Author: David Cecil
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571251643
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
First published in 1929, The Stricken Deer was the winner of that year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize and also the Hawthornden Prize: it was David Cecil's first book. For a time, towards the end of the eighteenth-century, William Cowper was the foremost poet in England. But David Cecil's biography doesn't celebrate a life of success, rather, in Cowper's own words, 'the strange and uncommon incidents of my life.' Cowper suffered from severe bouts of depression. His personal tragedy however enriched English literature: the fear of madness made him turn to writing poetry as a form of mental discipline, and isolation for the great world and from his own kind helped him to become the most enchanting of letter-writers. 'This is a sympathetic and vivid biography; it is subtle with a kind of gentle acuteness and vivid without literary ostentation. It is the work of a biographer with a clear head and a clever heart ... the rarest of all merits is the sensitive fairness of the of the biographer's estimate of character and situation throughout.' Desmond MacCarthy, "Sunday Times"
The Stricken Deer
Author: David Cecil
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571251643
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
First published in 1929, The Stricken Deer was the winner of that year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize and also the Hawthornden Prize: it was David Cecil's first book. For a time, towards the end of the eighteenth-century, William Cowper was the foremost poet in England. But David Cecil's biography doesn't celebrate a life of success, rather, in Cowper's own words, 'the strange and uncommon incidents of my life.' Cowper suffered from severe bouts of depression. His personal tragedy however enriched English literature: the fear of madness made him turn to writing poetry as a form of mental discipline, and isolation for the great world and from his own kind helped him to become the most enchanting of letter-writers. 'This is a sympathetic and vivid biography; it is subtle with a kind of gentle acuteness and vivid without literary ostentation. It is the work of a biographer with a clear head and a clever heart ... the rarest of all merits is the sensitive fairness of the of the biographer's estimate of character and situation throughout.' Desmond MacCarthy, "Sunday Times"
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571251643
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
First published in 1929, The Stricken Deer was the winner of that year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize and also the Hawthornden Prize: it was David Cecil's first book. For a time, towards the end of the eighteenth-century, William Cowper was the foremost poet in England. But David Cecil's biography doesn't celebrate a life of success, rather, in Cowper's own words, 'the strange and uncommon incidents of my life.' Cowper suffered from severe bouts of depression. His personal tragedy however enriched English literature: the fear of madness made him turn to writing poetry as a form of mental discipline, and isolation for the great world and from his own kind helped him to become the most enchanting of letter-writers. 'This is a sympathetic and vivid biography; it is subtle with a kind of gentle acuteness and vivid without literary ostentation. It is the work of a biographer with a clear head and a clever heart ... the rarest of all merits is the sensitive fairness of the of the biographer's estimate of character and situation throughout.' Desmond MacCarthy, "Sunday Times"
The Stricken Deer; Or, The Life of Cowper
Author: David Cecil
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Stricken Deer
Author: David Cecil
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
The Stricken Deer
Author: David Cecil (Lord)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry
Author: Virginia Brackett
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108354
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive A-to-Z reference with approximately 400 entries providing facts about British poets and their poetry from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108354
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive A-to-Z reference with approximately 400 entries providing facts about British poets and their poetry from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The New Prince Fortunatus ...
Author: William Black
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The Diary of Master William Silence
Author: Dodgson Hamilton Madden
Publisher:
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Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Publisher:
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Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Diary of Master William Silence
Author:
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Hamlet
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474273890
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
This Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an authoritative, modernized text based on the Second Quarto text with a new introductory essay covering key productions and criticism in the decade since its first publication. A timely up-date in the 400th anniversary year of Shakespeare's death which will ensure the Arden edition continues to offer students a comprehensive and current critical account of the play, alongside the most reliable and fully-annotated text available.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474273890
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
This Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an authoritative, modernized text based on the Second Quarto text with a new introductory essay covering key productions and criticism in the decade since its first publication. A timely up-date in the 400th anniversary year of Shakespeare's death which will ensure the Arden edition continues to offer students a comprehensive and current critical account of the play, alongside the most reliable and fully-annotated text available.
Making Animal Meaning
Author: Linda Kalof
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1609172345
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
An elucidating collection of ten original essays, Making Animal Meaning reconceptualizes methods for researching animal histories and rethinks the contingency of the human-animal relationship. The vibrant and diverse field of animal studies is detailed in these interdisciplinary discussions, which include voices from a broad range of scholars and have an extensive chronological and geographical reach. These exciting discourses capture the most compelling theoretical underpinnings of animal significance while exploring meaning-making through the study of specific spaces, species, and human-animal relations. A deeply thoughtful collection — vital to understanding central questions of agency, kinship, and animal consumption — these essays tackle the history and philosophy of constructing animal meaning.
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1609172345
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
An elucidating collection of ten original essays, Making Animal Meaning reconceptualizes methods for researching animal histories and rethinks the contingency of the human-animal relationship. The vibrant and diverse field of animal studies is detailed in these interdisciplinary discussions, which include voices from a broad range of scholars and have an extensive chronological and geographical reach. These exciting discourses capture the most compelling theoretical underpinnings of animal significance while exploring meaning-making through the study of specific spaces, species, and human-animal relations. A deeply thoughtful collection — vital to understanding central questions of agency, kinship, and animal consumption — these essays tackle the history and philosophy of constructing animal meaning.