A Kind Of Order A Kind Of Folly
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A Kind Of Order A Kind Of Folly
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Author : Stanley Kunitz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
A Kind Of Order A Kind Of Folly written by Stanley Kunitz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with categories.
In Praise Of Folly
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Author : Desiderius Erasmus
language : en
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Release Date : 2007-06-01
In Praise Of Folly written by Desiderius Erasmus and has been published by Cosimo, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-01 with Literary Collections categories.
Comments on the upper classes and religious institutions of the Renaissance through the personification of traits such as folly, wealth, and flattery.
Preaching
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Author : Ian Pitt-Watson
language : en
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Release Date : 1976
Preaching written by Ian Pitt-Watson and has been published by Westminster John Knox Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Religion categories.
Banvard S Folly
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Author : Paul Collins
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2015-03-10
Banvard S Folly written by Paul Collins and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-10 with History categories.
The historical record crowns success. Those enshrined in its annals are men and women whose ideas, accomplishments, or personalities have dominated, endured, and most important of all, found champions. John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, and Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets are classic celebrations of the greatest, the brightest, the eternally constellated. Paul Collins' Banvard's Folly is a different kind of book. Here are thirteen unforgettable portraits of forgotten people: men and women who might have claimed their share of renown but who, whether from ill timing, skullduggery, monomania, the tinge of madness, or plain bad luck--or perhaps some combination of them all--leapt straight from life into thankless obscurity. Among their number are scientists, artists, writers, entrepreneurs, and adventurers, from across the centuries and around the world. They hold in common the silenced aftermath of failure, the name that rings no bells. Collins brings them back to glorious life. John Banvard was an artist whose colossal panoramic canvasses (one behemoth depiction of the entire eastern shore of the Mississippi River was simply known as "The Three Mile Painting") made him the richest and most famous artist of his day. . . before he decided to go head to head with P. T. Barnum. René Blondot was a distinguished French physicist whose celebrated discovery of a new form of radiation, called the N-Ray, went terribly awry. At the tender age of seventeen, William Henry Ireland signed "William Shakespeare" to a book and launched a short but meteoric career as a forger of undiscovered works by the Bard -- until he pushed his luck too far. John Symmes, a hero of the War of 1812, nearly succeeded in convincing Congress to fund an expedition to the North Pole, where he intended to prove his theory that the earth was hollow and ripe for exploitation; his quixotic quest counted Jules Verne and Edgar Allan Poe among its greatest admirers. Collins' love for what he calls the "forgotten ephemera of genius" give his portraits of these figures and the other nine men and women in Banvard's Folly sympathetic depth and poignant relevance. Their effect is not to make us sneer or p0revel in schadenfreude; here are no cautionary tales. Rather, here are brief introductions-acts of excavation and reclamation-to people whom history may have forgotten, but whom now we cannot.
The Folly Of Fools
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Author : Robert Trivers
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2011-10-25
The Folly Of Fools written by Robert Trivers and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-25 with Science categories.
Explores the author's theorized evolutionary basis for self-deception, which he says is tied to group conflict, courtship, neurophysiology, and immunology, but can be negated by awareness of it and its results.
The Praise Of Folly
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Author : Desiderius Erasmus
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2015-06-09
The Praise Of Folly written by Desiderius Erasmus 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 2015-06-09 with Philosophy categories.
Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work. Originally written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, this satiric celebration of pleasure, youth, and intoxication irreverently pokes fun at the pieties of theologians and the foibles that make us all human, while ultimately reaffirming the value of Christian ideals. No other book displays quite so completely the transition from the medieval to the modern world, and Erasmus's wit, wisdom, and critical spirit have lost none of their timeliness today. This Princeton Classics edition of The Praise of Folly features a new foreword by Anthony Grafton that provides an essential introduction to this iridescent and enduring masterpiece.
