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Author : Sabine Baring-Gould
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Vicar of Morwenstow written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Piers Brendon
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780712667722
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (677 download)
Download or read book Hawker of Morwenstow written by Piers Brendon and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-04-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illuminating biography of Robert Stephen Hawker (1803-75) unravels fully the famous Cornish parson-poet's rich personality. Drawing on a mass of unpublished material, Piers Brendon re-creates one of the most bizarre of Victorian lives, revealing the mixture of truth, over-simplification and falsehood in the legend which has built up around him. The popular account depicts Hawker as a youth of wild high spirits who delighted in hoaxes and practical jokes. As an Oxford undergraduate he won the Newdigate Poetry Prize and married his rich 41-year-old godmother. In 1834 he became vicar of Morwenstow and spent the rest of his life in his desolate country parish on the storm-swept coast of north Cornwall. He was a charitable, hard-working Anglo-Catholic but, owing to the remoteness of his position and lack of sympathy from his parishioners, his true genius became warped and he succumbed to wayward eccentricity. His dress was, to say the least, unorthodox, and he became obsessed with antiquarian lore, lending a haunting reality to the arcane superstitions which he cultivated. He entertained no doubt whatever about the active agency of demons and angels, ghosts and brownies. He talked to birds, invited his nine cats into church and excommunicated one of them when it caught a mouse on Sunday. Out of the timbers of wrecked ships he built a hut, a forbidding sanctuary perched on the high cliff-edge, where he invoked mystic visions and composed romantic poetry. Piers Brendon here rescues Hawker from legend, and his fascinating book substitutes character for caricature. An even more interesting and idiosyncratic Hawker emerges, scarred and moulded by the stark isolation of his hostile seaboard benefice, a man of remarkable insight and compassion, who submitted in strange ways to his calling, and who, it turns out, proves to have been a true prophet in his yearning exclamation: 'what a life mine would be if it were all written and published in a book.'
Author : Sabine Baring-Gould
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Vicar of Morwenstow written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1786074427
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)
Download or read book A Field Guide to the English Clergy written by The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Ridiculously enjoyable’ Tom Holland A Book of the Year for The Times, Mail on Sunday and BBC History Magazine The ‘Mermaid of Morwenstow’ excommunicated a cat for mousing on a Sunday. When he was late for a service, Bishop Lancelot Fleming commandeered a Navy helicopter. ‘Mad Jack’ swapped his surplice for leopard skin and insisted on being carried around in a coffin. And then there was the man who, like Noah’s evil twin, tried to eat one of each of God’s creatures… In spite of all this they saw the church as their true calling. These portraits reveal the Anglican church in all its colourful madness.
Author : R.S. Hawker
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3375021976
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Cornish Ballads and other Poems written by R.S. Hawker and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-05-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Author : Katherine Stansfield
Publisher : Allison & Busby Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0749023872
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Mermaid's Call written by Katherine Stansfield and published by Allison & Busby Ltd. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cornwall, 1845. Shilly has always felt a connection to happenings that are not of this world, a talent that has proved invaluable when investigating dark deeds with master of disguise, Anna Drake. The women opened a detective agency with help from their newest member and investor, Mathilda, but six long months have passed without a single case to solve and tensions are growing. It is almost a relief when a man is found dead along the Morwenstow coast and the agency is sought out to investigate. There are suspicions that wreckers plague the coast, luring ships to their ruin with false lights - though nothing has ever been proved. Yet with the local talk of sirens calling victims to the sea to meet their end, could something other-worldly be responsible for the man's death?
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Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Churchman written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Stephen Hawker
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781018493527
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (935 download)
Download or read book Footprints Of Former Men In Far Cornwall written by Robert Stephen Hawker and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Tim Stanley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472974131
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Whatever Happened to Tradition? written by Tim Stanley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best days are behind us. The central argument of this book is that we can only face the future with hope if we have a proper sense of tradition – political, social and religious. We ignore our past at our peril. The problem, argues Tim Stanley, is that the Western tradition is anti-tradition, that we have a habit of discarding old ways and old knowledge, leaving us uncertain how to act or, even, of who we really are. In this wide-ranging book, we see how tradition can be both beautiful and useful, from the deserts of Australia to the court of nineteenth-century Japan. Some of the concepts defended here are highly controversial in the modern West: authority, nostalgia, rejection of self and the hunt for spiritual transcendence. We'll even meet a tribe who dress up their dead relatives and invite them to tea. Stanley illustrates how apparently eccentric yet universal principles can nurture the individual from birth to death, plugging them into the wider community, and creating a bond between generations. He also demonstrates that tradition, far from being pretentious or rigid, survives through clever adaptation, that it can be surprisingly egalitarian. The good news, he argues, is that it can also be rebuilt. It's been done before. The process is fraught with danger, but the ultimate prize of rediscovering tradition is self-knowledge and freedom.
Author : S. Baring-Gould
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752407999
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Life of Robert Stephen Hawker written by S. Baring-Gould and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Life of Robert Stephen Hawker by S. Baring-Gould
Author : D.Z. Phillips
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0915138832
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (151 download)
Download or read book R.S. Thomas: Poet of the Hidden God written by D.Z. Phillips and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is one philosopher's response to the poetry of R. S. Thomas. It examines the poet's struggle with the possibilities of sense in religion: R. S. Thomas has described his poetry as an obsession with the possibility of having 'conversations or linguistic confrontations with ultimate reality'. Some attempts at giving meaning to religious belief cannot withstand the assaults of criticism. In R. S. Thomas's verse, however, there emerges a hard-won celebration of the worship of a hidden God; a rare achievement in contemporary poetry. In plotting the course of the development of the poetry, the book brings out its many similarities with the thrusts and counter-thrusts of argument in the philosophy of religion in the second half of the twentieth century. The book should be of interest not only to admirers of R. S. Thomas, but to philosophers, theologians, students of literature, and to anyone concerned with questions concerning the sense or senselessness of religious belief.
Author : Charles Edward Byles
Publisher : London ; New York : J. Lane ; Bodley Head
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Life and Letters of R. S. Hawker written by Charles Edward Byles and published by London ; New York : J. Lane ; Bodley Head. This book was released on 1905 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Bookman written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Henry Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Cornish Saints & Sinners written by J. Henry Harris and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Robert Chope
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Carols for Use in Church During Christmas and Epiphany written by Richard Robert Chope and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)
Download or read book T.P.'s Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret Florence Burrows
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Robert Stephen Hawker written by Margaret Florence Burrows and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
