in a strikingly modest and radical way invented the art of biography. Aubrey was born in Wiltshire, England, in 1626. The reign of Queen Elizabeth and, earlier, the dissolution of the monasteries were not too far distant in memory during his boyhood. He lived through England’s Civil War, the execution of Charles I, the brief rule of Oliver Cromwell and his son, and the restoration of Charles II. Experiencing these constitutional crises and regime changes, Aubrey was impassioned by the preservation of traces of Ancient Britain, of English monuments, manor houses, monasteries, abbeys, and churches. He was a natural philosopher, an antiquary, a book collector, and a chronicler of the world around him and of the lives of his friends, both men and women. His method of writing was characteristic of his manner: modest, self-deprecating, witty, and concerned above all with the collection of facts that would otherwise be lost to time. John Aubrey, My Own Life is an extraordinary book about the first modern biographer, which reimagines what biography can be. This intimate diary of Aubrey’s days is composed of his own words, collected, collated, and enlarged upon by Ruth Scurr in an act of meticulous scholarship and daring imagination. Scurr’s biography honors and echoes Aubrey’s own innovations in the art of biography. Rather than subject his life to a conventional narrative, Scurr has collected the evidence—the remnants of a life from manuscripts, letters, and books—and arranged it chronologically, modernizing words and spellings, and adding explanations when necessary, with sources provided in the extensive endnotes. Here are Aubrey’s intricate drawings of Stonehenge and the ancient Avebury stones; Aubrey on Charles I’s execution (“On this day, the King was executed. It was bitter cold, so he wore two heavy shirts, lest he should shiver and seem afraid”); and Aubrey on antiquity (“Matters of antiquity are like the light after sunset—clear at first—but by and by crepusculum—the twilight—comes—then total darkness”). From the darkness, Scurr has wrested a vibrant, intimate account of the life of an ingenious man.
Author : John Britton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z18144770X
Author : John Britton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003665952
Author : John Britton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026878420
Author : John Britton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044017926536
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CUB:U183015820669
Author : John Aubrey
Publisher : Random House
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473521735
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RUTH SCURR John Aubrey was a modest man, a self-styled antiquarian and the man who invented modern biography. His ‘lives’ of the prominent figures of his generation and the Elizabethan era, including Shakespeare, Milton and Sir Walter Raleigh, have been plundered by historians for centuries for their frankness and fascinating detail. Collected here are all of Aubrey’s biographical writings, a series of unforgettable portraits of the characters of his day, still more alive and kicking than in any conventional work of history.
Author : London Institution. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Classified catalogs
ISBN : NWU:35556000616060
Author : Liverpool (England). Public Libraries, Museums, and Art Gallery. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044080253628
Author : Angus Vine
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191585074
In Defiance of Time explores the emergence of antiquarianism in early modern England, from its first flourishing in the mid-Tudor period through to its seventeenth-century heyday. A vibrant antiquarian culture emerged, which reached beyond scholarly and historical circles, and had a profound influence on the literature and thought of the period. Examining the influences on that development of that culture, this book argues that the origins of English antiquarianism need to be found in the methods and practices of continental (and especially Italian) humanism. It shows that, like the humanists, the early antiquaries had the essentially imaginative aim of resurrecting and recomposing the past and past societies 'in defiance of time'. The antiquaries conceived of themselves and their activities as bridging the gap between past and present, affording 'olden time' presence in this way so that it might speak to and inform present circumstances. At the heart of this book is the argument that the antiquarian project depended on the antiquaries' capacity to restore-in their imagination at least-the fragments of the past, to imagine those remnants of history 'which have casually escaped the shipwrack of time' made whole once again. In Defiance of Time traces these arguments through a range of authors and material, both printed and in manuscript. Chapters advance original readings of important authors such as Leland, Stow, Spenser, Camden, Drayton, and Selden, as well as shedding light on institutions such as the Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries and reviewing the wide range of activities, interests, and concerns that came under the antiquarian purview. Antiquarianism is thereby shown to be integral to early modern literary and intellectual culture.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951002476437U
Author : Edward Duke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Druid temples
ISBN : BSB:BSB10279660
Author : John Mozley STARK
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018229628