Folly
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Author : Edith Rickert
language : en
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Release Date : 2013-09
Folly written by Edith Rickert and has been published by Rarebooksclub.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...of love when the grim forces of the body are at war! ' You will let me do everything I can?' ' I will let you '--he yielded to a momentary shudder--' have your own way in all things.' ' Then I am content, ' she murmured, 'for my way will be your way.' 'Are you sure of that?' he tried to ask lightly. ' That's still another Folly.' ' There have been so many Follies from the beginning, ' she answered soberly. ' But I think this Folly is a stranger to them all; and I am sure she is yours--at your will ' She laid her head upon his shoulder, and both were outwardly quiet; but he was wondering, with a kind of wild impatience, how he could bring endearments to lips that were stiffened with pain, or caress her when his whole body shrank into one great longing for quiescence; and she was thinking that the flaw must be in herself that prevented their perfect understanding--the continuance of that exquisite joy that had lasted but a moment, when she first came to him.... He stirred involuntarily, and a faint groan escaped him. She sprang to her feet with a tender little cry: ' Ah, you are exhausted, and I am keeping you up! You must go to bed. And to-morrow ' ' Yes, to-morrow, ' was all he could say. ' You will be better to-morrow.' ' I shall be all right. And we can talk again. We shall have all the time now.' ' Perhaps I have been troubling you?' There was a real question under her feigned laugh. Troubling him? His only thought was how to be rid of her quickly, and sink under the burden that he could not bear longer without sign. Her wistful ' Good-night, then, ' was a...
Thale S Folly
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Author : Dorothy Gilman
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2020-12-01
Thale S Folly written by Dorothy Gilman and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-01 with Fiction categories.
A New Yorker becomes ensnared by the eerie drama unfolding at a derelict New England family home in this charming mystery from the author of the Mrs. Pollifax novels. “Delightful . . . a suspenseful romp . . . highly recommended.”—Booklist At the request of his father, New York City novelist Andrew Thale tackles an odd assignment—to check out an old family property in Massachusetts, neglected since Aunt Harriet Thale’s death years ago. But far from being deserted, Thale’s Folly, as Andrew discovers, is fully inhabited—by a quartet of charming squatters, former “guests” of kindhearted Harriet. There is elegant Miss L’Hommedieu, Gussie the witch, Leo the bibliophile, and beautiful Tarragon, who is unlike any girl Andrew has ever met in Manhattan. Andrew is entranced by these unworldly creatures and their simple life. Yet all is not well in Thale’s Folly. A thief breaks into the farmhouse, an old friend of the “family” disappears, and Andrew and Tarragon are drawn into mysteries they cannot fathom. . . .
Behind The Lines
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Author : Philip Metres
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2007-05
Behind The Lines written by Philip Metres and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Whether Thersites in Homer’s Iliad, Wilfred Owen in “Dulce et Decorum Est,” or Allen Ginsberg in “Wichita Vortex Sutra,” poets have long given solitary voice against the brutality of war. The hasty cancellation of the 2003 White House symposium “Poetry and the American Voice” in the face of protests by Sam Hamill and other invited guests against the coming “shock and awe” campaign in Iraq reminded us that poetry and poets still have the power to challenge the powerful. Behind the Lines investigates American war resistance poetry from the Second World War through the Iraq wars. Rather than simply chronicling the genre, Philip Metres argues that this poetry gets to the heart of who is authorized to speak about war and how it can be represented. As such, he explores a largely neglected area of scholarship: the poet’s relationship to dissenting political movements and the nation. In his elegant study, Metres examines the ways in which war resistance is registered not only in terms of its content but also at the level of the lyric. He proposes that protest poetry constitutes a subgenre that—by virtue of its preoccupation with politics, history, and trauma—probes the limits of American lyric poetry. Thus, war resistance poetry—and the role of what Shelley calls unacknowledged legislators—is a crucial, though largely unexamined, body of writing that stands at the center of dissident political movements.
A Kind Of Folly
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Author : Owen Holder
language : en
Publisher: London : Evans Bros Limited
Release Date : 1955
A Kind Of Folly written by Owen Holder and has been published by London : Evans Bros Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with Engelse drama categories.