Author: Thomas Percy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher:
ISBN: 1107093538
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 235

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The first modern scholarly edition of the letters of Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), including extensive biographical and contextual material.

Author: Thomas Percy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Author: Bertram H. Davis
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 151280164X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author: Nick Groom
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198184591
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Percy's Reliques is the seminal collection of historical and lyrical ballads that defined English literature at the end of the 18th century. This study examines his working methods.

Author: Christopher Smart
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809316090
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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The only collection of all known letters of Christopher Smart provides the best psychological explanation to date of that complex and elusive eighteenth-century poet. The significant characteristics that distinguish Smart’s prose letters from his poetry, Betty Rizzo and Robert Mahony note, are that his letters were requests for assistance while his verses were bequests, gifts in which he set great store. Indeed, it was Smart’s lifelong conviction that he was a poet of major importance. As Smart biographer Karina Williamson notes, "The splendidly informative and vivaciously written accounts of the circumstances surrounding each letter, or group of letters, add up to what is in effect a miniature biography."

Author: Peter Martin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521460309
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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First modern full-length biography of scholar and member of late eighteenth-century intellectual elite.

Author: Alan Stewart
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191563560
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 423

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Shakespeare's plays are stuffed with letters - 111 appear on stage in all but five of his dramas. But for modern actors, directors, and critics they are frequently an awkward embarrassment. Alan Stewart shows how and why Shakespeare put letters on stage in virtually all of his plays. By reconstructing the very different uses to which letters were put in Shakespeare's time, and recapturing what it meant to write, send, receive, read, and archive a letter, it throws new light on some of his most familiar dramas. Early modern letters were not private missives sent through an anonymous postal system, but a vital - sometimes the only - means of maintaining contact and sending news between distant locations. Penning a letter was a serious business in a period when writers made their own pen and ink; letter-writing protocols were strict; letters were dispatched by personal messengers or carriers, often received and read in public - and Shakespeare exploited all these features to dramatic effect. Surveying the vast range of letters in Shakespeare's oeuvre, the book also features sustained new readings of Hamlet, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, The Merchant of Venice and Henry IV Part One.

Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 666

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Author: Eric Robson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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