The Lyre

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771027888

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The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies Pdf

Hailed as a literary masterpiece, Robertson Davies' The Cornish Trilogy comes to a brilliant conclusion in The Lyre of Orpheus. Available as an eBook for the first time. There is an important decision to be made. The Cornish Foundation is thriving under the directorship of Arthur Cornish when Arthur and his beguiling wife, Maria Theotoky, decide to undertake a project worthy of Francis Cornish– connoisseur, collector, and notable eccentric–whose vast fortune endows the Foundation. The grumpy, grimy, extraordinarily talented music student Hulda Schnakenburg is commissioned to complete E.T.A. Hoffmann’s unfinished opera Arthur of Britain, or The Magnanimous Cuckold; and the scholarly priest Simon Darcourt finds himself charged with writing the libretto. Complications both practical and emotional arise: the gypsy in Maria’s blood rises with a vengeance; Darcourt stoops to petty crime; and various others indulge in perjury, blackmail, and other unsavory pursuits. Hoffmann’s dictum, “the lyre of Orpheus opens the door of the underworld,” seems to be all too true—especially when the long-hidden secrets of Francis Cornish himself are finally revealed. Baroque and deliciously funny, this third book in The Cornish Trilogy shows Robertson Davies at his very considerable best.

Author : Mary Savelli
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1466270527

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The Lyre Handbook by Mary Savelli Pdf

The Anglo-Saxon lyre was once used to accompany poetry throughout England. Unfortunately, it faded from favor after the harp gained popularity in the 9th and 10th centuries. Few records were left about its construction and playing techniques. The Lyre Handbook combines information from a variety of sources to help the musician or historian who is new to the lyre. It includes instructions for constructing a basic lyre and two methods of playing are taught with drills and simple songs. This booklet also contains a bibliography that can help you with further research. With this booklet, you can be one of the people rediscovering the lyre.

Author : Lyre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : English poetry
ISBN : BL:A0026856890

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The Lyre by Lyre Pdf

Author : Loftus Jestin
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781512803228

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The Answer to the Lyre by Loftus Jestin Pdf

In 1753 Robert Dodsley published Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray. Sponsored by Horace Walpole, this luxurious quarto was the first major aesthetic expression of the Strawberry Hill circle and a landmark in English book illustration. Kenneth Clarke called it "the most graceful monument to Gothic Rococo." Its witty interplay between illustration and text anticipated Blake, who studied it some thirty years later. Among its poems is Gray's famous Elegy Written in a Courtly Church-Yard. Loftus Jestin offers a facsimile of Designs (out of print since 1786) and a full-length interdisciplinary study of the collaboration of Bentley, Gray, and Walpole that produced this extraordinary book. He shows the way poems and illustration at once complement, compete with and invigorate each other, and he examines Strawberry Hill. Walpole's house at Twickenham, where Bentley's genius flourished. He also considers the interplay of the sister arts in the work of Hogarth, Kent, and Pine, and surveys the tastes, friendships, economics, and politics that helped shape the development of Bentley's book illustrations.

Author : Ardath Mayhar
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781434402448

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Runes of the Lyre by Ardath Mayhar Pdf

"Created by the powerful Hasyisi, yet missing for centuries from its home world, the Lyre just hangs in a willow tree, waiting.. Hasyih, the Heart of the Worlds, links contiguous dimensions, many worlds invisible to each other, yet accessible through doors on Hasyih, one of the keys to which is the Lyre. Now danger threatens both Hasyih and Ranuit, the only inhabited worlds in the group, and when a young girl takes the Lyre from the willow tree, a set of interlinked activities is set into motion. Moving from world to world, going into the hands of the one who needs it most at the time, the Lyre reveals its nature as not only a Key, but also as a Weapon, an Enigma, an Answer, and a resolution, affecting both Hasyih and Ranuit. And the girl Queen Yisri is the center of it all."

Author : John Grover Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000005978786

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The Lyre of My Mouth by John Grover Wilson Pdf

Author : Sydney Avey
Publisher : Light Messages Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781611532661

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The Lyre and the Lambs by Sydney Avey Pdf

A feast of family can be a plate load of problems! It’s the Sixties. Modernity and tradition clash as two newlywed couples set up house together. Dee and her daughter Valerie move with their husbands into a modern glass house Valerie built in a proudly rural Los Altos, California, neighborhood. When their young relatives start showing up and moving in, the neighbors get suspicious. Then a body is found in the backyard and the life they are trying to build comes undone. Father Mike is back to guide Dee through a difficult time with humor and grace, even as his own life is unraveling. Now he’s going to have to take some of his own advice about love. The sequel to The Sheep Walker s Daughter, The Lyre and the Lambs explores the passions that draw people together and the faith it takes overcome trauma.

Author : Lyre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000348220

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The Lyre: a Collection of the Most Approved English, Irish, and Scottish Songs, Ancient and Modern by Lyre Pdf

Author : Thomas Ragg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000371122

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The Lyre of Zion; a Selection of Poems by Thomas Ragg Pdf

Author : Thomas RAGG
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Devotional poetry
ISBN : BL:A0020498158

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The Lyre of Zion; a Selection of Poems, Sacred and Devotional, from Ancient and Modern Authors by Thomas RAGG Pdf

Author : Jane M Snyder
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780809335961

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The Woman and the Lyre by Jane M Snyder Pdf

Beginning with Sappho in the seventh century B.C.E and ending with Egeria in the fifth century C.E., Snyder profiles ancient Greek and Roman women writers, including lyric and elegiac poets and philosophers and other prose writers. The writers are allowed to speak for themselves, with as much translation from their extant works provided in text as possible. In addition to giving readers biographical and cultural context for the writers and their works, Snyder refutes arguments representing prejudicial attitudes about women’s writing found in the scholarly literature. Covering writers from a wide historical span, this volume provides an engaging and informative introduction to the origins of the tradition of women’s writing in the West.

Author : Blake Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108488075

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Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy by Blake Wilson Pdf

The first comprehensive study of the dominant form of solo singing in Renaissance Italy prior to the mid-sixteenth century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Christian poetry, English
ISBN : NYPL:33433074834023

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The Sacred Lyre by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Baker,Ann Townsend
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UCSC:32106018944840

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Radiant Lyre by David Baker,Ann Townsend Pdf

"These essays explore the history of the lyric poem, its rhetorical modes and strategies. It gives the contemporary reader a sense of the origin, evolution, and present status of the modes and means of lyric poetry."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Diane J. Rayor
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1991-08-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520910966

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Sappho's Lyre by Diane J. Rayor Pdf

Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric, new forms of poetry emerged. In this unique anthology, today's reader can enjoy the works of seventeen poets, including a selection of archaic lyric and the complete surviving works of the ancient Greek women poets—the latter appearing together in one volume for the first time. Sappho's Lyre is a combination of diligent research and poetic artistry. The translations are based on the most recent discoveries of papyri (including "new" Archilochos and Stesichoros) and the latest editions and scholarship. The introduction and notes provide historical and literary contexts that make this ancient poetry more accessible to modern readers. Although this book is primarily aimed at the reader who does not know Greek, it would be a splendid supplement to a Greek language course. It will also have wide appeal for readers of' ancient literature, women's studies, mythology, and lovers of poetry.