Author: William HayleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of William Hayley ... The Friend and Biographer of Cowper, Written by Himself. With Extracts from His Private Corresondence and Unpublished Poetry. And Memoirs of His Son Thomas Alphonso Hayley, the Young Sculptor
Author: William HayleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Memoirs of the Life and Writing of William Hayley, Esq. the Friend and Biographer of Cowper, Written by Himself ... Ed. by John Johnson
Author: William HayleyMemoirs of Lieutenant-General Sir --- including his correspondence ...
Author: Thomas PICTONResisting Napoleon
Author: Mark PhilpPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351903853
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The long war with Revolutionary France had a fundamental impact on British political culture. The most dramatic example of this is the mass mobilisation of the British people in response to French invasion threats throughout the last years of the century but, most spectacularly, in the period 1803-5, after the collapse of the Peace of Amiens, and the massing of an invasion fleet by Napoleon. The preparations for the threatened invasion had many dimensions including military and naval mobilization, the development of defensive earthworks and fortifications on the British Coast, the surveillance and monitoring of radicals identified with the French cause, the incitement of loyalist sentiment through caricature, newspapers, tracts and broadsides, and loyalist songs, and the construction of Napoleon as the prime enemy of British interests. Although aspects of these issues have been studied, this book is the first time that they have been brought together systematically. By bringing together historians of Britain and France to examine the dynamics of the military conflict between the two nations in this period, this book measures its impact on their domestic political cultures, and its effect on their perceptions of each other. In so doing it will encourage scholars to further examine aspects of popular mobilisation which have hitherto been largely ignored, such as the resurgence of loyalism in 1803, and to see their contributions in the light of the dual contexts of domestic political conflict and their war with each other. By allowing scholars to focus their attention on this period of heightened tension, the book contributes both new detail to our understanding of the period and a better overall understanding of the complex place which each nation came to occupy in the consciousness of the other.
Hints to Young Medical Officers of the Army on the Examination of Recruits
Author: Henry MarshallThe Quarterly Review
Author: William GiffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The London Quarterly Review
Author: Popular Lectures on the Prophecies Relative to the Jewish Nation
Author: Hugh McNeileBeastly Blake
Author: Helen P. BruderPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319897888
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Blake’s ‘Human Form Divine’ has long commanded the spotlight. Beastly Blake shifts focus to the non-human creatures who populate Blake’s poetry and designs. The author of ‘The Tyger’ and ‘The Lamb’ was equally struck by the ‘beastliness’ and the beauty of the animal kingdom, the utter otherness of animal subjectivity and the meaningful relationships between humans and other creatures. ‘Conversing with the Animal forms of wisdom night & day’, Blake fathomed how much they have to teach us about creation and eternity. This collection ranges from real animals in Blake’s surroundings, to symbolic creatures in his mythology, to animal presences in his illustrations of Virgil, Dante, Hayley, and Stedman. It makes a third to follow Queer Blake and Sexy Blake in irreverently illuminating blind spots in Blake criticism. Beastly Blake will reward lovers of Blake’s writing and visual art, as well as those interested in Romanticism and animal studies.
Blake in Our Time
Author: Karen MulhallenPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442641517
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Blake in Our Time explores the work of British poet and artist William Blake in the context of the material culture of his era. In the 1960s, University of Toronto scholar G.E. Bentley, Jr almost singlehandedly shifted the focus of Blake criticism from formalism and symbolism to the materiality that contextualizes Blake's work. Following in the footsteps of Bentley's pioneering scholarship, this collection, richly illustrated, demonstrates that the locus of Blake's work lies in the elements that are historically particular to his place and time. Topics include the impact of the town of Chichester on Blake's imagination, the material processes of Blake's painting, the detection of a Blake forgery, and new biographical materials, using archives and online resources, on Blake's contemporaries, patrons, peers, and friends. Essays on the importance of Blake collections world-wide, on variant printings, and on the heirs of Blake in British painting extend the focus of this remarkable investigation to include chalcography and book history.