Author: John MasefieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
An English Prose Miscellany
Author: John MasefieldA Celtic Miscellany
Author: Kenneth JacksonPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141935235
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx, this Celtic Miscellany offers a rich blend of poetry and prose from the eighth to the nineteenth century, and provides a unique insight into the minds and literature of the Celtic people. It is a literature dominated by a deep sense of wonder, wild inventiveness and a profound sense of the uncanny, in which the natural world and the power of the individual spirit are celebrated with astonishing imaginative force. Skifully arranged by theme, from the hero-tales of Cú Chulainn, Bardic poetry and elegies, to the sensitive and intimate writings of early Celtic Christianity, this anthology provides a fascinating insight into a deeply creative literary tradition.
The British Magazine, Or, Miscellany of Polite Literature Comprehending an Analysis of Modern Publications
Author: A Mariner's Miscellany
Author: Peter H. SpectrePublisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 9781574091953
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This book is both an engaging compendium of nautical knowledge and a random accounting of the ways of the sea. It is the product of Peter H. Spectre's lifelong fascination with the sea, a guide to the good, the bad, and the ugly of a way of life that is as old as civilization.
English Miscellany
Author: Tottel's Miscellany
Author: Amanda HoltonPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014193378X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Songs and Sonnets (1557), the first printed anthology of English poetry, was immensely influential in Tudor England, and inspired major Elizabethan writers including Shakespeare. Collected by pioneering publisher Richard Tottel, it brought poems of the aristocracy - verses of friendship, war, politics, death and above all of love - into wide common readership for the first time. The major poets of Henry VIII's court, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, were first printed in the volume. Wyatt's intimate poem about lost love which begins 'They flee from me, that sometime did me seke', and Surrey's passionate sonnet 'Complaint of a lover rebuked' are joined in the miscellany by a large collection of diverse, intriguingly anonymous poems both moral and erotic, intimate and universal.
The Miscellany of the Spanish Golden Age
Author: Jonathan David BradburyPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317023927
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Taking up the invitation extended by tentative attempts over the past three decades to construct a functioning definition of the genre, Jonathan Bradbury traces the development of the vernacular miscellany in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Spanish-America. In the first full-length study of this commercially successful and intellectually significant genre, Bradbury underlines the service performed by the miscellanists as disseminators of knowledge and information to a popular readership. His comprehensive analysis of the miscelánea corrects long-standing misconceptions, starting from its poorly-understood terminology, and erects divisions between it and other related genres. His work illuminates the relationship between the Golden Age Spanish miscellany and those of the classical world and humanist milieu, and illustrates how the vernacular tradition moved away from these forebears. Bradbury examines in particular the later inclusion of explicitly fictional components, such as poetic compositions and short prose fiction, alongside the vulgarisation of erudite or inaccessible prose material, which was the primary function of the earlier Spanish miscellanies. He tackles the flexibility of the miscelánea as a genre by assessing the conceptual, thematic and formal aspects of such works, and exploring the interaction of these features. As a result, a genre model emerges, through which Golden Age works with fragmentary and non-continuous contents can better be interpreted and classified.
Poetry, Prose and Miscellaneous Musings
Author: Dr. Kellie N. KirkseyPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462867871
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
This book is a collection of writings taken from my journals. It is my hope that these words may encourage others to tell their unique stories. Sharing our stories heals old wounds and encourages growth and transformation through increased self awareness.This book of poems is a realization of my childhood dream. May you pursue the desires of your heart. Embrace your passion, and live your dreams.
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 5, Index
Author: George WatsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521213103
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
More than fifty specialists have contributed to the new edition of volume 5 of the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Catalogue of English Literature, Poetic, Dramatic, Historic, Miscellaneous
Author: Bernard QuaritchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description