Author: Harold BillingsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
The Ruins of Eden and Other Witcheries
Author: Harold BillingsRuins and Empire
Author: Laurence GoldsteinPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822976161
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
One of the most common scenes in Augustan and Romantic literature is that of a writer confronting some emblem of change and loss, most often the remains of a vanished civilization or a desolate natural landscape. Ruins and Empire traces the ruin sentiment from its earliest classical and Renaissance expressions through English literature to its establishment as a dominant theme of early American art.
The Story of Man
Author: James William BuelPublisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
The Poetical Works
Author: Thomas MooreThe poetical works of Thomas Moore
Author: Thomas MooreThe Poetical Works of Thomas Moore
Author: Thomas Moore (the Poet.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Collected by Himself
Author: Thomas MooreThe Sunday Magazine
Author: Yaqui Myths and Legends
Author: Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816504671
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Sixty-one tales narrated by Yaquis reflect this people's sense of the sacred and material value of their territory.
The Sumerians
Author: Samuel Noah KramerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226452328
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them. Professor Kramer communicates his enthusiasm for his subject as he outlines the history of the Sumerian civilization and describes their cities, religion, literature, education, scientific achievements, social structure, and psychology. Finally, he considers the legacy of Sumer to the ancient and modern world. "There are few scholars in the world qualified to write such a book, and certainly Kramer is one of them. . . . One of the most valuable features of this book is the quantity of texts and fragments which are published for the first time in a form available to the general reader. For the layman the book provides a readable and up-to-date introduction to a most fascinating culture. For the specialist it presents a synthesis with which he may not agree but from which he will nonetheless derive stimulation."—American Journal of Archaeology "An uncontested authority on the civilization of Sumer, Professor Kramer writes with grace and urbanity."—Library Journal