Author: John Bell
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry: Poems imitative of Spenser. Poems imitative of Milton
Author: John Bell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry
Author: John Bell
Publisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Publisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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English Poetry and Old Norse Myth
Author: Heather O'Donoghue
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191034363
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
English Poetry and Old Norse Myth: A History traces the influence of Old Norse myth — stories and poems about the familiar gods and goddesses of the pagan North, such as Odin, Thor, Baldr and Freyja — on poetry in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. Especial care is taken to determine the precise form in which these poets encountered the mythic material, so that the book traces a parallel history of the gradual dissemination of Old Norse mythic texts. Very many major poets were inspired by Old Norse myth. Some, for instance the Anglo-Saxon poet of Beowulf, or much later, Sir Walter Scott, used Old Norse mythic references to lend dramatic colour and apparent authenticity to their presentation of a distant Northern past. Others, like Thomas Gray, or Matthew Arnold, adapted Old Norse mythological poems and stories in ways which both responded to and helped to form the literary tastes of their own times. Still others, such as William Blake, or David Jones, reworked and incorporated celebrated elements of Norse myth - valkyries weaving the fates of men, or the great World Tree Yggdrasill on which Odin sacrificed himself - as personal symbols in their own poetry. This book also considers less familiar literary figures, showing how a surprisingly large number of poets in English engaged in individual ways with Old Norse myth. English Poetry and Old Norse Myth: A History demonstrates how attitudes towards the pagan mythology of the north change over time, but reveals that poets have always recognized Old Norse myth as a vital part of the literary, political and historical legacy of the English-speaking world.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191034363
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
English Poetry and Old Norse Myth: A History traces the influence of Old Norse myth — stories and poems about the familiar gods and goddesses of the pagan North, such as Odin, Thor, Baldr and Freyja — on poetry in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. Especial care is taken to determine the precise form in which these poets encountered the mythic material, so that the book traces a parallel history of the gradual dissemination of Old Norse mythic texts. Very many major poets were inspired by Old Norse myth. Some, for instance the Anglo-Saxon poet of Beowulf, or much later, Sir Walter Scott, used Old Norse mythic references to lend dramatic colour and apparent authenticity to their presentation of a distant Northern past. Others, like Thomas Gray, or Matthew Arnold, adapted Old Norse mythological poems and stories in ways which both responded to and helped to form the literary tastes of their own times. Still others, such as William Blake, or David Jones, reworked and incorporated celebrated elements of Norse myth - valkyries weaving the fates of men, or the great World Tree Yggdrasill on which Odin sacrificed himself - as personal symbols in their own poetry. This book also considers less familiar literary figures, showing how a surprisingly large number of poets in English engaged in individual ways with Old Norse myth. English Poetry and Old Norse Myth: A History demonstrates how attitudes towards the pagan mythology of the north change over time, but reveals that poets have always recognized Old Norse myth as a vital part of the literary, political and historical legacy of the English-speaking world.
Romanticism and the Uses of Genre
Author: David Duff
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199572747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This reappraisal of the role of genre in Romanticism explores the generic innovations that drove the Romantic 'revolution in literature'. Also examined is the movement's fascination with archaic forms such as the ballad, the sonnet, and the epic, the revival of which made Romanticism a 'retro' as well as a revolutionary movement.
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199572747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This reappraisal of the role of genre in Romanticism explores the generic innovations that drove the Romantic 'revolution in literature'. Also examined is the movement's fascination with archaic forms such as the ballad, the sonnet, and the epic, the revival of which made Romanticism a 'retro' as well as a revolutionary movement.
The Spenser Encyclopedia
Author: A.C. Hamilton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134934815
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 2609
Book Description
'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains Edmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive one-stop reference tool for: * appreciating Spenser's poetry in the context of his age and our own * understanding the language, themes and characters of the poems * easy to find entries arranged by subject.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134934815
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 2609
Book Description
'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains Edmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive one-stop reference tool for: * appreciating Spenser's poetry in the context of his age and our own * understanding the language, themes and characters of the poems * easy to find entries arranged by subject.
John Bell, 1745-1831: A Memoir
Author: Stanley Morison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521143141
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
John Bell (1745-1831) was an English publisher. The Dictionary of National Biography has Charles Knight calling Bell a 'mischievous spirit, the very Puck of booksellers'. His 109-volume, literature-for-the-masses Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill, which rivalled Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1781), was published from 1777 to 1783. Each volume cost just six shillings, at a time when similar volumes usually cost many times that. The drawings and illustrations with which Bell adorned his publications influenced later publishers, as did his abandonment of the long S. Most notable, perhaps, was Bell's joint-stock organisation of his publishing company, which defied 'the trade' - at the time, forty dominant publishing companies - in order to establish a monopoly on the best publications. In addition to the immense Poets of Great Britain, Bell also published similar volumes on Shakespeare and the British Theatre, as well as the Sunday newspaper Bell's Weekly Messenger and other periodicals.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521143141
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
John Bell (1745-1831) was an English publisher. The Dictionary of National Biography has Charles Knight calling Bell a 'mischievous spirit, the very Puck of booksellers'. His 109-volume, literature-for-the-masses Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill, which rivalled Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1781), was published from 1777 to 1783. Each volume cost just six shillings, at a time when similar volumes usually cost many times that. The drawings and illustrations with which Bell adorned his publications influenced later publishers, as did his abandonment of the long S. Most notable, perhaps, was Bell's joint-stock organisation of his publishing company, which defied 'the trade' - at the time, forty dominant publishing companies - in order to establish a monopoly on the best publications. In addition to the immense Poets of Great Britain, Bell also published similar volumes on Shakespeare and the British Theatre, as well as the Sunday newspaper Bell's Weekly Messenger and other periodicals.
The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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The Most Disreputable Trade
Author: Thomas F. Bonnell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199532206
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
This fascinating book probes the origins of mass-market series of literary 'classics'. Highly informative about the book trade in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Bonnell's study is also rich in details about book illustration, copyright law, canon formation, consumer culture, and the history of reading.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199532206
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
This fascinating book probes the origins of mass-market series of literary 'classics'. Highly informative about the book trade in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Bonnell's study is also rich in details about book illustration, copyright law, canon formation, consumer culture, and the history of reading.
A letter on the drainage of the East, West, and Wildmore fens
Author: Thomas Stone
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Category : Drainage
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Publisher:
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Category : Drainage
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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