A Footnote To My Epitaph
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A Footnote To My Epitaph
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
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A Footnote To My Epitaph
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Author : David Mason-Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-10-31
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The biography of a young Ukrainian man who became caught up in the catastrophic war in Eastern Europe from 1941 to his capture at Kishinev in 1944. He was the Lieutenant in charge of a platoon of reconnaissance soldiers and spent a total of one thousand days at the front. He ended the war at a German prisoner of war camp, Stalag 326, near Osnabruck. After the war he feared returning to Stalin's Soviet Union and so began his refugee story. In 1950 he came to Australia as a displaced person and settled in the Hunter Valley. He overcame the lingering torments of war neurosis to build a successful life in the Australian community. The main theme of the book is the Victory of Hope over Despair.
The English Poetic Epitaph
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Author : Joshua Scodel
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1991
The English Poetic Epitaph written by Joshua Scodel and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Death in literature categories.
In the first major study of the genre, Joshua Scodel shows how English poets have used the poetic epitaph to express their views concerning the power and limitations of poetry as a response to human mortality.
A Footnote To My Epitaph
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Author : Peter Repa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
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The Selected Works Of Andrew Lang
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Author : Andrew Lang
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
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The Selected Works Of Andrew Lang written by Andrew Lang and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
When the learned first gave serious attention to popular ballads, from the time of Percy to that of Scott, they laboured under certain disabilities. The Comparative Method was scarcely understood, and was little practised. Editors were content to study the ballads of their own countryside, or, at most, of Great Britain. Teutonic and Northern parallels to our ballads were then adduced, as by Scott and Jamieson. It was later that the ballads of Europe, from the Faroes to Modern Greece, were compared with our own, with EuropeanMärchen, or children’s tales, and with the popular songs, dances, and traditions of classical and savage peoples. The results of this more recent comparison may be briefly stated. Poetry begins, as Aristotle says, in improvisation. Every man is his own poet, and, in moments of stronge motion, expresses himself in song. A typical example is the Song of Lamech in Genesis—“I have slain a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt.” Instances perpetually occur in the Sagas: Grettir, Egil, Skarphedin, are always singing. In Kidnapped, Mr. Stevenson introduces “The Song of the Sword of Alan,” a fine example of Celtic practice: words and air are beaten out together, in the heat of victory. In the same way, the women sang improvised dirges, like Helen; lullabies, like the lullaby of Danae in Simonides, and flower songs, as in modern Italy. Every function of life, war, agriculture, the chase, had its appropriate magical and mimetic dance and song, as in Finland, among Red Indians, and among Australian blacks. “The deeds of men” were chanted by heroes, as by Achilles; stories were told in alternate verse and prose; girls, like Homer’s Nausicaa, accompanied dance and ball play, priests and medicine-men accompanied rites and magical ceremonies by songs. These practices are world-wide, and world-old. The thoroughly popular songs, thus evolved, became the rude material of a professional class of minstrels, when these arose, as in the heroic age of Greece. A minstrel might be attached to a Court, or a noble; or he might go wandering with song and harp among the people. In either case, this class of men developed more regular and ample measures. They evolved the hexameter; the laisse of the Chansons de Geste; the strange technicalities of Scandinavian poetry; the metres of Vedic hymns; the choral odes of Greece. The narrative popular chant became in their hands the Epic, or the mediaeval rhymed romance. The metre of improvised verse changed into the artistic lyric. These lyric forms were fixed, in many cases, by the art of writing. But poetry did not remain solely in professional and literary hands. The mediaeval minstrels and jongleurs (who may best be studied in Léon Gautier’s Introduction to his Epopées Françaises) sang in Court and Camp. The poorer, less regular brethren of the art, harped and played conjuring tricks, in farm and grange, or at street corners. The foreign newer metres took the place of the old alliterative English verse. But unprofessional men and women did not cease to make and sing.
The Collected Works Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Author : Samuel Taylor Coleridge
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1969
The Collected Works Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with English literature categories.
Curious Epitaphs
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Author : Various Authors
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28
Curious Epitaphs written by Various Authors and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with Fiction categories.
Les Mis Rables
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Author : Victor Hugo
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-11-07
Les Mis Rables written by Victor Hugo and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-07 with Fiction categories.
A brilliant modern translation by Christine Donougher of Victor Hugo's thrilling masterpiece, with an introduction by Robert Tombs. This is the best translation of the novel available in English, as recommended by David Bellos in The Novel of the Century. Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, and by the relentless investigations of the dogged policeman Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty. 'A magnificent achievement. It reads easily, sometimes racily, and Hugo's narrative power is never let down ... An almost flawless translation, which brings the full flavour of one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century to new readers in the twenty-first' - William Doyle, Times Literary Supplement 'The year's most interesting publication from Penguin Classics was [...] a new translation by Christine Donougher of the novel we all know as Les Misérables. You may think that 1,300 pages is a huge investment of time when the story is so familiar, but no adaptation can convey the addictive pleasure afforded by Victor Hugo's narrative voice: by turns chatty, crotchety, buoyant and savagely ironical, it's made to seem so contemporary and fresh in Donougher's rendering that the book has all the resonance of the most topical state-of-the-nation novel' - Telegraph 'Christine Donougher's seamless and very modern translation of Les Misérables has an astonishing effect in that it reminds readers that Hugo was going further than any Dickensian lament about social conditions [...]The Wretched touches the soul' - Herald Scotland
James Boswell S Life Of Johnson
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Author : James Boswell
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2012-07-27
James Boswell S Life Of Johnson written by James Boswell and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
The third and penultimate volume in the Yale Research Edition's genetic transcription of the manuscript of Boswell's biographical masterwork.
Homer And His Age
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Author : Andrew Lang
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-11-26
Homer And His Age written by Andrew Lang and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-26 with History categories.
In 'Homer and His Age', Andrew Lang examines the controversy surrounding the authorship of Homer's epic poems. Lang argues that the fallacy of the analytical reader, who expects a level of consistency beyond the intended audience of the poet, is at the root of many objections to the idea that only Homer and no other author wrote his poems. Lang explores the way of life described in the poems, demonstrating that it reflects a single brief age of culture. He urges readers not to be swayed by dogmatic assumptions about the most fashionable hypothesis, but to approach the study of Homer with the scientific spirit of comparison, logic, and economy of conjecture.