A Draft of XXX Cantos

A Draft of XXX Cantos
Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1990
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780811211284

The Cantos have been called Ezra Pound's intellectual diary, composed over the course of sixty years. Long out of print as a separate volume--it was originally published in 1933--this epic of nine groupings of poems is now being issued as a New Directions Paperbook.

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale
Author: Florence Nightingale
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1997-08-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781901341027

Writing from the Crimea where she nursed wounded soldiers, Florence Nightingale through her letters tirelessly pushed for reforms that would improve the welfare of the troops and recruited volunteer nurses. From her correspondence emerges an extraordinary self-portrait of a complex and contradictory personality, very different from the heroine of popular myth. Illustrations.