Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Pseudodoxia Epidemica
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Who's on First?
Author: Lloyd Schwartz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022679508X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"There is no one quite like Lloyd Schwartz, whose unique combination of comedy and pathos is rare in contemporary American poetry. Over the years and books, Schwartz has developed a pitch-perfect ear for dialogue, producing poems that are hilarious in their depiction of unsettling social situations, while still managing to find the kernel of poignancy buried in everyday encounters. He is a master of the speech-driven style of verse, which is based on overheard, interrupted, or invented conversations that are by turns humorous and deeply unsettling, intimate yet decorous. In the new poems section, Schwartz brings his broad experience across the arts (including his many years as a music critic and commentator) to bear, with poems that recall the feeling of both performing and apprehending a piece of music, say, or a painting, a film, or a poem; he explores the figures depicted within these artworks, their fears and desires, revealing whole unexplored, interior worlds, a universe in a pack of tarot cards. This collection, which gathers the very best of Schwartz's work over his long, distinguished career, amply displays the tenderness and delicacy of feeling that we've come to rely on in his poetry. "Who's on First?" is a fitting capstone to a long life lived in the arts"--
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022679508X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"There is no one quite like Lloyd Schwartz, whose unique combination of comedy and pathos is rare in contemporary American poetry. Over the years and books, Schwartz has developed a pitch-perfect ear for dialogue, producing poems that are hilarious in their depiction of unsettling social situations, while still managing to find the kernel of poignancy buried in everyday encounters. He is a master of the speech-driven style of verse, which is based on overheard, interrupted, or invented conversations that are by turns humorous and deeply unsettling, intimate yet decorous. In the new poems section, Schwartz brings his broad experience across the arts (including his many years as a music critic and commentator) to bear, with poems that recall the feeling of both performing and apprehending a piece of music, say, or a painting, a film, or a poem; he explores the figures depicted within these artworks, their fears and desires, revealing whole unexplored, interior worlds, a universe in a pack of tarot cards. This collection, which gathers the very best of Schwartz's work over his long, distinguished career, amply displays the tenderness and delicacy of feeling that we've come to rely on in his poetry. "Who's on First?" is a fitting capstone to a long life lived in the arts"--
Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Books 4-7
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Errors, Popular
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Errors, Popular
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Garden of Cyrus..
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
The Erroneous Disposition of the People
Author: David Barnes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780956316653
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of prose and poetry inspired by Sir Thomas Browne's 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica'.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780956316653
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of prose and poetry inspired by Sir Thomas Browne's 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica'.
Plagues of the Mind
Author: Bruce S. Thornton
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497648939
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
A stirring and sobering diagnosis of the challenges that confront anyone laboring to renew America’s tradition of ordered liberty. Classicist Bruce Thornton’s Plagues of the Mind is a forceful vindication of the West’s tradition of rational, critical inquiry—a legacy now largely jettisoned in favor of a host of new deities, environmentalism, feminism, primitivism, New Age, and the cult of the therapeutic among them.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497648939
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
A stirring and sobering diagnosis of the challenges that confront anyone laboring to renew America’s tradition of ordered liberty. Classicist Bruce Thornton’s Plagues of the Mind is a forceful vindication of the West’s tradition of rational, critical inquiry—a legacy now largely jettisoned in favor of a host of new deities, environmentalism, feminism, primitivism, New Age, and the cult of the therapeutic among them.
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
The Rings of Saturn
Author: W. G. Sebald
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 081122130X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
"The book is like a dream you want to last forever" (Roberta Silman, The New York Times Book Review), now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund A masterwork of W. G. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund The Rings of Saturn—with its curious archive of photographs—records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne’s skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recession-hit seaside towns, wooded hills, Joseph Conrad, Rembrandt’s "Anatomy Lesson," the natural history of the herring, the massive bombings of WWII, the dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, and the silk industry in Norwich. W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants (New Directions, 1996) was hailed by Susan Sontag as an "astonishing masterpiece perfect while being unlike any book one has ever read." It was "one of the great books of the last few years," noted Michael Ondaatje, who now acclaims The Rings of Saturn "an even more inventive work than its predecessor, The Emigrants."
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 081122130X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
"The book is like a dream you want to last forever" (Roberta Silman, The New York Times Book Review), now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund A masterwork of W. G. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund The Rings of Saturn—with its curious archive of photographs—records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne’s skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recession-hit seaside towns, wooded hills, Joseph Conrad, Rembrandt’s "Anatomy Lesson," the natural history of the herring, the massive bombings of WWII, the dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, and the silk industry in Norwich. W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants (New Directions, 1996) was hailed by Susan Sontag as an "astonishing masterpiece perfect while being unlike any book one has ever read." It was "one of the great books of the last few years," noted Michael Ondaatje, who now acclaims The Rings of Saturn "an even more inventive work than its predecessor, The Emigrants."
Sir Thomas Browne
Author: Reid Barbour
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199236216
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
An impressive line-up of scholars from across the world explore the significance of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82), a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Doctor, linguist, scientist, and natural historian, Browne was also the writer of some of the most remarkable prose in the English language.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199236216
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
An impressive line-up of scholars from across the world explore the significance of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82), a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Doctor, linguist, scientist, and natural historian, Browne was also the writer of some of the most remarkable prose in the English language.
The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science
Author: Peter Harrison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521000963
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
An examination of the role played by the Bible in the emergence of natural science.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521000963
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
An examination of the role played by the Bible in the emergence of natural science.