Author: Henry Swinburne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Travels in the Two Sicilies in the Years 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780
Author: Henry Swinburne
Publisher:
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Travels In The Two Sicilies, In The Years 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. [With Plates]
Author: Henry Swinburne
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Travels in the Two Sicilies ... in the years 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. The second edition. [With plates after designs by the author, and a map.]
Author: Henry SWINBURNE (Vendue Master at Trinidad.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Travels in the Two Sicilies ... in ... 1777,1778,1779, and 1780
Author: Henry Swinburne
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Publisher:
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Down to the Sunless Sea
Author: Andrew Edwards
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1837645582
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Down to the Sunless Sea explores the time Coleridge spent in Gibraltar, Malta, Sicily and mainland Italy, where he had planned to recover his health, escape the clutches of opium and gain inspiration from the landscape; however, the reality would prove very different. After his short sojourn in Gibraltar, Coleridge arrived in Malta, where he became acquainted with the British Governor, Alexander Ball. He settled into Maltese life, initially taking on the role of acting Under-Secretary. Travelling to Sicily, Coleridge embraced the island's landscapes but was shaken to find the opium poppy was an important local crop. The Mediterranean would not prove the solution to his addiction. He visited the Consul, G. F. Leckie, and was invited to stay with him at a house on the site of Timoleon's Greek villa. The poet visited the antiquities of Syracuse and at the opera house encountered the soprano, Anna-Cecilia Bertozzi, nearly succumbing to her charms. Back in Malta, he was offered rooms in the Treasury building (now the Casino Maltese) and took up the post of Public Secretary. Legal pronouncements in Italian bear Coleridge's signature. Leaving behind these matters of state, he drifted through the Italian peninsula, engaging with a coterie of artistic ex-pats when in Rome. His listless, half-hearted, and financially embarrassed attempts at the Grand Tour included a narrow escape from French troops. Coleridge's Mediterranean sojourn impacted on his life and writing, not to mention his health, which saw a marked decline, leading to his final years in Highgate under the roof of a friendly doctor. Down to the Sunless Sea is a literary reflection on the fact that the sun-filled Mediterranean was not the tonic he had first imagined.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1837645582
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Down to the Sunless Sea explores the time Coleridge spent in Gibraltar, Malta, Sicily and mainland Italy, where he had planned to recover his health, escape the clutches of opium and gain inspiration from the landscape; however, the reality would prove very different. After his short sojourn in Gibraltar, Coleridge arrived in Malta, where he became acquainted with the British Governor, Alexander Ball. He settled into Maltese life, initially taking on the role of acting Under-Secretary. Travelling to Sicily, Coleridge embraced the island's landscapes but was shaken to find the opium poppy was an important local crop. The Mediterranean would not prove the solution to his addiction. He visited the Consul, G. F. Leckie, and was invited to stay with him at a house on the site of Timoleon's Greek villa. The poet visited the antiquities of Syracuse and at the opera house encountered the soprano, Anna-Cecilia Bertozzi, nearly succumbing to her charms. Back in Malta, he was offered rooms in the Treasury building (now the Casino Maltese) and took up the post of Public Secretary. Legal pronouncements in Italian bear Coleridge's signature. Leaving behind these matters of state, he drifted through the Italian peninsula, engaging with a coterie of artistic ex-pats when in Rome. His listless, half-hearted, and financially embarrassed attempts at the Grand Tour included a narrow escape from French troops. Coleridge's Mediterranean sojourn impacted on his life and writing, not to mention his health, which saw a marked decline, leading to his final years in Highgate under the roof of a friendly doctor. Down to the Sunless Sea is a literary reflection on the fact that the sun-filled Mediterranean was not the tonic he had first imagined.
A Catalogue of Books, Ancient and Modern
Author: William Creech
Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books, Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 870
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 870
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A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased
Author: Samuel Austin Allibone
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin Allibone
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
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