Author: Wim Coleman
Publisher: Red Chair Press
ISBN: 1939656559
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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The 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln was killed by an assassin’s bullet on April 15, 1865. Lincoln preserved the union of the nation, but after the Civil War he struggled with Congress and the people over Reconstruction. Despite the war and political strife, Lincoln’s life and legacy touched the hearts and souls of millions then as it does today. This play draws from the writings of many of those people and from Lincoln himself.
Author: Walt Whitman
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Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Author: Walt Whitman
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1557091323
Category : Poets, American
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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During the Civil War, from 1862-1865, Walt Whitman spent much of his time with wounded soldiers, both in the field and in the hospitals. The 40 notebooks he filled became the basis for the extraordinary diary of a medic in the Civil War.
Author: Elisabeth Sutherland
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Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Author: Walt Whitman
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Category : Poets, American
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Author: Walt Whitman
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Author: Ludwig Herrig
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Author: Stephen Regan
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0241269636
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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'A tremendous sentimental education of a book ... a literary adventure ... chosen with a scholarly discernment mixed with a wild-card flair ... fascinating and unignorable' Kate Kellaway, Observer (Poetry Book of the Month) 'If you have any weakness at all for poetry, this book will draw you in, then devastate you' Susie Goldsbrough. The Times Elegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature. Born in Ancient Greece, practised by the Romans, revitalized by the poets of the Renaissance and continuing down to the present day, it speaks eloquently and affectingly of the experience of loss and the yearning for consolation. It gives shape and meaning to memories too painful to contemplate, and answers our desire to fix in words what would otherwise slip our grasp. In The Penguin Book of Elegy, Andrew Motion and Stephen Regan trace the history of this tradition, from its Classical roots in the work of Theocritus, Virgil and Ovid down to modern compositions exploring personal tragedy and collective grief by such celebrated voices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Bishop, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Denise Riley. The only comprehensive anthology of its kind in the English language, The Penguin Book of Elegy is a profound and moving compendium of the fundamentally human urges to remember and honour the dead, and to give comfort to those who survive them.
