A Study Guide for Robert Herrick's "The Night Piece: To Julia"


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A Study Guide for Robert Herrick's "The Night Piece: To Julia," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.




The Night Piece


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A career-spanning collection of stories from the author of Fifteen Dogs, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and Canada Reads. Vivid, profound, moving, and with moments of sly humour, the stories in The Night Piece reveal worlds both familiar and deeply strange. Drawing from Alexis's acclaimed debut collection, Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa, and the highly original Beauty and Sadness, and including previously uncollected stories, here is the surreal and brilliant short fiction of André Alexis--one of Canada's most extraordinary writers. With an Afterword by Madeleine Thien













Arthur Foote


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Gathers all the available information on Arthur Foote (1853-1937), one of the most important American composers who worked creatively in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With bibliography and musical examples.




Night Pieces


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A collection of 11 short stories from award-winning writer Gary Reed. Pulled from various sources over his career writing for Caliber Comics, Transfuzion, Image, and IDW Publishing - these are standalone short tales. He is joined by some of today's popular comic artists to bring his tales of horror, suspense, often times with a literary bent, to life for the reader. "First and foremost, he is a storyteller...Gary loves to set stories against a historical background or with a character from literature and put his own unique and clever spin on them." - Newsarama. "Reed is one of the most underrated comic writers around. He has the ability to stay several steps ahead of the reader and never fails to deliver several shocks and surprises." - The Comics Review.







Rembrandt's Faith: Church and Temple in the Dutch Golden Age


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"An art historical study of Rembrandt's use of religious imagery, arranged by subject matter. Demonstrates the new ideas the artist brought to his interpretations of the Jerusalem Temple and the apostolate church, as he explored the relationship between Jewish and Christian revelation in biblical history"--Provided by publisher.