The Beautiful Railway Bridge Of The Silvery Tay
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The Beautiful Railway Bridge Of The Silvery Tay
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Author : Peter R. Lewis
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2012-05-30
The Beautiful Railway Bridge Of The Silvery Tay written by Peter R. Lewis and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-30 with Social Science categories.
Over 125 years ago, barely a year and a half after the Tay Railway Bridge was built, William McGonnagal composed his poem about the Tay Bridge Disaster, the poem about Britain's worst-ever civil engineering disaster. Over 80 people lost their lives in the fall of the Tay Bridge, but how did it happen? The accident reports say that high wind and poor construction were to blame, but Peter Lewis, an Open University engineering professor, tells the real story of how the bridge so spectacularly collapsed in December 1879.
The Tay Bridge Disaster And Other Poetic Gems
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Author : William McGonagall
language : en
Publisher: Orchises Press
Release Date : 2000
The Tay Bridge Disaster And Other Poetic Gems written by William McGonagall and has been published by Orchises Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Poetry categories.
The Railway Bridge Of The Silvery Tay And Other Disasters
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Author : William McGonagall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
The Railway Bridge Of The Silvery Tay And Other Disasters written by William McGonagall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Poetry categories.
The Map And The Clock
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Author : Carol Ann Duffy
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2016-10-04
The Map And The Clock written by Carol Ann Duffy and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-04 with Poetry categories.
Curated by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke, the National Poet of Wales, this new anthology gathers from centuries of essential poems. The editors have drawn on the rich languages of these islands, starting with the very first poets whose names we know - Taliesin and Aneirin, who composed in Welsh and Old Brythoneg in what is now Scotland - 'to begin at the beginning', to explore the poetry of Ireland and the British Isles in order to tell our story across the ages in this beautiful, vital treasury.
Nineteenth Century English Labouring Class Poets Vol 3
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Author : John Goodridge
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-08-13
Nineteenth Century English Labouring Class Poets Vol 3 written by John Goodridge and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Over 100 poets of labouring class origin were published in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. Some were hugely popular and important in their day but few are available today. This is a collection of some of those poems from the 19th century.
The Golden Treasury Of Scottish Verse
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Author : Kathleen Jamie
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2021-09-16
The Golden Treasury Of Scottish Verse written by Kathleen Jamie and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-16 with Poetry categories.
The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse is a timeless collection of Scottish poetry. It contains over three hundred poems ranging from the early medieval period to the twenty-first century, and paints a full-colour portrait of Scotland’s poetic heritage and culture. Edited and introduced by award-winning poets Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson and Peter Mackay, and including poems by Robert Burns, Carol Ann Duffy, Sorley Maclean, Violet Jacob, William Dunbar, Meg Bateman, George Mackay Brown, Màiri Mhòr nan Òran, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jackie Kay, Liz Lochhead, and many more, The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse is a joyous celebration of Scotland’s literary past, present and future.
The Mammoth Book Of Losers
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Author : Karl Shaw
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-06-05
The Mammoth Book Of Losers written by Karl Shaw and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-05 with Humor categories.
This compendious celebration of ineptitude includes some of history’s most spectacularly ill-conceived expeditions and entirely useless pursuits, and features tales of black comedy, insane foolhardiness, breathtaking stupidity and relentless perseverance in the face of inevitable defeat. It rejoices in men and women made of the Wrong Stuff: writers who believed in the power of words, but could never quite find the rights ones; artists and performers who indulged their creative impulse with a passion, if not a sense of the ridiculous, an eye for perspective or the ability to hold down a tune; scientists and businessmen who never quite managed to quit while they were ahead; and sportsmen who seemed to manage always to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Like Walter Oudney, one of three men chosen to find the source of the River Niger in Africa, who could not ride a horse, nor speak any foreign languages and who had never travelled more than 30 miles beyond his native Edinburgh; or the explorer-priest Michel Alexandre de Baize, who set off to explore the African continent from east to west equipped with 24 umbrellas, some fireworks, two suits of armor, and a portable organ; or the Scottish army which decided to invade England in 1349 – during the Black Death. Entries include: briefest career in dentistry; least successful bonding exercise; most futile attempt to find a lost tribe; most pointless lines of research by someone who should have known better; least successful celebrity endorsement; least convincing excuse for a war; worst poetic tribute to a root vegetable; least successful display of impartiality by a juror; Devon Loch – sporting metaphor for blowing un unblowable lead; least dignified exit from office by a French president; and least successful expedition by camel.
