Select elegies, ed. with intr., notes and appendices by J.P. Postgate
Author : Sextus Propertius
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Page : 488 pages
File Size : 35,34 MB
Release : 1885
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Author : Sextus Propertius
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Page : 488 pages
File Size : 35,34 MB
Release : 1885
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Author : David Bates Tower
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Page : 152 pages
File Size : 25,34 MB
Release : 1853
Category : English language
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Author : Great Britain. Committee on Education
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Page : 432 pages
File Size : 39,79 MB
Release : 1846
Category : Education
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Author : Great Britain. Education Department
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Page : 960 pages
File Size : 50,88 MB
Release : 1850
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Author : Jeremiah (the prophet)
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Page : 190 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 1878
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Author : Nehemiah (the prophet)
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Page : 140 pages
File Size : 28,62 MB
Release : 1878
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Author : Susan Levine
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 28,78 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252091728
Edgar Allan Poe’s reputation as an enduring and influential American literary critic rests mainly upon the pieces in this edition. Editors Stuart Levine and Susan F. Levine provide reading texts, detailed explanatory footnotes, variant readings, and introductions to show context. They also face frankly the contradictions in Poe’s critical dicta. Poetry is for pleasure, not truth, Poe says, but argues that poetic inspiration leads to truth. Great works, Poe says, result from studied calculation, but also from irrational, supernal sources. Both biting critic and doughty defender of American artistic achievement, Poe was contemptuous of democratic art, except when he manned the barricades in its defense. Critical Theory highlights such conflicting ideas and suggests why they are present. This edition shows that what is consistent in Poe is not any single theory. Rather, always present are wit, playfulness, concern for the strong effect, a bin of recyclable allusions, anecdotes and quotations, and a writer’s discipline. His writing on theory is of a piece with his fiction, poetry, and journalism. The Levines explain how these pieces also tie in tightly to the social, political, economic, and technological history of the world in which Poe lived.
Author : William Thomas Lowndes
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Page : 352 pages
File Size : 13,2 MB
Release : 1861
Category : English literature
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Author : Princeton University. Library
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Page : 754 pages
File Size : 27,15 MB
Release : 1921
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Author : John Collinson Nesfield
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Page : 514 pages
File Size : 32,8 MB
Release : 1916
Category : English language
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The plan that has been followed in preparing this book is to carry the student's mind gradually forward from the more easy to the less easy, from the better known to the unknown. The present book is an adaptation of a manual prepared by the same author in India, where English is studied with extraordinary keenness, in an attempt to find the best means of teaching it. It is best to assume that the average student does not know very much to start with, and that every student must be well versed in the principles of modern English, before he can be qualified to begin the much more difficult task of tracing these to their sources. -- from the preface.