Author: John KeatsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Letters
Author: John KeatsReynolds Pamphlet
Author: Alexander HamiltonPublisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513297112
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
The Reynolds Pamphlet (1797) is an essay by Alexander Hamilton. Written while Hamilton was serving as Secretary of the Treasury, the Pamphlet was intended as a defense against accusations that Hamilton had conspired with James Reynolds to misuse funds meant to cover unpaid wages to Revolutionary War veterans. Admitting to an affair with Maria, Reynolds’ wife, Hamilton claims that the accusation is nothing more than an attempt at blackmail. This revelation not only endangered Hamilton’s career as a public figure, but constituted perhaps the earliest sex scandal in American history. “The bare perusal of the letters from Reynolds and his wife is sufficient to convince my greatest enemy that there is nothing worse in the affair than an irregular and indelicate amour. For this, I bow to the just censure which it merits. I have paid pretty severely for the folly and can never recollect it without disgust and self condemnation. It might seem affectation to say more.” Accused of corruption in his role as Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton was forced to confess his adultery, bringing shame to himself as a married man and supposedly honorable public figure, yet saving his political career in the process. Looking back on his affair with Maria Reynolds from a distance of five years, Hamilton expresses regret for his foolishness, yet wholeheartedly denies her husband’s accusation that he had been involved in his scheme to misuse government funds. Perhaps the first sex scandal in American history, the Reynolds affair sent shockwaves throughout the burgeoning republic, leaving many to question the motives and character of their leaders for the first time, though certainly not the last. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Alexander Hamilton’s Reynolds Pamphlet is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.
The Letters of John Hamilton Reynolds
Author: John Hamilton ReynoldsPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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The Letters of John Hamilton Reynolds
Author: John Hamilton ReynoldsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780835738118
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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The Life of John Hamilton Reynolds
Author: Leonidas M. JonesPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Selected Letters of John Keats
Author: John KeatsPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674039391
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The letters of John Keats are, T. S. Eliot remarked, "what letters ought to be; the fine things come in unexpectedly, neither introduced nor shown out, but between trifle and trifle." This new edition, which features four rediscovered letters, three of which are being published here for the first time, affords readers the pleasure of the poet's "trifles" as well as the surprise of his most famous ideas emerging unpredictably. Unlike other editions, this selection includes letters to Keats and among his friends, lending greater perspective to an epistolary portrait of the poet. It also offers a revealing look at his "posthumous existence," the period of Keats's illness in Italy, painstakingly recorded in a series of moving letters by Keats's deathbed companion, Joseph Severn. Other letters by Dr. James Clark, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Richard Woodhouse--omitted from other selections of Keats's letters--offer valuable additional testimony concerning Keats the man. Edited for greater readability, with annotations reduced and punctuation and spelling judiciously modernized, this selection recreates the spontaneity with which these letters were originally written.
The Letters of John Keats
Author: John KeatsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends
Author: John KeatsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autobiographies
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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The Poems of John Keats
Author: John KeatsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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