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Horace Walpole S Cat
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Author : Christopher Frayling
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2009-10-06
Horace Walpole S Cat written by Christopher Frayling and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The tragic death of Walpole's cat and the Thomas Gray poem written in her honor: the true story of what happened, and a look at the lively social and cultural scene in the eighteenth century. This delightful compendium focuses on one of the best-loved poems in the English language, but in the process it takes the reader on an engaging romp through the literary, intellectual, and cultural world of the eighteenth century. It brings alive a host of engaging characters: Horace Walpole himself (one of the great letter writers of all time, wit, raconteur; the curmudgeonly Dr. Johnson (who nevertheless had “a very fine cat indeed”) and his sometimes recalcitrant biographer James Boswell; and a cast of “handsome cats,” including Selima and Zama. In February 1747, Selima the tabby fell into a Chinese blue and white porcelain tub in Walpole’s house in London’s Mayfair and never returned to dry land. The poem by Thomas Gray, “Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold-fishes,” was written as her mock epitaph. Here is the true history of the event, and a look at the sparkling social and cultural life of the period. It is beautifully illustrated with Richard Bentley’s original series of designs for the poem, William Blake’s wonderful watercolors of some fifty years later, and the unpublished color illustrations produced in the 1940s by the noted children’s book illustrator Kathleen Hale, of Orlando the Marmalade Cat fame.
A Book Of Cats
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Author : Dorothy Margaret Stuart
language : en
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Release Date : 2017-04-20
A Book Of Cats written by Dorothy Margaret Stuart and has been published by Fonthill Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-20 with Pets categories.
The cat -- a goddess, an enigma, a playmate and a friend. Dorothy M. Stuart approaches her subject along four main roads: archaeology, history, legend and literature. The Ancient Egyptian Mau is here; the enchanted cats of Irish legend; the Gib of Gammer Gurton s Needle. Hodge and Selima, Jeffry and Dinah refused to be left out; but there are less familiar examples, too: the cat which voluntarily shared the Earl of Southampton s captivity in the Tower; the kitten in whose defence John Keats had a stand up fight with a brutal butcher-boy of Hampstead; the delinquent who at dead of night gnawed the strings of her master s lute. Graymalkin, the witches familiar, comes into the picture; and we catch fascinating glimpses of two furry sympathizers licking the tears from Florence Nightingale s cheeks, and of Cardinal Richelieu solemnly adding something on behalf of a cat and her kittens to the modest pension assigned by His Eminence to Mademoiselle Marie de Gournay, Montaigne s polished female friend. Dorothy M. Stuart is better known for her elegant and polished biographies, but in this short book we see a lighter side of her pen in an appreciation of feline company.
Curious History Of Cats
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Author : Madeline Swan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-10
Curious History Of Cats written by Madeline Swan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10 with categories.
The cat has an exotic story in history, legend and literature, and in ancient times it was revered as a goddess and an object of devotion. This book celebrates the many great cats throughout history, as well as profiling famous cat lovers such as Dr Johnson, Horace Walpole and Sir Walter Scott.
Horace Walpole S Cat
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Author : Christopher Frayling
language : en
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Release Date : 2009-10-06
Horace Walpole S Cat written by Christopher Frayling and has been published by Thames and Hudson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-06 with Art categories.
The tragic death of Walpole's cat and the Thomas Gray poem written in her honor: the true story of what happened, and a look at the lively social and cultural scene in the eighteenth century. This delightful compendium focuses on one of the best-loved poems in the English language, but in the process it takes the reader on an engaging romp through the literary, intellectual, and cultural world of the eighteenth century. It brings alive a host of engaging characters: Horace Walpole himself (one of the great letter writers of all time, wit, raconteur; the curmudgeonly Dr. Johnson (who nevertheless had “a very fine cat indeed”) and his sometimes recalcitrant biographer James Boswell; and a cast of “handsome cats,” including Selima and Zama. In February 1747, Selima the tabby fell into a Chinese blue and white porcelain tub in Walpole’s house in London’s Mayfair and never returned to dry land. The poem by Thomas Gray, “Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold-fishes,” was written as her mock epitaph. Here is the true history of the event, and a look at the sparkling social and cultural life of the period. It is beautifully illustrated with Richard Bentley’s original series of designs for the poem, William Blake’s wonderful watercolors of some fifty years later, and the unpublished color illustrations produced in the 1940s by the noted children’s book illustrator Kathleen Hale, of Orlando the Marmalade Cat fame.
The Poems Of T S Eliot Volume Ii
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Author : T. S. Eliot
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2015-11-17
The Poems Of T S Eliot Volume Ii written by T. S. Eliot and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-17 with Poetry categories.
