Author: William Everson
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781574230079
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Written during his time in a monastery, Prodigious Thrust is a work by William Everson that incorporates both prose and poetry with a monastic point of view. According to Everson in his preface, "What was conceived as essentially a book of poetry supported by an autobiographical context, came, through the incorporation of so many digressions, to swell out of all proportion, until the poems survive only as a kind of archipelago awash in an ocean of prose."
Prodigious Thrust
Author: William Everson
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781574230079
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Written during his time in a monastery, Prodigious Thrust is a work by William Everson that incorporates both prose and poetry with a monastic point of view. According to Everson in his preface, "What was conceived as essentially a book of poetry supported by an autobiographical context, came, through the incorporation of so many digressions, to swell out of all proportion, until the poems survive only as a kind of archipelago awash in an ocean of prose."
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781574230079
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Written during his time in a monastery, Prodigious Thrust is a work by William Everson that incorporates both prose and poetry with a monastic point of view. According to Everson in his preface, "What was conceived as essentially a book of poetry supported by an autobiographical context, came, through the incorporation of so many digressions, to swell out of all proportion, until the poems survive only as a kind of archipelago awash in an ocean of prose."
Air Force Magazine
The Catholic Imagination in American Literature
Author: Ross Labrie
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826211101
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A concluding chapter examines the significance of the corpus of Catholic American writing in the years 1940 to 1980, considering it parallel in substance to the body of Jewish American literature of the same period.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826211101
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A concluding chapter examines the significance of the corpus of Catholic American writing in the years 1940 to 1980, considering it parallel in substance to the body of Jewish American literature of the same period.
The Residual Years
Author: William Everson
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781574230550
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This magisterial work of scholarly reconstruction restores the entirety of William Everson's early poetry in a single volume.
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781574230550
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This magisterial work of scholarly reconstruction restores the entirety of William Everson's early poetry in a single volume.
Flying Magazine
Flying Magazine
Tales from China
Author:
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192750785
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This collection of Chinese stories begins with the great legends of how Earth and Heaven came into being. There are folk-tales too, about ghosts, rain-makers, students and magicians, and a man who is nearly made into fishpaste.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192750785
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This collection of Chinese stories begins with the great legends of how Earth and Heaven came into being. There are folk-tales too, about ghosts, rain-makers, students and magicians, and a man who is nearly made into fishpaste.
A Room on the Route
Author: Godfrey Blunden
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1409109011
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
This is the story of lives under the constant scrutiny of the N.K.V.D. Here is a monumental novel that shows how the fantastic Communist will-to-power has led to the enslavement of the Russians themselves. Here are the intellectuals, factory workers, spies, soldiers, big-shot Communists, and plain family people. This is the story of their lives under the constant scrutiny of the N.K.V.D. as told by expert author Godfrey Blunden.
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1409109011
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
This is the story of lives under the constant scrutiny of the N.K.V.D. Here is a monumental novel that shows how the fantastic Communist will-to-power has led to the enslavement of the Russians themselves. Here are the intellectuals, factory workers, spies, soldiers, big-shot Communists, and plain family people. This is the story of their lives under the constant scrutiny of the N.K.V.D. as told by expert author Godfrey Blunden.
The Convict Ship
Author: William Clark Russell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Royal Edinburgh
Author: Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Edinburgh (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Edinburgh (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description