Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368167960
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
Miscellaneous Works of George Wither
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368167960
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368167960
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
The later career of George Wither
Author: Charles Stanley Hensley
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111392724
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111392724
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Miscellaneous Works of George Wither
Author: George Wither
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Languages : en
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Languages : en
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The Realms of Apollo
Author: Raymond A. Anselment
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874135534
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
"In The Realms of Apollo, literary scholar Raymond A. Anselment examines how seventeenth-century English authors confronted the physical and psychological realities of death." "Focusing on the dangers of childbirth and the terrors of bubonic plague, venereal disease, and smallpox, the book reveals in the discourse of literary and medical texts the meanings of sickness and death in both the daily life and culture of seventeenth-century England. These perspectives show each realm anew as the domain of Apollo, the deity widely celebrated in myth as the god of poetry and the god of medicine. Authors of both formal elegies and simple broadsides saw themselves as healers who tried to find in language the solace physicians could not find in medicine. Within the context of the suffering so unmistakable in the medical treatises and in the personal diaries, memoirs, and letters, the poets' struggles illuminate a new cultural consciousness of sickness and death."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874135534
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
"In The Realms of Apollo, literary scholar Raymond A. Anselment examines how seventeenth-century English authors confronted the physical and psychological realities of death." "Focusing on the dangers of childbirth and the terrors of bubonic plague, venereal disease, and smallpox, the book reveals in the discourse of literary and medical texts the meanings of sickness and death in both the daily life and culture of seventeenth-century England. These perspectives show each realm anew as the domain of Apollo, the deity widely celebrated in myth as the god of poetry and the god of medicine. Authors of both formal elegies and simple broadsides saw themselves as healers who tried to find in language the solace physicians could not find in medicine. Within the context of the suffering so unmistakable in the medical treatises and in the personal diaries, memoirs, and letters, the poets' struggles illuminate a new cultural consciousness of sickness and death."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Miscellaneous Works of George Wither
Author: George Wither
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Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Mandeville Studies
Author: I. Primer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940101633X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
For centuries readers have admired the writer who wields his pen like a sword - an Aristophanes, a Rabelais, a Montaigne, a Swift. Using ribaldry, satire and irony in varying proportions, such writers pierce the thick, comfortable hide of society and uncover, predictably, the corruption and hypocrisy that characterize the life of man in commercial society. Though a lesser talent than any of these literary giants, Bernard Mande ville is nevertheless a member of their class. The crucial year in the emergence of his reputation was 1723, the year in which he added his controversial Essay on Charity and Charity-Schools to his Fable of the Bees. From that point on he became one of the most reviled targets of the public guardians of morality and religion; for some he appeared to be truly the Devil incarnate, Mandevil, as Fielding and others spelled it. This reputation was attached to his name well into the nineteenth centu ry. In a diary entry for June 1812 Henry Crabb Robinson recorded the following conversation with the elderly Mrs. Buller: "She received me with a smile, and allowed me to touch her hand. 'What are you reading, Mr. Robinson?' she said. 'The wickedest cleverest book in the English language, if you chance to know it. ' - 'I have known the "Fable of the Bees" more than fifty years. ' She was right in her guess.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940101633X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
For centuries readers have admired the writer who wields his pen like a sword - an Aristophanes, a Rabelais, a Montaigne, a Swift. Using ribaldry, satire and irony in varying proportions, such writers pierce the thick, comfortable hide of society and uncover, predictably, the corruption and hypocrisy that characterize the life of man in commercial society. Though a lesser talent than any of these literary giants, Bernard Mande ville is nevertheless a member of their class. The crucial year in the emergence of his reputation was 1723, the year in which he added his controversial Essay on Charity and Charity-Schools to his Fable of the Bees. From that point on he became one of the most reviled targets of the public guardians of morality and religion; for some he appeared to be truly the Devil incarnate, Mandevil, as Fielding and others spelled it. This reputation was attached to his name well into the nineteenth centu ry. In a diary entry for June 1812 Henry Crabb Robinson recorded the following conversation with the elderly Mrs. Buller: "She received me with a smile, and allowed me to touch her hand. 'What are you reading, Mr. Robinson?' she said. 'The wickedest cleverest book in the English language, if you chance to know it. ' - 'I have known the "Fable of the Bees" more than fifty years. ' She was right in her guess.
Catalogue of the Library
Author: Hispanic Society of America Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Languages : en
Pages : 836
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A Fig for Fortune
Author: Anthony Copley
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338510551X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338510551X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Sources of English History of the Seventeenth Century, 1603-1689, in the University of Minnesota Library
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Catalogue of Books in the Library of Queen's College, Belfast
Author: Queen's University of Belfast. Library
Publisher:
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Category : College catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 994
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Category : College catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 994
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