Author: William Lisle BowlesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Lessons in Criticism to William Roscoe in Answer to His Letter to the Reverend W.L. Bowles on the Character and Poetry of Pope
Author: William Lisle BowlesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The Last American Aristocrat
Author: David S. BrownPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982128240
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
A “marvelous…compelling” (The New York Times Book Review) biography of literary icon Henry Adams—one of America’s most prominent writers and intellectuals, who witnessed and contributed to the United States’ dramatic transition from a colonial society to a modern nation. Henry Adams is perhaps the most eclectic, accomplished, and important American writer of his time. His autobiography and modern classic The Education of Henry Adams was widely considered one of the best English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. The last member of his distinguished family—after great-grandfather John Adams, and grandfather John Quincy Adams—to gain national attention, he is remembered today as an historian, a political commentator, and a memoirist. Now, historian David Brown sheds light on the brilliant yet under-celebrated life of this major American intellectual. Adams not only lived through the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution but he met Abraham Lincoln, bowed before Queen Victoria, and counted Secretary of State John Hay, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and President Theodore Roosevelt as friends and neighbors. His observations of these powerful men and their policies in his private letters provide a penetrating assessment of Gilded Age America on the cusp of the modern era. “Thoroughly researched and gracefully written” (The Wall Street Journal), The Last American Aristocrat details Adams’s relationships with his wife (Marian “Clover” Hooper) and, following her suicide, Elizabeth Cameron, the young wife of a senator and part of the famous Sherman clan from Ohio. Henry Adams’s letters—thousands of them—demonstrate his struggles with depression, familial expectations, and reconciling with his unwanted widower’s existence. Offering a fresh window on nineteenth century US history, as well as a more “modern” and “human” Henry Adams than ever before, The Last American Aristocrat is a “standout portrait of the man and his era” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
The Correspondence
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814794262
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
General Series Editors: Gay Wilson Allen and Sculley Bradley Originally published between 1961 and 1984, and now available in paperback for the first time, the critically acclaimed Collected Writings of Walt Whitman captures every facet of one of America's most important poets. In discussing letter-writing, Whitman made his own views clear. Simplicity and naturalness were his guidelines. “I like my letters to be personal—very personal—and then stop.” The six volumes in The Correspondence comprise nearly 3,000 letters written over a half century, revealing Whitman the person as no other documents can. This supplement updates the Correspondence with nearly 100 letters that appeared after the publication of the first five volumes. Featured in this volume is the earliest known extant letter from the poet, written in 1841, as well as many others documenting Whitman's personal relationships and publishing ventures, both in America and abroad. Volume VI also includes a detailed analysis of Whitman's income and finances over the last twenty-six years of his life. With a list of corrections and additions to Volumes I–V and a Composite Index of all Whitman's letters, this volume completes the definitive edition of the correspondence of America's greatest poet.
Theodore Roosevelt and His Time Shown in His Own Letters
Author: Joseph Bucklin BishopPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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The Letters of Horace Furness
Author: Horace Howard FurnessPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Theodore Roosevelt and His Time Shown in His Own Letters: Railway rate law
Author: Joseph Bucklin BishopPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The Letters of Horace Howard Furness
Author: Horace Howard FurnessPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
William Roscoe of Liverpool
Author: William RoscoePublisher:
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Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
"The British School of Sculpture, c.1760-1832 "
Author: Sarah BurnagePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351545833
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The British School of Sculpture, c. 1760?1832 represents the first edited collection exploring one of the most significant moments in British art history, returning to centre stage a wide range of sculpture considered for the first time by some of the most important scholars in the field. Following a historical and historiographical introduction by the editors, situating British sculpture in relation to key events and developments in the period, and the broader scholarship on British art more generally in the period and beyond, the book contains nine wide-ranging case studies that consider the place of antique and modern sculpture in British country houses in the period, monuments to heroes of commerce and the Napoleonic Wars, the key debates fought around ideal sculpture at the Royal Academy, the reception of British sculpture across Europe, the reception of Hindu sculpture deriving from India in Britain, and the relationship of sculpture to emerging industrial markets, both at home and abroad. Challenging characterisations of the period as 'neoclassical', the volume reveals British sculpture to be a much more eclectic and various field of endeavour, both in service of the state and challenging it, and open to sources ranging from the newly arrived Parthenon Frieze to contemporary print culture.
A Global History of Anti-Slavery Politics in the Nineteenth Century
Author: W. MulliganPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 113703260X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The abolition of slavery across large parts of the world was one of the most significant transformations in the nineteenth century, shaping economies, societies, and political institutions. This book shows how the international context was essential in shaping the abolition of slavery.