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Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571113392
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (133 download)
Download or read book The Faber Popular Reciter written by Kingsley Amis and published by . This book was released on 1978-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Felicia Hemans
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 9781551111377
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Prose and Letters written by Felicia Hemans and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2002-01-22 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felicia Hemans was the most widely read woman poet in the nineteenth-century English-speaking world. Broadview’s edition shows why she was one of the few standard poets to be found in middle-class homes on both sides of the Atlantic, despite being routinely disparaged as a “merely” feminine poet. Included here is poetry representative of her entire career, from often-anthologized works, such as “The Homes of England” and “Casabianca,” to several long poems in their entirety, such as “The Forest Sanctuary.” Also included are selections of her prose and letters, a comprehensive introduction, and selections of views and reviews showing her changing and controversial place in culture into the twentieth century. All selections are edited, annotated, and introduced.
Author : William A. Katz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231101042
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Columbia Granger's Guide to Poetry Anthologies written by William A. Katz and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reference guide to poetry anthologies with descriptions and evaluations of each anthology.
Author : Zachary Leader
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199558256
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Movement Reconsidered written by Zachary Leader and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Movement was the preeminent poetical grouping of post-war Britain. This collection of original essays by distinguished poets, critics, and scholars from Britain and America provides new accounts not only of the best-known of Movement writers - Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Thom Gunn and Donald Davie - but of less-familiar contemporaries.
Author : Zachary Leader
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307496457
Total Pages : 1010 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Life of Kingsley Amis written by Zachary Leader and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the authorized, definitive biography of one of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century literature, renowned for his blistering intelligence, savage wit and belligerent fierceness of opinion: Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation–having first achieved prominence with the publication of Lucky Jim in 1954 and as one of the Angry Young Men–but also a dominant figure in post—World War II British writing as novelist, poet, critic and polemicist. In The Life of Kingsley Amis, Zachary Leader, acclaimed editor of The Letters of Kingsley Amis, draws not only on unpublished works and correspondence but also on interviews with a wide range of Amis’s friends, relatives, fellow writers, students and colleagues, many of whom have never spoken out before. The result is a compulsively readable account of Amis’s childhood, school days and life as a student at Oxford, teacher, critic, political and cultural commentator, professional author, husband, father and lover. Even as he makes the case for Amis’s cultural centrality–at his death Time magazine claimed that “the British decades between 1955 and 1995 should in fairness be called ‘the Amis era’”–Leader explores the writer’s phobias, self-doubts and ambitions; the controversies in which he was embroiled; and the role that drink played in a life bedeviled by erotic entanglements, domestic turbulence and personal disaster. Dazzling for its thoroughness, psychological acuity and elegant style, The Life of Kingsley Amis is exemplary: literary biography at its very best.
Author : Michael Dirda
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393324891
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Readings written by Michael Dirda and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intimate, humorous, and insightful, Readings is a collection of classic essays and reviews by Michael Dirda, book critic of the Washington Post and winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. From a first reading of Beckett and Faulkner at the feet of an inspirational high-school English teacher to a meeting of the P. G. Wodehouse Society, from an obsession with Nabokov's Lolita to the discovery of the Japanese epic The Tale of Genji, these essays chronicle a lifetime of literary enjoyment.
Author : Merritt Moseley
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780872498617
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (986 download)
Download or read book Understanding Kingsley Amis written by Merritt Moseley and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edith P. Hazen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231075466
Total Pages : 1172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (754 download)
Download or read book The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations written by Edith P. Hazen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the "hair-of-the-dog" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect ones problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, "a grand excavation of drug myth." Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is a story of scientific and artistic achievement, war and greed, empires and religions, and lessons for the future. Ciaran Regan looks at each class of drugs, describing the historical evolution of their use, explaining how they work within the brain's neurophysiology, and outlining the basic pharmacology of those substances. From a consideration of the effect of stimulants, such as caffeine and nicotine, and the reasons and consequences of their sudden popularity in the seventeenth century, the book moves to a discussion of more modern stimulants, such as cocaine and ecstasy. In addition, Regan explains how we process memory, the nature of thought disorders, and therapies for treating depression and schizophrenia. Regan then considers psychedelic drugs and their perceived mystical properties and traces the history of placebos to ancient civilizations. Finally, Intoxicating Minds considers the physical consequences of our co-evolution with drugs -- how they have altered our very being -- and offers a glimpse of the brave new world of drug therapies.
Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226677101
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (771 download)
Download or read book Miscellaneous Verdicts written by Anthony Powell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992-07 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miscellaneous Verdicts represents the best of Anthony Powell's critical writing over a period of four decades. Drawn from his regular reviews for the Daily Telegraph, from his occasional humorous pieces for Punch, and from his more sustained pieces of critical and anecdotal writing on writers, this collection is as witty, fresh, surprising, and entertaining as one would expect from the author of Dance to the Music of Time. Powell begins with a section on the British, exploring his fascination both with genealogy and with figures like John Aubrey, and writing in depth about writers like Kipling, Conrad, and Hardy. The second section, on America, also opens with discussions of family trees (in this case presidential ones) and includes pieces on Henry James, James Thurber, American booksellers in Paris, Hemingway, and Dashiell Hammett. Personal encounters, and absorbing incidents from the lives of his subjects, frequently fill these pages—as they do even more in the section on Powell's contemporaries—Connolly, Orwell, Graham Greene, and others. Finally, and aptly, the book closes with a section on Proust and matters Proustian, including a marvellous essay on what is eaten and drunk, and by whom, in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. "An urbane book, quietly erudite, very sensible, highly civilized, remarkably useful."—Anthony Burgess, Observer "An acute intelligence and fastidious sense of humor make [Powell] the funniest and most profound living writer of the English language."—Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Sunday Telegraph Anthony Powell was born in London in 1905. He is the author of seven novels, a biography of John Aubrey, two plays, a collection of memoirs, and the twelve-volume novel sequence Dance to the Music of Time.
