Author: Sue Sorensen
Publisher: Coteau Books
ISBN: 1550504606
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Part love story, part academic satire, part spiritual quest, the novel is also just plain funny.
A Large Harmonium
The Whole Harmonium
Author: Paul Mariani
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451624395
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
An “incandescent….redefining biography of a major poet whose reputation continues to ascend” (Booklist, starred review)—Wallace Stevens, perhaps the most important American poet of the twentieth century. Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) lived a richly imaginative life that he expressed in his poems. “A biography that is both deliciously readable and profoundly knowledgeable” (Library Journal, starred review), The Whole Harmonium presents Stevens within the living context of his times and as the creator of a poetry that continues to shape how we understand and define ourselves. A lawyer who rose to become an insurance-company vice president, Stevens composed brilliant poems on long walks to work and at other stolen moments. He endured an increasingly unhappy marriage, and yet he had his Dionysian side, reveling in long fishing (and drinking) trips to the sun-drenched tropics of Key West. He was at once both the Connecticut businessman and the hidalgo lover of all things Latin. His first book of poems, Harmonium, published when he was forty-four, drew on his profound understanding of Modernism to create a distinctive and inimitable American idiom. Over time he became acquainted with peers such as Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams, but his personal style remained unique. The complexity of Stevens’s poetry rests on emotional, philosophical, and linguistic tensions that thread their way intricately through his poems, both early and late. And while he can be challenging to understand, Stevens has proven time and again to be one of the most richly rewarding poets to read. Biographer and poet Paul Mariani’s The Whole Harmonium “is an excellent, superb, thrilling story of a mind….unpacking poems in language that is nearly as eloquent as the poet’s, and as clear as faithfulness allows” (The New Yorker).
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451624395
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
An “incandescent….redefining biography of a major poet whose reputation continues to ascend” (Booklist, starred review)—Wallace Stevens, perhaps the most important American poet of the twentieth century. Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) lived a richly imaginative life that he expressed in his poems. “A biography that is both deliciously readable and profoundly knowledgeable” (Library Journal, starred review), The Whole Harmonium presents Stevens within the living context of his times and as the creator of a poetry that continues to shape how we understand and define ourselves. A lawyer who rose to become an insurance-company vice president, Stevens composed brilliant poems on long walks to work and at other stolen moments. He endured an increasingly unhappy marriage, and yet he had his Dionysian side, reveling in long fishing (and drinking) trips to the sun-drenched tropics of Key West. He was at once both the Connecticut businessman and the hidalgo lover of all things Latin. His first book of poems, Harmonium, published when he was forty-four, drew on his profound understanding of Modernism to create a distinctive and inimitable American idiom. Over time he became acquainted with peers such as Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams, but his personal style remained unique. The complexity of Stevens’s poetry rests on emotional, philosophical, and linguistic tensions that thread their way intricately through his poems, both early and late. And while he can be challenging to understand, Stevens has proven time and again to be one of the most richly rewarding poets to read. Biographer and poet Paul Mariani’s The Whole Harmonium “is an excellent, superb, thrilling story of a mind….unpacking poems in language that is nearly as eloquent as the poet’s, and as clear as faithfulness allows” (The New Yorker).
... Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty-six Classes Into which the Exhibition was Divided
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Languages : en
Pages : 1226
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Pages : 1226
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Reports by the Juries on the subjects in the thirty-six classes into which the Exhibition was divided. [Printed for the “Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce,” and edited by J. F. Iselin and P. Le Neve Foster.]
Author: International Exhibition of 1862 (LONDON)
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Languages : en
Pages : 1228
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Pages : 1228
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The Organ
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Category : Organ (Musical instrument)
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Category : Organ (Musical instrument)
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Handbook to the Industrial Department of the International Exhibition, 1862
Author: Robert Hunt
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
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The Musical Times and Singing-class Circular
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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The Athenaeum
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Studies in Worship-music
Author: John Spencer Curwen
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Category : Church music
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Category : Church music
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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