Author: William Arthur Speck
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300116816
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Features the full text of "His Books," a poem written by English author Robert Southey (1774-1843). The poem is provided online by Bibliomania.com Ltd. from the print version of "The Oxford Book of English Verse 1900."
Robert Southey
Author: William Arthur Speck
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300116816
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Features the full text of "His Books," a poem written by English author Robert Southey (1774-1843). The poem is provided online by Bibliomania.com Ltd. from the print version of "The Oxford Book of English Verse 1900."
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300116816
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Features the full text of "His Books," a poem written by English author Robert Southey (1774-1843). The poem is provided online by Bibliomania.com Ltd. from the print version of "The Oxford Book of English Verse 1900."
New Letters of Robert Southey
Author: Robert Southey
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Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Bulletin
Author: New York Public Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Kerslake's Catalogue of Books, containing a considerable portion of the library of the late R. Southey, etc
Author: Thomas KERSLAKE
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Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Making of Middle English, 1765-1910
Author: David Matthews
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816631858
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Before the 1760s -- with the major exception of Chaucer -- nearly all of Middle English literature lay undiscovered and ignored. Because established scholars regarded later medieval literature as primitive and barbaric, the study of this rich literary heritage was relegated to antiquarians and dilettantes. In The Making of Middle English, 1765-1910, David Matthews chronicles the gradual rediscovery of this literature and the formation of Middle English as a scholarly pursuit. Matthews details how the careers, class positions, and ambitions of only a few men gave shape and direction to the discipline. Mostly from the lower middle class, they worked in the church or in law and hoped to exploit medieval literature for financial success and social advancement. Where Middle English was concerned, Matthews notes, these scholars were self-taught, and their amateurism came at the price of inaccurately edited and often deliberately "improved" texts intended for a general public that sought appealing, rather than authentic, reading material. This study emphasizes the material history of the discipline, examining individual books and analyzing introductions, notes, glossaries, promotional materials, lists of subscribers, and owners' annotations to assess the changing methodological approaches of the scholars and the shifts in readership. Matthews explores the influence of aristocratic patronage and the societies formed to further the editing and publication of texts. And he examines the ideological uses of Middle English and the often contentious debates between these scholars and organizations about the definition of Englishness itself. A thorough work of scholarship, The Making of MiddleEnglish presents for the first time a detailed account of the formative phase of Middle English studies and provides new perspectives on the emergence of medieval studies, canon formation, the politics of editing, and the history of the book.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816631858
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Before the 1760s -- with the major exception of Chaucer -- nearly all of Middle English literature lay undiscovered and ignored. Because established scholars regarded later medieval literature as primitive and barbaric, the study of this rich literary heritage was relegated to antiquarians and dilettantes. In The Making of Middle English, 1765-1910, David Matthews chronicles the gradual rediscovery of this literature and the formation of Middle English as a scholarly pursuit. Matthews details how the careers, class positions, and ambitions of only a few men gave shape and direction to the discipline. Mostly from the lower middle class, they worked in the church or in law and hoped to exploit medieval literature for financial success and social advancement. Where Middle English was concerned, Matthews notes, these scholars were self-taught, and their amateurism came at the price of inaccurately edited and often deliberately "improved" texts intended for a general public that sought appealing, rather than authentic, reading material. This study emphasizes the material history of the discipline, examining individual books and analyzing introductions, notes, glossaries, promotional materials, lists of subscribers, and owners' annotations to assess the changing methodological approaches of the scholars and the shifts in readership. Matthews explores the influence of aristocratic patronage and the societies formed to further the editing and publication of texts. And he examines the ideological uses of Middle English and the often contentious debates between these scholars and organizations about the definition of Englishness itself. A thorough work of scholarship, The Making of MiddleEnglish presents for the first time a detailed account of the formative phase of Middle English studies and provides new perspectives on the emergence of medieval studies, canon formation, the politics of editing, and the history of the book.
William Wordsworth
Author: Stephen Gill
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192551280
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
In this second edition of William Wordsworth: A Life, Stephen Gill draws on knowledge of the poet's creative practices and his reputation and influence in his life-time and beyond. Refusing to treat the poet's later years as of little interest, this biography presents a narrative of the whole of Wordsworth's long life--1770 to 1850--tracing the development from the adventurous youth who alone of the great Romantic poets saw life in revolutionary France to the old man who became Queen Victoria's Poet Laureate. The various phases of Wordsworth's life are explored with a not uncritical sympathy; the narrative brings out the courage he and his wife and family were called upon to show as they crafted the life they wanted to lead. While the emphasis is on Wordsworth the writer, the personal relationships that nourished his creativity are fully treated, as are the historical circumstances that affected the production of his poetry. Wordsworth, it is widely believed, valued poetic spontaneity. He did, but he also took pains over every detail of the process of publication. The foundation of this second edition of the biography remains, as it was of the first, a conviction that Wordsworth's poetry, which has given pleasure and comfort to generations of readers in the past, will continue to do so in the years to come.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192551280
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
In this second edition of William Wordsworth: A Life, Stephen Gill draws on knowledge of the poet's creative practices and his reputation and influence in his life-time and beyond. Refusing to treat the poet's later years as of little interest, this biography presents a narrative of the whole of Wordsworth's long life--1770 to 1850--tracing the development from the adventurous youth who alone of the great Romantic poets saw life in revolutionary France to the old man who became Queen Victoria's Poet Laureate. The various phases of Wordsworth's life are explored with a not uncritical sympathy; the narrative brings out the courage he and his wife and family were called upon to show as they crafted the life they wanted to lead. While the emphasis is on Wordsworth the writer, the personal relationships that nourished his creativity are fully treated, as are the historical circumstances that affected the production of his poetry. Wordsworth, it is widely believed, valued poetic spontaneity. He did, but he also took pains over every detail of the process of publication. The foundation of this second edition of the biography remains, as it was of the first, a conviction that Wordsworth's poetry, which has given pleasure and comfort to generations of readers in the past, will continue to do so in the years to come.
Notes and Queries
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume VI. The Later Years: Part 3. 1835-1839
Author: William Wordsworth
Publisher:
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
This new series brings together a number of great academic works from the archives of Oxford University Press. Reissued in a uniform series design in Spring 2000, Oxford Scholarly Classics will enable libraries, scholars, and students to gain fresh access to some of the finest scholarship of the last century.
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
This new series brings together a number of great academic works from the archives of Oxford University Press. Reissued in a uniform series design in Spring 2000, Oxford Scholarly Classics will enable libraries, scholars, and students to gain fresh access to some of the finest scholarship of the last century.
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Being a complete alphabetical and chronological record of all autograph letters, documents & manuscripts, sold by auction in London, with the date and place of sale, name of purchaser, and price of each lot, together with a comprehensive reference index.
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Being a complete alphabetical and chronological record of all autograph letters, documents & manuscripts, sold by auction in London, with the date and place of sale, name of purchaser, and price of each lot, together with a comprehensive reference index.