Crashes Crises And Calamities
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Author : Len Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2011-03-29
Crashes Crises And Calamities written by Len Fisher and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-29 with Science categories.
Why do certain civilizations, societies, and ecosystems collapse? How does the domino effect relate to the credit crunch? When can mathematics help explain marriage? And how on earth do toads predict earthquakes? The future is uncertain. But science can help foretell what lies ahead. Drawing on ecology and biology, math and physics, Crashes, Crises, and Calamities offers four fundamental tools that scientists and engineers use to forecast the likelihood of sudden change: stability, catastrophe, complexity, and game theories. In accessible prose, Len Fisher demonstrates how we can foresee and manage events that might otherwise catch us by surprise. At the cutting edge of science, Fisher helps us find ways to act before a full-fledged catastrophe is upon us. Crashes, Crises, and Calamities is a witty and informative exploration of the chaos, complexity, and patterns of our daily lives.
The Offense Of Poetry
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Author : Hazard Adams
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2011-07-01
The Offense Of Poetry written by Hazard Adams and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
There is something offensive and scandalous about poetry, judging by the number of attacks on it and defenses of it written over the centuries. Poetry, Hazard Adams argues, exists to offend - not through its subject matter but through the challenges it presents to the prevailing view of what language is for. Poetry's main cultural value is its offensiveness; it should be defended as offensive. Adams specifies four poetic offenses - gesture, drama, fiction, and trope - and devotes a chapter to each, ranging across the landscape of traditional literary criticism and exploring the various attitudes toward poetry, including both attacks and defenses, offered by writers from Plato and Aristotle to Sidney, Vico, Blake, Yeats, and Seamus Heaney, among others. "Criticism," Adams writes, "needs renewal in every age to free poetry from the prejudices of that age and the unintended prejudices of even the best critics of the past, to free poetry to perform its provocative, antithetical cultural role." Poetry achieves its cultural value by opposing the binary oppositions - form and content, fact and fiction, reason and emotion - that structure and polarize most understandings of literature and of life. Adams takes a position antithetical to the extremes of both abstract formalism and the politicization of literary content. He concludes with an appreciation of what he calls the double offense of "great bad poetry," poetry so exceptionally bad that it transcends its shortcomings and leads to gaiety. He reminds us that Blake, in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, identified angels with the settled and coercive and assigned the qualities of energy and creativity to his devils. According to Adams, poetry, in its broad and traditional sense of all imaginative writing, may be identified with Blake's devils.
William Mcgonagall
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Author : Chris Hunt
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn
Release Date : 2011-06-14
William Mcgonagall written by Chris Hunt and has been published by Birlinn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-14 with Poetry categories.
William McGonagall was born in Edinburgh in 1830. His father was a poor hand-loom weaver, and his work took his family to Glasgow, then to Dundee. William attended school for eighteen months before the age of seven, and received no further formal education. Later, as a mill worker, he used to read books in the evening, taking great interest in Shakespeare's plays. In 1877, McGonagall suddenly discovered himself 'to be a poet'. Since then, thousands of people the world over have enjoyed the verse of Scotland's alternative national poet. This volume brings together the three famous collections – Poetic Gems, More Poetic Gems and Last Poetic Gems, and also includes an introduction by Chris Hunt, the webmaster of the McGonagall website www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk, indexes of poem titles and first lines, and features the first publication of McGonagall's only play, Jack o' the Cudgel, written in 1886 but not performed publicly until 2002.
