The Dyer's Hand

The Dyer's Hand PDF Author: W. H. Auden
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546

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Auden speaks of the poet and his craft as well as literary figures and their works and observations on life in general.

The Dyer's Hand

The Dyer's Hand PDF Author: W. H. Auden
Publisher: Vintage
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546

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Auden speaks of the poet and his craft as well as literary figures and their works and observations on life in general.

The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays

The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays PDF Author: Wystan Hugh Auden
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571107186
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 527

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Auden speaks of the poet and his craft as well as literary figures and their works and observations on life in general.

The dyer's hand and other essays

The dyer's hand and other essays PDF Author: Wystan H. Auden
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Languages : en
Pages : 527

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The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays

The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays PDF Author: W. H. Auden
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Languages : en
Pages : 527

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Making, Knowing and Judging

Making, Knowing and Judging PDF Author: Wystan Hugh Auden
Publisher:
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Otherwise Known as the Human Condition

Otherwise Known as the Human Condition PDF Author: Geoff Dyer
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 9781555970260
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism* *A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice* *A New York Times Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year, as selected by Dwight Garner* Geoff Dyer has earned the devotion of passionate fans on both sides of the Atlantic through his wildly inventive, romantic novels as well as several brilliant, uncategorizable works of nonfiction. All the while he has been writing some of the wittiest, most incisive criticism we have on an astonishing array of subjects—music, literature, photography, and travel journalism—that, in Dyer's expert hands, becomes a kind of irresistible self-reportage. Otherwise Known as the Human Condition collects twenty-five years of essays, reviews, and misadventures. Here he is pursuing the shadow of Camus in Algeria and remembering life on the dole in Brixton in the 1980s; reflecting on Richard Avedon and Ruth Orkin, on the status of jazz and the wonderous Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, on the sculptor ZadKine and the saxophonist David Murray (in the same essay), on his heroes Rebecca West and Ryszard Kapus ́cin ́ski, on haute couture and sex in hotels. Whatever he writes about, his responses never fail to surprise. For Dyer there is no division between the reflective work of the critic and the novelist's commitment to lived experience: they are mutually illuminating ways to sharpen our perceptions. His is the rare body of work that manages to both frame our world and enlarge it.

White Sands

White Sands PDF Author: Geoff Dyer
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101870869
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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From “one of our most original writers” (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine) comes an expansive and exacting book—firmly grounded but elegant, often hilarious, and always inquisitive—about travel, unexpected awareness, and the questions we ask when we step outside ourselves. Geoff Dyer’s restless search—for what? is unclear, even to him—continues in this series of fascinating adventures and pilgrimages: with a tour guide who may not be a tour guide in the Forbidden City in Beijing; with friends in New Mexico, where D. H. Lawrence famously claimed to have had his “greatest experience from the outside world”; with a hitchhiker picked up on the way from White Sands; with Don Cherry (or a photo of him, at any rate) at the Watts Towers in Los Angeles. Weaving stories about places to which he has recently traveled with images and memories that have persisted since childhood, Dyer tries “to work out what a certain place—a certain way of marking the landscape—means; what it’s trying to tell us; what we go to it for.” With 4 pages of full-color illustrations.

Another Great Day at Sea

Another Great Day at Sea PDF Author: Geoff Dyer
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307911594
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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From a writer “whose genre-jumping refusal to be pinned down [makes him] an exemplar of our era” (NPR), a new book that confirms his power to astound readers. As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance of a residency aboard an aircraft carrier. Another Great Day at Sea chronicles Dyer’s experiences on the USS George H.W. Bush as he navigates the routines and protocols of “carrier-world,” from the elaborate choreography of the flight deck through miles of walkways and hatches to kitchens serving meals for a crew of five thousand to the deafening complexity of catapult and arresting gear. Meeting the Captain, the F-18 pilots and the dentists, experiencing everything from a man-overboard alert to the Steel Beach Party, Dyer guides us through the most AIE (acronym intensive environment) imaginable. A lanky Englishman (could he really be both the tallest and the oldest person on the ship?) in a deeply American world, with its constant exhortations to improve, to do better, Dyer brilliantly records the daily life on board the ship, revealing it to be a prism for understanding a society where discipline and conformity, dedication and optimism, become forms of self-expression. In the process it becomes clear why Geoff Dyer has been widely praised as one of the most original—and funniest—voices in literature. Another Great Day at Sea is the definitive work of an author whose books defy definition.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin PDF Author: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521483902
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Scientific and personal autobiography of the greatest woman astronomer of all time. The most famous graduate from Newnham College.

Lectures on Shakespeare

Lectures on Shakespeare PDF Author: W. H. Auden
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691197164
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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From one of the great modern writers, the acclaimed lectures in which he draws on a lifetime of experience to take the measure of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets "W. H. Auden, poet and critic, will conduct a course on Shakespeare at the New School for Social Research beginning Wednesday. Mr. Auden . . . proposes to read all Shakespeare's plays in chronological order." So the New York Times reported on September 27, 1946, giving notice of a rare opportunity to hear one of the century's great poets discuss at length one of the greatest writers of all time. Reconstructed by Arthur Kirsch, these lectures offer remarkable insights into Shakespeare's plays and sonnets while also adding immeasurably to our understanding of Auden.