The Poems of T. S. Eliot is the authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets, scrupulously edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. It provides, for the first time, a fully scrutinized text of Eliot's poems, carefully restoring accidental omissions and removing textual errors that have crept in over the full century in which Eliot has been so frequently printed and reprinted. The edition also presents many poems from Eliot's youth which were published only decades later, as well as others that saw only private circulation in his lifetime, of which dozens are collected for the first time. To accompany Eliot's poems, Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue have provided a commentary that illuminates the creative activity that came to constitute each poem, calling upon drafts, correspondence and other original materials to provide a vivid account of the poet's working processes, his reading, his influences and his revisions. The first volume respects Eliot's decisions by opening with his Collected Poems 1909-1962 in the form in which he issued it, shortly before his death fifty years ago. There follow in this first volume the uncollected poems from his youth that he had chosen to publish, along with such other poems as could be considered suitable for publication. The second volume opens with the two books of poems of other kinds that he issued, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and his translation of Perse's Anabase, moving then to verses privately circulated as informal or improper or clubmanlike. Each of these sections is accompanied by its respective commentary, and then, pertaining to the entire edition, there is a comprehensive textual history recording variants both manuscript and published. The Poems of T. S. Eliot is a work of enlightening scholarship that will delight and inform all those who read Eliot for pleasure, as well as all those who read with pleasure and for study. Here are a new accuracy and an unparalleled insight into the marvels and landmarks from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land through to Four Quartets
Poetry And Animals
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Author : Onno Oerlemans
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2018-03-06
Poetry And Animals written by Onno Oerlemans and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-06 with Nature categories.
Why do poets write about animals? What can poetry do for animals and what can animals do for poetry? In some cases, poetry inscribes meaning on animals, turning them into symbols or caricatures and bringing them into the confines of human culture. It also reveals and revels in the complexity of animals. Poetry, through its great variety and its inherently experimental nature, has embraced the multifaceted nature of animals to cross, blur, and reimagine the boundaries between human and animal. In Poetry and Animals, Onno Oerlemans explores a broad range of English-language poetry about animals from the Middle Ages to the contemporary world. He presents a taxonomy of kinds of animal poems, breaking down the categories and binary oppositions at the root of human thinking about animals. The book considers several different types of poetry: allegorical poems, poems about “the animal” broadly conceived, poems about species of animal, poems about individual animals or the animal as individual, and poems about hybrids and hybridity. Through careful readings of dozens of poems that reveal generous and often sympathetic approaches to recognizing and valuing animals’ difference and similarity, Oerlemans demonstrates how the forms and modes of poetry can sensitize us to the moral standing of animals and give us new ways to think through the problems of the human-animal divide.
Letters Of T S Eliot Volume 8
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Author : T. S. Eliot
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2019-01-15
Letters Of T S Eliot Volume 8 written by T. S. Eliot and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Eliot is called upon to become the completely public man. He gives talks, lectures, readings and broadcasts, and even school prize-day addresses. As editor and publisher, his work is unrelenting, commissioning works ranging from Michael Roberts's The Modern Mind to Elizabeth Bowen's anthology The Faber Book of Modern Stories. Other letters reveal Eliot's delight in close friends such as John Hayward, Virginia Woolf and Polly Tandy, and his colleagues Geoffrey Faber and Frank Morley, as well as his growing troupe of godchildren - to whom he despatches many of the verses that will ultimately be gathered up in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939). The volume covers his separation from first wife Vivien, and tells the full story of the decision taken by her brother, following the best available medical advice, to commit her to an asylum - after she had been found wandering in the streets of London. All the while these numerous strands of correspondence are being played out, Eliot struggles to find the time to compose his second play, The Family Reunion (1939), which is finally completed in 1938.
Notes And Queries A Medium Of Inter Communication For Literary Men Artists Antiquaries Genealogists Etc
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
Notes And Queries A Medium Of Inter Communication For Literary Men Artists Antiquaries Genealogists Etc written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with categories.
Parodies Of The Romantic Age
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Author : Graeme Stones
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-07-30
Parodies Of The Romantic Age written by Graeme Stones and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume collects together a wealth of material ranging from verse parodies originally published in pamphlet form, to longer works such as P.G. Patmore's parodies of the works of Byron, Lamb and Hazlitt.
The Letters Of Horace Walpole Earl Of Oxford
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Author : Horace Walpole
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1857
The Letters Of Horace Walpole Earl Of Oxford written by Horace Walpole and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1857 with categories.