Author: VirgilPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 484
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The Works of Virgil
Author: VirgilThe Sayings of the Great Forty Days, between the Resurrection and Ascension, regarded as the outlines of the Kingdom of God: in five sermons
Author: George MOBERLY (Bishop of Salisbury.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 392
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The Sayings of the Great Forty Days, Between the Resurrection and Ascension, Regarded as the Outlines of the Kingdom of God
Author: George MoberlyPublisher:
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Category : Kingdom of God
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
P. Vergili Maronis opera: The first six books of the Aeneid
Author: VirgilThe sayings of the great forty days, between the Resurrection and Ascension, regarded as the outlines of the kingdom of God: in 5 sermons. With an examination of mr. Newman's theory of developments
Author: George MoberlyAn Introduction to the History of English Law
Author: Harold PotterPublisher:
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Category : English law
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Unacknowledged Legislators
Author: Roger PearsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191069418
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
What is the public value of poetry? How do poets envisage their own role and function within society? How do we? Do poets seek to shape public opinion and behaviour? Should they? Or do they offer alternatives—perhaps sacred alternatives—to political and religious ideologies? Are they what Shelley in 1821 called 'the unacknowledged legislators of the World'? And what might that mean? During the decades immediately preceding the Revolution of 1789 the status of contemporary poetry in France was at its lowest ebb. At the same time the perceived power of the writer to influence public events reached a high-water mark with Voltaire's triumphant return to Paris in 1778. In the course of the next century French poetry enjoyed an extraordinary renaissance and flowering, perhaps its greatest. But what of the poet's public influence? In 1881 the people of Paris processed for six hours past the home of Victor Hugo on the occasion of his 79th birthday, and in 1885 an estimated two million people witnessed his state funeral. But who or what were they acknowledging? Poetry or republicanism? Or perhaps their own power? For with each Revolution that passed—1789, 1830, 1848—French poets themselves felt increasingly marginalised. This study addresses the first part of this story and focuses on the role and function of the poet during the so-called Romantic Period. Beginning with an account of the literary climate in pre-revolutionary France it then maps the changes in that climate wrought by the events of the 1789 Revolution. It describes the new politico-literary agendas set by Chateaubriand and others on the monarchist Right, and by Staël and others on the liberal Left. Against this background it then analyses in detail the poetic output and public exploits of the three major French poets of the period: Lamartine, Hugo, and Vigny. The Romantic figure of the poet as prophet and magus is habitually dismissed as a cliché. But by focusing on the role of the poet as lawgiver this book reveals the rich and complex terms in which the public function of poetry was debated in post-revolutionary France - and how amidst the centenary celebrations of 1889, as Romanticism gave way to Symbolism, the poet as lawgiver continued to play a central part in that debate.
Virgil. Aeneid, books v. to xii. With Engl. notes, abridged from prof. Conington's ed. by H. Nettleship and W. Wagner
Author: Publius Vergilius MaroPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Leconte de Lisle's Poems on the Barbarian Races
Author: Alison FairliePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107437873
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Originally published in 1947, this book presents a comprehensive study regarding the Poèmes barbares (1862) of Leconte de Lisle. Two key areas are explored: 'what attracted Leconte de Lisle to the history and mythology of the barbarian races, by what methods and in accordance with what ideas he transformed his material into poetry'. The text is organised in reflection of the different ethnic and tribal groups contained within the poems. Detailed notes are incorporated throughout and a bibliography is also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in French poetry and literary criticism.
Authorship in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: Dustin GriffinPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611494710
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
This book deals with changing conditions and conceptions of authorship in the long eighteenth century, a period said to have witnessed the birth of the modern author. Challenging claims about the public sphere and the professional writer, it engages with recent work on print culture and the history of the book and takes up such under-treated topics as the forms of literary careers and the persistence of the Renaissance “republic of letters” into the “age of authors.”