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The Lives of the Poets

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191622737
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Lives of the Poets written by Samuel Johnson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-05-28 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope - are memorable cameos of the life of writing in which Johnson is as attentive to human frailty as to literary prowess. The shorter Lives preserve some of Johnson's most piercing, critical judgements. Unsentimental, opinionated, and quotable, The Lives of the Poets continues to influence the reputations of the writers concerned. It is one of the greatest works of English criticism, but also one of the most humanly diverting. This selection of the Lives of ten of the most important poets draws its text from Roger Lonsdale's authoritative complete edition. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

The Lives of the English Poets

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book The Lives of the English Poets written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

One Day in the Life of the English Language

Author : Frank L. Cioffi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691165076
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book One Day in the Life of the English Language written by Frank L. Cioffi and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-of-a-kind handbook that uses a day in the life of written English to illustrate the benefits of effective grammar Generations of student writers have been subjected to usage handbooks that proclaim, "This is the correct form. Learn it"—books that lay out a grammar, but don't inspire students to use it. By contrast, this antihandbook handbook, presenting some three hundred sentences drawn from the printed works of a single, typical day in the life of the language—December 29, 2008—tries to persuade readers that good grammar and usage matter. Using real-world sentences rather than invented ones, One Day in the Life of the English Language gives students the motivation to apply grammatical principles correctly and efficiently. Frank Cioffi argues that proper form undergirds effective communication and ultimately even makes society work more smoothly, while nonstandard English often marginalizes or stigmatizes a writer. He emphasizes the evolving nature of English usage and debunks some cherished but flawed grammar precepts. Is it acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition? It is. Can you start a sentence with a conjunction? You can. OK to split an infinitive? No problem. A grammar and usage handbook like no other, One Day in the Life of the English Language features accessible chapters divided into "Fundamentals," "Fine Tuning," and "Deep Focus," allowing readers to select a level most suited to their needs. It also includes a glossary, a teachers' guide, and a section refuting some myths about digital-age English.

The Lives of the English Rakes

Author : Fergus Linnane
Publisher : Piatkus Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lives of the English Rakes written by Fergus Linnane and published by Piatkus Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating and well-researched history of the notorious English rake.

The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Writing Book

Author : Tina Kasloff Carver
Publisher : Pearson Education ESL
ISBN 13 : 9780131879720
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book A Writing Book written by Tina Kasloff Carver and published by Pearson Education ESL. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich teacher's resource activity book is packed with more than 100 reproducible writing lessons designed to help students improve their language skills by simultaneously developing fluency and literacy.

The English Town

Author : Mark Girouard
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300063219
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book The English Town written by Mark Girouard and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By looking at England's cathedral towns, Regency spas and industrial cities, and at their market squares, docks, council chambers and assembly rooms, the author traces the development of English towns through the centuries.

Life in the English Country House

Author : Mark Girouard
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300058703
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Life in the English Country House written by Mark Girouard and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's Slade lectures given at Oxford University in 1975-76.

Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean

Author : Jenny Shaw
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820346349
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean written by Jenny Shaw and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set along both the physical and social margins of the British Empire in the second half of the seventeenth century, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean explores the construction of difference through the everyday life of colonial subjects. Jenny Shaw examines how marginalized colonial subjects--Irish and Africans--contributed to these processes. By emphasizing their everyday experiences Shaw makes clear that each group persisted in its own cultural practices; Irish and Africans also worked within--and challenged--the limits of the colonial regime. Shaw's research demonstrates the extent to which hierarchies were in flux in the early modern Caribbean, allowing even an outcast servant to rise to the position of island planter, and underscores the fallacy that racial categories of black and white were the sole arbiters of difference in the early English Caribbean. The everyday lives of Irish and Africans are obscured by sources constructed by elites. Through her research, Jenny Shaw overcomes the constraints such sources impose by pushing methodological boundaries to fill in the gaps, silences, and absences that dominate the historical record. By examining legal statutes, census material, plantation records, travel narratives, depositions, interrogations, and official colonial correspondence, as much for what they omit as for what they include, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean uncovers perspectives that would otherwise remain obscured. This book encourages readers to rethink the boundaries of historical research and writing and to think more expansively about questions of race and difference in English slave societies.

