Author: David Watson (Baker in Lundin Links.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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"God Speed the Plough." [A Poem.].
Author: David Watson (Baker in Lundin Links.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
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God Speed the Plough
Author: Andrew McRaePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521524667
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
An interdisciplinary analysis of the history and literature of the land in early modern England.
Pierce the ploughmans crede, transcr. and ed., to which is appended, God spede the plough; by W.W. Skeat
Author: Piers PlowmanSpeed-the-plow
Author: David MametPublisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573690815
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Charlie Fox has a terrific vehicle for a hot male movie star, and he has brought it to his friend Bobby Gould, head of production for a major film company. Both see the script as a ticket to the really big table where the power is. The star wants to do it; all they have to do is pitch it to their boss in the morning. Meanwhile, Bobby bets Charlie that he can seduce the secretary temp. As a ruse, he has given her a novel "by some Eastern sissy writer" that he is supposed to read before saying "thanks but no thanks." She is determined that the novel, not the trite vehicle, should be the company's next project. When she does sleep with Bobby, he finds the experience is so transmogrifying that Charlie must plead with Bobby not to pitch the sissy film. - Publisher's note.
The Old World: a Poem in Five Parts. With Miscellaneous Poems
Author: George MACCRIEHours in a Public Library
Author: Henry F. EurenGainsborough's Vision
Author: Amal AsfourPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780853238744
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Thomas Gainsborough, one of the most popular British painters, has been celebrated as a landscapist, a portrait painter, and a man of feeling whose impetuous character is revealed in his art, life and letters. This book reveals that the style, themes and ideas of Gainsborough’s paintings constitute purposeful expressions of an intellectual and visual culture whose importance in the development of eighteenth-century British art has gone unrecognized. "Amal Asfour and Paul Williamson have set out to make us look more knowledgeably at the paintings of Gainsborough... their treatment is richly informative."—George Steiner, The Observer "Asfour and Williamson display a profound knowledge of 18th-century aesthetics... a highly stimulating book."—The British Art Journal
Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety
Author: Christine BarrettPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198816871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This fascinating study explores how Renaissance-era maps fascinated people with their beauty and precision yet they also unnerved readers and writers. The volume shows how late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets channelled the anxieties provoked by maps and mapping, creating a new way of thinking about how literature represents space.
Forster Collection
Author: South Kensington Museum. Forster CollectionPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Empiricist Devotions
Author: Courtney Weiss SmithPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813938392
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Featuring a moment in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England before the disciplinary divisions that we inherit today were established, Empiricist Devotions recovers a kind of empiricist thinking in which the techniques and emphases of science, religion, and literature combined and cooperated. This brand of empiricism was committed to particularized scrutiny and epistemological modesty. It was Protestant in its enabling premises and meditative practices. It earnestly affirmed that figurative language provided crucial tools for interpreting the divinely written world. Smith recovers this empiricism in Robert Boyle’s analogies, Isaac Newton’s metaphors, John Locke’s narratives, Joseph Addison’s personifications, Daniel Defoe’s diction, John Gay’s periphrases, and Alexander Pope’s descriptive particulars. She thereby demonstrates that "literary" language played a key role in shaping and giving voice to the concerns of eighteenth-century science and religion alike. Empiricist Devotions combines intellectual history with close readings of a wide variety of texts, from sermons, devotional journals, and economic tracts to georgic poems, it-narratives, and microscopy treatises. This prizewinning book has important implications for our understanding of cultural and literary history, as scholars of the period’s science have not fully appreciated figurative language’s central role in empiricist thought, while scholars of its religion and literature have neglected the serious empiricist commitments motivating richly figurative devotional and poetic texts. Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century Studies