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Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
The Critic
Author: Touched With Fire
Author: Kay Redfield JamisonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439106630
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The definitive work on the profound and surprising links between manic-depression and creativity, from the bestselling psychologist of bipolar disorders who wrote An Unquiet Mind. One of the foremost psychologists in America, “Kay Jamison is plainly among the few who have a profound understanding of the relationship that exists between art and madness” (William Styron). The anguished and volatile intensity associated with the artistic temperament was once thought to be a symptom of genius or eccentricity peculiar to artists, writers, and musicians. Her work, based on her study as a clinical psychologist and researcher in mood disorders, reveals that many artists subject to exalted highs and despairing lows were in fact engaged in a struggle with clinically identifiable manic-depressive illness. Jamison presents proof of the biological foundations of this disease and applies what is known about the illness to the lives and works of some of the world's greatest artists including Lord Byron, Vincent Van Gogh, and Virginia Woolf.
The Critic
Author: Jeannette Leonard GilderPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The Churchman
Author: English Poetry and Prose of the Romantic Movement
Author: George Benjamin WoodsPublisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 1488
Book Description
Mamerto Gueritz
Author: David Gunn-JohnsonPublisher: Sacristy Press
ISBN: 1789593123
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The life of Mamerto Gueritz, an Anglo-Catholic priest in the West Country during the ritualist controversy of the late nineteenth century.
The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson: 1821-1850
Author: Alfred Tennyson Baron TennysonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674525832
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Many years in preparation, this first volume of Lang and Shannon's edition of Tennyson's correspondence lives up to all expectations. In a comprehensive introduction the editors present not only the biographical background, with vivid portrayals of the dramatis personae, but also the story of the manuscripts, the ones that were destroyed and the many that luckily survived. The Tennyson who emerges in this volume is not a serene or Olympian figure. He is moody, impulsive, often reckless, now full of camaraderie, now plagued by anxiety or resentment, deeply attached to close friends and family and uninterested in the social scene. His early life is unenviable: we see glimpses of the embittered, drunken father, the distraught mother, the swarm of siblings in the rectory at Somersby in Lincolnshire. The happiest period is the three years at Cambridge, terminated when his father dies, and the two years thereafter, with Arthur Hallam engaged to his sister and a frequent visitor at their house. The shock of Hallam's death in 1833, coupled with the savage attack on Tennyson's poems in the Quarterly Review, is followed by depression, bouts of alcoholism, financial problems, and gradually, in the 1840s, increasing recognition of his work. The year 1850 sees the publication of In Memoriam, his long-deferred marriage at age forty to Emily Seliwood, and his acceptance, not without misgivings, of the post of Poet Laureate. The editors have garnered and selected a large number of letters to and about Tennyson which supplement his own letters, fill in lacunae in the narrative, and reveal him to us as his friends and contemporaries saw him.
The Wreck at Sharpnose Point
Author: Jeremy SealPublisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1509815740
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This is a captivating mystery of the best kind - the sort that really happened. While walking through a cliff-top graveyard in the village of Morwenstow on the coast of Cornwall, Jeremy Seal stumbled across a wooden figurehead which once adorned the Caledonia, a ship wrecked on the coast below in 1842. Through further investigation, he began to suspect the locals, and in particular the parson, Robert Hawker, of luring the ship to her destruction on Cornwall's jagged shore. Wrecking is known to have been widespread along several stretches of England's coast. But is that what happened in Morwenstow? Seal weaves history, travelogue and vivid imaginative reconstruction into a marvellous piece of detective work.
Record of Christian Work
Author: Alexander McConnellPublisher:
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
Includes music.
Author: Mortimer Collins