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Author : Edmund Blunden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Midnight Skaters written by Edmund Blunden and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund Blunden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (681 download)
Download or read book The Midnight Skaters written by Edmund Blunden and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund Blunden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (463 download)
Download or read book The Midnight Skaters. Poems for Young Readers Chosen and Introduced by C. Day Lewis. Illustrations by David Gentleman written by Edmund Blunden and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674025229
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book written by and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund Blunden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198716613
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Undertones of War written by Edmund Blunden and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) was one of the youngest of the war poets, enlisting straight from school to find himself in some of the Western Front's most notorious hot-spots. His prose memoir, written in a rich, allusive vein, full of anecdote and human interest, is unique for its quietauthority and for the potency of its dream-like narrative. Once we accept the archaic conventions and catch the tone - which can be by turns horrifying or hilarious - Undertones of War gradually reveals itself as a masterpiece. It is clear why it has remained in print since it first appeared in1928.This new edition not only offers the original unrevised version of the prose narrative, written at white heat when Blunden was teaching in Japan and had no access to his notes, but provides a great deal of supplementary material never before gathered together. Blunden's "Preliminary" expresses thelifelong compulsion he felt "to go over the ground again" and for half a century he prepared new prefaces, added annotations. All those prefaces and a wide selection of his commentaries are included here - marginalia from friends' first editions, remarks in letters, extracts from later essays, and asubstantial part of his war diary. John Greening has provided a scholarly introduction discussing the bibliographical and historical background, and brings his poet's eye to a much expanded (and more representative) selection of Blunden's war poetry. For the first time we can see the poet Blundenas the major figure he was.Blunden had always hoped for a properly illustrated edition of the work, and kept a folder full of possible pictures. The editor, with the Blunden family's help, has selected some of the best of them to include in this new edition.
Author : Roger McGough
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014194529X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book All the Best written by Roger McGough and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful selection of over 100 of Roger's own best-loved poems from his vast Puffin catalogue of poetry collections. Lots of favourites and some lesser known surprises, too. Packed with fabulous Lydia Monks illustrations throughout.
Author : Fran Doel
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752497316
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The Hop Bin written by Fran Doel and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 400 years Kent and East Sussex were vividly and visibly associated with the cultivation of hops. Fran and Geoff Doel have evoked this bygone world of hopping by gathering together a wide range of social and literary accounts, poems and songs from the Tudor period to the present day, each with a contextual introduction. The selection illustrates both the 'rose-tinted' image and the harsher reality of a distinctive aspect of rural life in the south east.
Author : Griff Rhys Jones
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446417832
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)
Download or read book The Nation's Favourite written by Griff Rhys Jones and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lovely book of poetry brings together over 100 of the most celebrated and cherished poems of the 20th century. Including poets as diverse as John Betjeman and Ted Hughes, Siegfried Sassoon and Allan Ahlberg, and subjects from all avenues of life - war, family life, love, death, religion, the countryside, animals and comedy - the whole breadth of the nation's life during the 20th century is encapsulated here. Compiled and edited by Griff Rhys Jones as part of the successful The Nations Favourite Poems series, this book brings together the wealth of new and innovative poetry styles that flourished in the 20th Century.
Author : Margaret Bottrall
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Collected English Verse written by Margaret Bottrall and published by Center for the Study of Language (CSLI). This book was released on 1946 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Murray G. Phillips
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791482502
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Deconstructing Sport History written by Murray G. Phillips and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking collection challenges the accepted principles and practices of sport history and encourages sport historians to be more adventurous in their representations of the sporting past in the present. Encompassing a wide range of critical approaches, leading international sport historians reflect on theory, practice, and the future of sport history. They survey the field of sport history since its inception, examine the principles that have governed the production of knowledge in sport history, and address the central concerns raised by the postmodern challenge to history. Sharing a common desire to critique contemporary practices in sport history, the contributors raise the level of critical analysis of the production of historical knowledge, provide examples of approaches by those who have struggled with or adapted to the postmodern challenge, and open up new avenues for future sport historians to follow.
Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504054318
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book A World of My Own written by Graham Greene and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British author shares the “strange . . . inner layers of his playful, guilty imagination” in this glimpse into a brilliant novelist’s subconscious (The New York Times). Culled from nearly eight hundred pages of the author’s “dream diaries” kept between 1965 and 1989, this singular journal reveals “the feverish inner life of an intensely private man, providing an uncanny mirror-image of [his] novelistic obsessions, insecurities, and moral preoccupations” (Publishers Weekly). In what Greene calls My Own World—as opposed to the Common World of shared reality—he accompanies Henry James on a disagreeable riverboat trip to Bogota, is caught in a guerilla crossfire with Evelyn Waugh and W. H. Auden, strolls in the Vatican garden with Pope John Paul II who’s doling out Perugina chocolates like hosts, offers refuge to a suicidal Charlie Chaplin, and stages a disastrous play in blank verse for Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. He also shares his headspace with Goebbels, Castro, Cocteau, Queen Elizabeth, D. H. Lawrence, and talking kittens. And the landscape is just as wide: from Nazi Germany to Haiti to West Africa to Bethlehem 1 AD and to Sweden where he seeks treatment for leprosy. Greene is a criminal, spy, lover, assassin, witness, and writer. Encompassing life, death, war, feuds, and career, and alternately absurdist, frightening, funny, and revealing, these fertile imaginings—many of which found their way into Greene’s fiction—comprise nothing less than “an alternate autobiography . . . a uniquely candid self-portrait” of one of the giants of English literature (Kirkus Reviews).
Author : Sumie Okada
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349094676
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Edmund Blunden and Japan written by Sumie Okada and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-06-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Jenkins
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674296818
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Island written by Nicholas Jenkins and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden’s early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development as well as on his shifting beliefs about political belonging in interwar England. From his first poems in 1922 to the publication of his landmark collection On This Island in the mid-1930s, W. H. Auden wrestled with the meaning of Englishness. His early works are prized for their psychological depth, yet Nicholas Jenkins argues that they are political poems as well, illuminating Auden’s intuitions about a key aspect of modern experience: national identity. Two historical forces, in particular, haunted the poet: the catastrophe of World War I and the subsequent “rediscovery” of England’s rural landscapes by artists and intellectuals. The Island presents a new picture of Auden, the poet and the man, as he explored a genteel, lyrical form of nationalism during these years. His poems reflect on a world in ruins, while cultivating visions of England as a beautiful—if morally compromised—haven. They also reflect aspects of Auden’s personal search for belonging—from his complex relationship with his father, to his quest for literary mentors, to his negotiation of the codes that structured gay life. Yet as Europe veered toward a second immolation, Auden began to realize that poetic myths centered on English identity held little potential. He left the country in 1936 for what became an almost lifelong expatriation, convinced that his role as the voice of Englishness had become an empty one. Reexamining one of the twentieth century’s most moving and controversial poets, The Island is a fresh account of his early works and a striking parable about the politics of modernism. Auden’s preoccupations with the vicissitudes of war, the trials of love, and the problems of identity are of their time. Yet they still resonate profoundly today.
Author : Chris Baldick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198183100
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (981 download)
Download or read book The Modern Movement written by Chris Baldick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new survey of literature in England during the first half of the twentieth century, Chris Baldick places modernist with non-modernist writings, high art with low entertainment. The Modern Movement ranges broadly covering psychological novels, war poems, detective stories, satires, children's books, and other literary forms evolving in response to the new anxieties and exhilarations of twentieth-century life.
Author : Michael Harrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192761903
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (619 download)
Download or read book One Hundred Years of Poetry for Children written by Michael Harrison and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of poetry covering a wide range of subjects, themes, and emotions.
Author : John Bartlett
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 031625018X
Total Pages : 5216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Bartlett's Familiar Quotations written by John Bartlett and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 5216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 150 years after its original publication, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations has been completely revised and updated for its eighteenth edition. Bartlett's showcases a sweeping survey of world history, from the times of ancient Egyptians to present day. New authors include Warren Buffett, the Dalai Lama, Bill Gates, David Foster Wallace, Emily Post, Steve Jobs, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Krugman, Hunter S. Thompson, Jon Stewart, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Barack Obama, Che Guevara, Randy Pausch, Desmond Tutu, Julia Child, Fran Leibowitz, Harper Lee, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Patti Smith, William F. Buckley, and Robert F. Kennedy. In the classic Bartlett's tradition, the book offers readers and scholars alike a vast, stunning representation of those words that have influenced and molded our language and culture.
Author : Suman Gupta
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230298117
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Imagining Iraq written by Suman Gupta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the run-up to, during and after the invasion of Iraq a large number of literary texts addressing that context were produced, circulated and viewed as taking a position for or against the invasion, or contributing political insights. This book provides an in-depth survey of such texts to examine what they reveal about the condition of literature.
