Author: John Stuart BlackiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The Selected Poems of John Stuart Blackie
John Stuart Blackie
Author: Stuart WallacePublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748628193
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
John Stuart Blackie was one of the most impressive and influential figures of nineteenth-century Scotland, as well as one of the most striking and flamboyant. As an intellectual he translated Goethe's Faust and brought first-hand knowledge of German philosophy to Scotland as a means of keeping the Enlightenment tradition alive. As first Professor of Humanity at Aberdeen from 1839 to 1852 and then as Professor of Greek at Edinburgh until 1882, he played a, perhaps the, central role in modernising the Scottish university curriculum, removing the dead hand of theological orthodoxy, raising standards (and the entry age), introducing tutorial teaching and establishing new chairs (including the Edinburgh chair of Celtic). His role in the reform of secondary school teaching was equally central. But Blackie was also a great 'public man', corresponding with great and famous throughout Great Britain and Europe, from Goethe and Carlyle to Ruskin and Gladstone, and filling the pages of newspapers and journals with writings on the major issues of the day. For the last thirty years of his life he became closely involved in issues of Scottish nationalism and home rule, and as champion of the crofters is largely responsible for their contemporary survival and unique status. Despite the existence of a rich archive of his papers and letters, there has been only one book devoted to his life: The Life of Professor John Stuart Blackie, the most distinguished Scotsman of the day, edited by J. G. Duncan and published in 1895.
Selected Poems
Author: John Stuart BlackiePublisher:
ISBN: 9783744770880
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Selected Poems - Of John Stuart Blackie is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
The Day-book of John Stuart Blackie
Author: John Stuart BlackiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 1 A-L
Author: T. BosePublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 9780774802741
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The Colbeck collection was formed over half a century ago by the Bournemouth bookseller Norman Colbeck. Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, the collection features nearly 500 authors and lists over 13,000 works. Entries are alphabetically arranged by author with copious notes on the condition and binding of each copy. Nine appendices provide listings of selected periodicals, series publications, anthologies, yearbooks, and topical works.
Select Poems
Author: Robert BurnsCollected Poems
Author: Alfred NoyesPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Select Poems of Robert Burns
Author: Robert BurnsPublisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Select Poems
Author: Samuel Taylor ColeridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
... Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description