The Best Books

The Best Books
Author: William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 474
Release: 1910
Genre: Best books
ISBN:

British Poets and Secret Societies (Routledge Revivals)

British Poets and Secret Societies (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Marie Mulvey-Roberts
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317634896

A surprisingly large number of English poets have either belonged to a secret society, or been strongly influenced by its tenets. One of the best known examples is Christopher Smart’s membership of the Freemasons, and the resulting influence of Masonic doctrines on A Song to David. However, many other poets have belonged to, or been influenced by not only the Freemasons, but the Rosicrucians, Gormogons and Hell-Fire Clubs. First published in 1986, this study concentrates on five major examples: Smart, Burns, William Blake, William Butler Yeats and Rudyard Kipling, as well as a number of other poets. Marie Roberts questions why so many poets have been powerfully attracted to the secret societies, and considers the effectiveness of poetry as a medium for conveying secret emblems and ritual. She shows how some poets believed that poetry would prove a hidden symbolic language in which to reveal great truths. The beliefs of these poets are as diverse as their practice, and this book sheds fascinating light on several major writers.

The Last Great Adventure of the PB & J Society

The Last Great Adventure of the PB & J Society
Author: Janet Sumner Johnson
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 162370636X

When her best friend's house is threatened with foreclosure, young Annie Jenkins is full of ideas to save the home. But when Annie tracks a lost treasure to Jason's backyard, she's sure the booty will be enough to save Jason's family.

You Have to Stop This

You Have to Stop This
Author: Pseudonymous Bosch
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2012-06-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1409548813

Do you want to finally, conclusively, and at (very) long last, learn the Secret? Are you REALLY sure? Because now's your chance to escape... No? You're staying put? Have you any idea of what lies between these perilous pages? (How could you? ... except perhaps if you were to smell that faint aroma of musty mummy, or catch a glance of the deviously despicable Lord Pharaoh). Well, if you really want to learn the Secret I suppose you'll HAVE to read this. But you won't like it. The fifth and final fantastical adventure in the 'Secret' series in which Cass, Max-Ernest and Yo-Yoji are accused of stealing a very-valuable-and-not-to-be-touched ancient Egyptian mummy from the local museum. They are determined to clear their names, but after getting accidentally trapped in a crate with a mummified cat, the three youngest members of the Terces society unwittingly find themselves on their way to the great pyramids of...Las Vegas. Amongst the dusty corridors of the Cairo Hotel and mysterious hieroglyphs of the Nile Nail Salon, Cass draws ever closer to uncovering the Secret...

Secret Society (PB)

Secret Society (PB)
Author: Emma Nicholson
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Total Pages:
Release: 1999-04-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780575064041