Author: David Morley
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
ISBN: 1784104957
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
In his bold new collection, David Morley, winner of the Ted Hughes Award, casts off the worlds of myth and magical fable to focus on the fiercely personal. 'Love teaches you how to mind / And how to mend', he writes in 'After a Song by Gustav Mahler'. In The Magic of What's There Morley uses his eye for precise detail and his linguistic invention to explore childhood suffering and, in counterbalance, the joys of love, friendship and parenthood. He finds the elements of epic in the everyday, navigating the complex connections between past and present selves. His poems acknowledge our capacity for cruelty, but also for love, tenderness and mercy.
The Magic of What's There
Author: David Morley
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
ISBN: 1784104957
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
In his bold new collection, David Morley, winner of the Ted Hughes Award, casts off the worlds of myth and magical fable to focus on the fiercely personal. 'Love teaches you how to mind / And how to mend', he writes in 'After a Song by Gustav Mahler'. In The Magic of What's There Morley uses his eye for precise detail and his linguistic invention to explore childhood suffering and, in counterbalance, the joys of love, friendship and parenthood. He finds the elements of epic in the everyday, navigating the complex connections between past and present selves. His poems acknowledge our capacity for cruelty, but also for love, tenderness and mercy.
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
ISBN: 1784104957
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
In his bold new collection, David Morley, winner of the Ted Hughes Award, casts off the worlds of myth and magical fable to focus on the fiercely personal. 'Love teaches you how to mind / And how to mend', he writes in 'After a Song by Gustav Mahler'. In The Magic of What's There Morley uses his eye for precise detail and his linguistic invention to explore childhood suffering and, in counterbalance, the joys of love, friendship and parenthood. He finds the elements of epic in the everyday, navigating the complex connections between past and present selves. His poems acknowledge our capacity for cruelty, but also for love, tenderness and mercy.
Gypsies
Author: David Cressy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191080519
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and—more recently—Travellers. Who are these marginal and mysterious people who first arrived in England in early Tudor times? Are claims of their distant origins on the Indian subcontinent true, or just another of the many myths and stories that have accreted around them over time? Can they even be regarded as a single people or ethnicity at all? Gypsies have frequently been vilified, and not much less frequently romanticized, by the settled population over the centuries. Social historian David Cressy now attempts to disentangle the myth from the reality of Gypsy life over more than half a millennium of English history. In this, the first comprehensive historical study of the doings and dealings of Gypsies in England, he draws on original archival research, and a wide range of reading, to trace the many moments when Gypsy lives became entangled with those of villagers and townsfolk, religious and secular authorities, and social and moral reformers. Crucially, it is a story not just of the Gypsy community and its peculiarities, but also of England's treatment of that community, from draconian Elizabethan statutes, through various degrees of toleration and fascination, right up to the tabloid newspaper campaigns against Gypsy and Traveller encampments of more recent years.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191080519
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and—more recently—Travellers. Who are these marginal and mysterious people who first arrived in England in early Tudor times? Are claims of their distant origins on the Indian subcontinent true, or just another of the many myths and stories that have accreted around them over time? Can they even be regarded as a single people or ethnicity at all? Gypsies have frequently been vilified, and not much less frequently romanticized, by the settled population over the centuries. Social historian David Cressy now attempts to disentangle the myth from the reality of Gypsy life over more than half a millennium of English history. In this, the first comprehensive historical study of the doings and dealings of Gypsies in England, he draws on original archival research, and a wide range of reading, to trace the many moments when Gypsy lives became entangled with those of villagers and townsfolk, religious and secular authorities, and social and moral reformers. Crucially, it is a story not just of the Gypsy community and its peculiarities, but also of England's treatment of that community, from draconian Elizabethan statutes, through various degrees of toleration and fascination, right up to the tabloid newspaper campaigns against Gypsy and Traveller encampments of more recent years.
The Death of Wisdom Smith, Prince of Gypsies
Author: David Morley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780955515781
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780955515781
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
World Folklore for Storytellers: Tales of Wonder, Wisdom, Fools, and Heroes
Author: Howard J Sherman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317451643
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Here is a treasury of favorite and little known tales from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, Australia, and Oceania, gracefully retold and accompanied by fascinating, detailed information of their historic and cultural backgrounds. The introduction provides an informative overview of folklore, its purpose in world cultures and in contemporary society and popular culture. Following this, the main sections of the book are arranged by tale type, covering wonder tales, hero tales, tales of kindness repaid and hope and redemption, and finally tales of fools and wise people. Each section begins by comparing the tales cross-culturally, explaining similarities and differences in the folkloric narratives. Tales from diverse cultures are then presented, introduced, and retold in a highly readable fashion.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317451643
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Here is a treasury of favorite and little known tales from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, Australia, and Oceania, gracefully retold and accompanied by fascinating, detailed information of their historic and cultural backgrounds. The introduction provides an informative overview of folklore, its purpose in world cultures and in contemporary society and popular culture. Following this, the main sections of the book are arranged by tale type, covering wonder tales, hero tales, tales of kindness repaid and hope and redemption, and finally tales of fools and wise people. Each section begins by comparing the tales cross-culturally, explaining similarities and differences in the folkloric narratives. Tales from diverse cultures are then presented, introduced, and retold in a highly readable fashion.
The Contributor
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Category : Mormons
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
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Category : Mormons
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The Works of Joseph Addison: Letters, June 1717-1719. Death of Addison. Second appendix, containing miscellanies and gleanings. Translations of Addison's Latin poems. Addison's Latin prose. Official documents. Addisonians. General index
Author: Joseph Addison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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A History of the Gipsies
Author: Walter Simson
Publisher:
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Category : Romanies
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Category : Romanies
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam
Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
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Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Gipsy Life
Author: George Smith
Publisher:
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Category : Romanies
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Category : Romanies
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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The Zincali
Author: George Borrow
Publisher:
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Category : Languages, Secret
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Languages, Secret
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description