Author : Susan J. Wolfson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140082401X
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Felicia Hemans written by Susan J. Wolfson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first standard edition of the writings of Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), this volume marks a revival of interest in, and a new critical appreciation of, one of the most important literary figures of the early nineteenth century. A best-selling poet in England and America, Felicia Hemans was regarded as leading female poet in her day, celebrated as the epitome of national "feminine" values. However, this same narrow perception of her work eventually relegated Hemans to an obscurity lightened occasionally by parody and a sentimental enthusiasm for poems such as "The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers" and "Casabianca." Only now is Hemans's work being rediscovered and reconsidered--for the complexity of its social and political vision, but also for its sounding of dissonances in nineteenth-century cultural ideals, and for its recasting of the traditional canon of male "Romantics." Offering readers a firsthand acquaintance with the remarkable range of Hemans's writing, this volume includes five major works in their entirety, along with a much-admired aggregate, Records of Woman. Hemans's letters, many published here for the first time, reflect her views of her contemporaries, her work, her negotiations with publishers, and her emerging celebrity, while reviews and letters from others--including Lord Byron, Walter Scott, and the Wordsworths--tell the story of Hemans's reception in her time. An introduction by editor Susan Wolfson puts these writings, as well as Hemans's life and work, into much-needed perspective for the contemporary reader.
Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1526640171
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Everyday Drinking written by Kingsley Amis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kingsley Amis was one of the great masters of comic prose, and no subject was dearer to him than the art and practice of imbibing. This new volume brings together the best of his three out-of-print works on the subject: Kingsley Amis in Drink, Everyday Drinking and How's Your Glass? In one handsome package, the book covers a full shelf of the master's riotous and erudite thoughts on the drinking arts: Along with a series of well-tested recipes (including a cocktail called the Lucky Jim) are Amis's musings on The Hangover, The Boozing Man's Diet, The Mean Sod's Guide, and (presumably as a matter of speculation) How Not to Get Drunk - all leavened with fun quizzes on the making and drinking of alcohol all over the world. Mixing practical know-how and hilarious opinionation, this is a delightful cocktail of wry humour and distilled knowledge, served by one of our great gimlet wits.
Author : Mrs. Hemans
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691050294
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Felicia Hemans written by Mrs. Hemans and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first standard edition of the writings of Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), this volume marks a revival of interest in, and a new critical appreciation of, one of the most important literary figures of the early nineteenth century. A best-selling poet in England and America, Felicia Hemans was regarded as leading female poet in her day, celebrated as the epitome of national "feminine" values. However, this same narrow perception of her work eventually relegated Hemans to an obscurity lightened occasionally by parody and a sentimental enthusiasm for poems such as "The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers" and "Casabianca." Only now is Hemans's work being rediscovered and reconsidered--for the complexity of its social and political vision, but also for its sounding of dissonances in nineteenth-century cultural ideals, and for its recasting of the traditional canon of male "Romantics." Offering readers a firsthand acquaintance with the remarkable range of Hemans's writing, this volume includes five major works in their entirety, along with a much-admired aggregate, Records of Woman. Hemans's letters, many published here for the first time, reflect her views of her contemporaries, her work, her negotiations with publishers, and her emerging celebrity, while reviews and letters from others--including Lord Byron, Walter Scott, and the Wordsworths--tell the story of Hemans's reception in her time. An introduction by editor Susan Wolfson puts these writings, as well as Hemans's life and work, into much-needed perspective for the contemporary reader.
Author : R. Grant
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230599303
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Imagining The Real written by R. Grant and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout its ten related essays, Imagining the Real contrasts our abstract imaginings about the human world with the imaginative insights provided by art and experience. It questions, variously, the relevance of game theory and sociobiology to politics; the supposed intrinsic values of liberal freedom, cultural change, and democratic action; and the claims of Marxism, deconstruction and 'Theory' generally to be non-ideological. More positively, it reinterprets fiction as a specific invitation to imagine, and celebrates Shakespeare, L.H. Myers and Beckett as truly critical, because truly imaginative, exponents of ideas.
Author : Jerome J. McGann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198184782
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)
Download or read book The Poetics of Sensibility written by Jerome J. McGann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetics of Sensibility takes as its prime aim the neglected poetry, principally by women, which qualifies as either poetry of sensibility or poetry of sentiment.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book British Book News written by and published by . This book was released on 1979-07 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466873760
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The King's English written by Kingsley Amis and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Parthian shot from one of the most important figures in post-war British fiction, The King's English is the late Kingsley Amis's last word on the state of the language. More frolicsome than Fowler's Modern Usage, lighter than the Oxford English Dictionary, and brimming with the strong opinions and razor-sharp wit that made Amis so popular--and so controversial--The King's English is a must for fans and language purists.
Author : Mervyn Morris
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9766371741
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (663 download)
Download or read book Making West Indian Literature written by Mervyn Morris and published by Ian Randle Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "West Indian Literature, as a body of work, is a fairly recent phenomenon; and literary criticism has not always acknowledged the diversity of approaches to writing effectively. In Making West Indian Literature poet and critic Mervyn Morris explores examples of West Indian creativity shaping a range of responses to experience, which often includes colonial traces. Appreciating various kinds of making and a number of West Indian makers, these engaging essays and interviews display a recurrent interest in the processes of composition. Some of the prices highlight writer-performers who have not often been examined. This very readable book, often personal in tone, makes a distinctive contribution to the knowledge and understanding of West Indian Literature. "