The Wordhord

Author : Hana Videen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069123275X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Wordhord written by Hana Videen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English—and what they reveal about the lives of the earliest English speakers Old English is the language you think you know until you actually hear or see it. Unlike Shakespearean English or even Chaucer’s Middle English, Old English—the language of Beowulf—defies comprehension by untrained modern readers. Used throughout much of Britain more than a thousand years ago, it is rich with words that haven’t changed (like word), others that are unrecognizable (such as neorxnawang, or paradise), and some that are mystifying even in translation (gafol-fisc, or tax-fish). In this delightful book, Hana Videen gathers a glorious trove of these gems and uses them to illuminate the lives of the earliest English speakers. We discover a world where choking on a bit of bread might prove your guilt, where fiend-ship was as likely as friendship, and where you might grow up to be a laughter-smith. The Wordhord takes readers on a journey through Old English words and customs related to practical daily activities (eating, drinking, learning, working); relationships and entertainment; health and the body, mind, and soul; the natural world (animals, plants, and weather); locations and travel (the source of some of the most evocative words in Old English); mortality, religion, and fate; and the imagination and storytelling. Each chapter ends with its own “wordhord”—a list of its Old English terms, with definitions and pronunciations. Entertaining and enlightening, The Wordhord reveals the magical roots of the language you’re reading right now: you’ll never look at—or speak—English in the same way again.

The Game of Our Lives

Author : David Goldblatt
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568585071
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book The Game of Our Lives written by David Goldblatt and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Game of Our Lives is a masterly portrait of soccer and contemporary Britain. Soccer in the United Kingdom has evolved from a jaded, working-class tradition to a sport at the heart of popular culture, from an economic mess to a booming entertainment industry that has conquered the world. The changes in the game, David Goldblatt shows, uncannily mirror the evolution of British society. In the 1980s, soccer was described as a slum game played by slum people in slum stadiums. Such was the transformation over the following twenty-five years that novelists, politicians, poets, and bankers were all declaring their footballing loyalties. At one point, the Palace let it be known that the queen -- like her mother, Prince Harry, the chief rabbi, and the archbishop of Canterbury -- was an Arsenal fan. Soccer permeated the national life like little else, an atavistic survivor decked out in New Britain flash, a social democratic game in a cutthroat, profit-driven world. From the goals, to the players, to the managers, to the money, Goldblatt describes how the English Premier League (EPL) was forged in Margaret Thatcher's Britain by an alliance of the big clubs -- Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur -- the Football Association, and Rupert Murdoch's Sky TV. Goldblatt argues that no social phenomenon traces the momentous economic, social, and political changes of post-Thatcherite Britain in a more illuminating manner than soccer, and The Game of Our Lives provides the definitive social history of the EPL -- the most popular soccer league in the world.

An English Year

Author : Tania McCartney
Publisher : EK Books
ISBN 13 : 9781921966866
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book An English Year written by Tania McCartney and published by EK Books. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Aman, Victoria, Amelia, Tandi and George - English children representing a multicultural blend of culture and race that typifies our beautiful country. They will take you through a year in the life of English kids, from celebrations to traditions to events, to our everyday way of life and the little things that make childhood so memorable. They are our English childhood. An English Year is a picture book bursting with national pride. It is a snapshot of who we are as a nation, blending our modern-day culture and lifestyle with past traditions and strong heritage. Its pages feature meandering text, dates and gorgeous illustrations showcasing our five English children at play, at school, at home, and enjoying the sights and sites of England - from the northern moors and breathtaking Lake District, to our pebbly seasides, bustling cities and historical country towns.

The Private Lives of English Words

Author : Louis G. Heller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780710200068
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Private Lives of English Words written by Louis G. Heller and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1984 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Our Marvelous Native Tongue

Author : Robert Claiborne
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Our Marvelous Native Tongue written by Robert Claiborne and published by Crown. This book was released on 1983 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts a history of the English language from its Indo-European origins to the present.

Broken English

Author : Marita A. Hansen
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781534949997
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Broken English written by Marita A. Hansen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For me, the name Dante conjured up two images. The first was the epic depictions of Hell from Dante's Inferno, with people burning for their sins. The second image was a sexual depiction. I don't know where it came from, but as far back as I can remember, I had always associated the name Dante with a beautiful and sexy man. I'd imagined a dark-haired, dark-eyed, gorgeous lothario, the type who could capture a woman's heart with just one look. Dante was the Fabio of my generation, the heartthrob that got women's hearts beating fast, made us want this man to rip our clothes off and to throw us onto the bed. Little did I know that the Dante that walked into my life was very different from the one I'd imagined. Oh, he was dark-haired, dark-eyed, gorgeous, even a lothario ... just ... he wasn't a man. He was a fifteen-year-old boy who was going to send me to the Hell his namesake had written about. And I was his teacher.

Brief Lives of the English Monarchs

Author : Carolly Erickson
Publisher : Constable & Robinson
ISBN 13 : 9781845295035
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Brief Lives of the English Monarchs written by Carolly Erickson and published by Constable & Robinson. This book was released on 2007 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains wonderfully illuminating portraits of each English monarch from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II.

Lives of the English saints [ed. by J. H. Newman

Author : English saints
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Lives of the English saints [ed. by J. H. Newman written by English saints and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: