Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books (etc.)
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Milton and His England
Author: Don Marion WolfePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400871867
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
In narrative and some 120 pictures, Don M. Wolfe traces Milton's life in the context of the public events and common scenes of his time. His illustrations and vignettes, supported by passages from the history of the period as well as the poet's own writings, bring to life the people, politics, and society of seventeenth-century England: maidens carrying fresh cream and cheese on their heads, men with hats and caps to sell; the Long Parliament of 1640; Charles I's summary trial and execution; Cromwell's Protectorate; the London Plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of 1666; the publication of Paradise Lost. The principal figure is, of course, John Milton, seen first as a boy of ten, sober and confident, even "then a poet." He is seen also as a traveler to the continent in 1638-1639, when he filled his mind with scenes and places that he would use in Paradise Lost: the sulphuric Phlegraean Fields outside Naples; Galileo, the "Tuscan artist" with optic glass. Milton the revolutionary is described, the libertarian pamphleteer whose passionate cry that every man had the right "to know, to utter, to argue freely" was realized around the campfires of the New Model Army. Throughout, Milton is depicted also as the poet aspiring to "leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die"—his creative genius coming forth at last in Paradise Lost and his final major work, Samson Agonistes. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Catalogue of a Most Interesting and Valuable Assemblage of Rare, Curious, and Useful Old Books ...
Author: Joseph LillyThe Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Sotheby, Wilkinson & HodgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Book-prices Current
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
The First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art
Author: Book-prices Current
Author: John Herbert SlaterPublisher:
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature Containing an Account of Rare, Curious and Useful Books, Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing; ...
Author: Lowndes, William Thomas, 1798?-1843Publisher: London : W. Pickering
ISBN:
Category : English literature Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Catalogue
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 2002
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