Author: John DrydenPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Alexander's feast ... And an additional new act, call'd the choice of Hercules adapted from a poem-by Robert Lowth?-contained in “Polymetis”, by Joseph Spence . Both set to musick by Mr. Handel
Author: John DrydenA History of Literary Criticism
Author: Harry BlamiresPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1349214957
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
The author traces the course of literary criticism from its foundations in classical and medieval precepts to the theorising of the present day. He explores the texts which have been milestones in the history of critical thought, placing them firmly in the context of their time.
Six North Country Diaries
Author: John Crawford HodgsonPublisher:
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Category : Diaries
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A Picturesque Tour of the River Thames in Its Western Course
Author: John Fisher MurrayLaocoon; Or The Limits of Poetry and Painting
Author: Gotthold Ephraim LessingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Celtic Druids
Author: Godfrey HigginsPublisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1602066701
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 533
Book Description
Or, An Attempt to show, that The Druids were the Priests of Oriental Colonies Who Emigrated from India; and were the Introducers of the First or Cadmean System of Letters, and the Builders of Stonehenge, of Carnac, and of Other Cyclopean Works, in Asia and Europe. Complete with many informative prints and maps. Partial Contents: Necessity of Etymology; Alphabets; Changes in Language; Druids acquainted with Letters; Irish, Greek, and Hebrew Letters the same; Hieroglyphics; Ciphering invented before Letters; Virgil a Druid; Genesis; Persia, India, and China, the Depositaries, not the Inventors of Science; Who the Celtf were; Affinity between the Latin, Sanscrit, and Celtic; Term Barbarian; Arrival of Phoenician Colonies in Ireland; Origin of Irish Fables; Derivation of the word Britain; Hero Gods; Derivation of the words: Albion, Druid, Vates and Bards; Britain known to Aristotle; Road to Britain lost, like that to America and Australia; magnetic Needle; Ancient Oracles founded by Celtf; Druids probably Pythagoreans; Cross common to Greeks, Egyptians, and Indians; Monograms of Christ; Druids admitted the Creation of Matter; Festivals removed by the precession of the Equinoxes; Druid Festival of Christmas; Mother of the Gods; Baal; Gods of India and Ireland the same; Chaldees of the Jews; St. Patrick; A single Plain Stone the Origin of Idolatry; Rocking-Stones or Logan Stones; Circular Temples, Stonehenge and Abury; Stonehenge not a Roman, Saxon, or Danish Work; Ancient Superstitions respecting Numbers; Observations on Hebrew Chronology; Hierarchy of the Druids; Druids Assertors of their Country's Liberty; Immortality of the Soul and Metempsychosis; Druids had an excellent System ofMorals; Mistletoe and other Sacred Plants; Institution of Priesthoods an Evil.
A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Pope
Author: Edwin AbbottPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Environs of London
Author: John Fisher MurrayPublisher:
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
English Gothic Literature
Author: Derek BrewerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1349170372
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
The centuries between 1100 and 1500 were the crucible in which English language and literature, after the blow of the Norman Conquest, were reformed with results that affected all later times. The national language and literary culture were reconstructed influences. The medieval centuries present a fascinating success story of recovery, inventiveness and major achievement in all aspects of national life. In literature, lyric verse, narrative poetry, drama and discursive prose were all established in characteristic modes. In the present book many works are discussed, while such masterpieces as the works of Chaucer, Langland's Piers Plowman, the poems of the Gawain-poet and Malory's Morte Darthur are shown as the secular equivalent in words of the great medieval Gothic cathedrals. The forms of this varied body of literature had as characteristic a period style as contemporary Gothic art and architecture themselves. English literature may equally be described as Gothic, with assumptions and achievements which both lead to and contrast with later Neoclassical styles. Black and white photographic illustrations further the comparison and suggest some background. English Gothic literature derives from many interrelated social context - court, town, monastery and countryside. It was recorded in manuscripts that blend the qualities of popular speech and folktale with some of the more impersonal regular qualities of printing, that last of fundamental medieval inventions. In this new concept of the history of medieval literature, Derek Brewer illuminates the major literary works with detailed exposition to make them available to the reader coming fresh to them. At the same time he places them in the context of developing literacy and individualism, secular realism, romantic love, personal religion, etc., setting forth a coherent framework of cultural history which will challenge the interest of those who already know the period.
The Holkham Collection of Classical Sculptures
Author: Elizabeth AngelicoussisPublisher: Philipp Von Zabern
ISBN:
Category : Marble sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description