Bound to Read

Bound to Read
Author: Jeffrey Todd Knight
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-05-29
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0812245075

Jeffrey Todd Knight excavates the culture of book collecting and compiling in early modern England, examining how the pervasive practice of mixing texts, authors, and genres into single bindings defined Renaissance ways of thinking and writing.

The Lyttelton-Hart-Davis Letters

The Lyttelton-Hart-Davis Letters
Author: George Lyttelton
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2001-03
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780897333054

This surprising survival has been welcomed by all who know that letters can be the best kind of travelling or bedside reading. George Lyttelton was a retired schoolmaster who began to exchange letters with Rupert Hart-Davis, a London publisher, one of Lyttelton's students at Eton. The correspondence began in 1955 when Lyttelton was 72 and Hart-Davis was 48.

Paddy Bogside

Paddy Bogside
Author: Paddy Doherty
Publisher: Mercier Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

A carpenter and builder by trade, Paddy Doherty was strongly active in the Civil Rights agitation of the late 1960s and early 1970s and was on occasion a victim of police brutality. A radical and trade unionist, this is his story as he gives an account of his life in the city of Derry.

Yvain

Yvain
Author: Chretien de Troyes
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1987-09-10
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0300187580

The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.