Whittier's Relation to German Life and Thought
Author : Iola Kay Eastburn
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 12,60 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Germans
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Author : Iola Kay Eastburn
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 12,60 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Germans
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Author : Iola Kay Eastburn
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 21,19 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Germans
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Author : Frederick Franklin Schrader
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 27,96 MB
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1473388961
How many of these same descendants know that to this people belong, by ancestry more or less remote, some of the first scientific men of America, such as the Mühlenbergs, Melsheimer, the "father of American entomology"; Leidy and Gross, the great surgeon; Herkimer, the hero of Oriskany; "Molly Pitcher," the heroine of Monmouth; Post, the Indian missionary, to whom Parkman himself pays a noble tribute; Heckewalder, the Moravian lexicographer of the speech of the Delawares; Armistead, the defender of Fort McHenry in the war of 1812, whose flag, "still there," inspired the Star Spangled Banner; Barbara Frietchie, and General Custer? Surely, this people merit that some slight account be drawn from the mostly unknown books and documents where they have for years reposed, known only to the antiquarians and often veiled from English readers by the German language, in which many of the best and most valuable are written, and given to the English-speaking world of America.
Author : Percy Holmes Boynton
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Page : 958 pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 1936
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : Max John Herzberg
Publisher : New York, Crowell
Page : 1316 pages
File Size : 36,9 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
"Incorporates authors' name, biographies, and titles of their works in one alphabetical listing. Plot summaries also included. Covers U.S. and Canadian literature."--
Author : John Albert Pollard
Publisher :
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 27,29 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Gregory James
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 28,78 MB
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0857736191
The nineteenth century was a time of 'movements' - political, social, moral reform causes - which drew on the energies of men and women across Britain. This book studies radical reform at the margins of early Victorian society, focusing on decades of particular social, political and technological ferment: when foreign and British promoters of extravagant technologically assisted utopias could attract many hundreds of supporters of limited means, persuaded to escape grim conditions by emigration to South America; when pioneers of vegetarianism joined the ranks of the temperance movement; and when working-class Chartists, reviving a struggle for political reform, seemed to threaten the State for a brief moment in April 1848. Through the forgotten figure of James Elmslie Duncan, 'shabby genteel' poet and self-proclaimed 'Apostle of the Messiahdom', The Poetry and the Politics considers themes including poetry's place in radical culture, the response of pantomime to the Chartist challenge to law and order, and associations between madness and revolution.Duncan became a promoter of the technological fantasies of John Adolphus Etzler, a poet of science who prophesied a future free from drudgery, through machinery powered by natural forces. Etzler dreamed of crystal palaces: Duncan's public freedom was to end dramatically in 1851 just as a real crystal palace opened to an astonished world. In addition to Duncan, James Gregory also introduces a cast of other poets, earnest reformers and agitators, such as William Thom the weaver poet of Inverury, whose metropolitan feting would end in tragedy; John Goodwyn Barmby, bearded Pontiffarch of the Communist Church; a lunatic 'Invisible Poet' of Cremorne pleasure gardens; the hatter from Reading who challenged the 'feudal' restrictions of the Game Laws by tract, trespass and stuffed jay birds; and foreign exotics such as the German-born Conrad Stollmeyer, escaping the sinking of an experimental Naval Automaton in Margate to build a fortune as theAsphalt King of Trinidad.Combining these figures with the biography of a man whose literary career was eccentric and whose public antics were capitalised upon by critics of Chartist agitation, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in radical reform and popular political movements in Victorian Britain.
Author : John T. Krumpelmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 16,94 MB
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3111326217
No detailed description available for "Bayard Taylor and German letters".
Author : New York Public Library. Reference Dept
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Page : 886 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 1961
Category : America
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Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 33,21 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Best books
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