Blake's Water-Colours for the Poems of Thomas Gray

Blake's Water-Colours for the Poems of Thomas Gray
Author: William Blake
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2013-12-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 048614710X

116 watercolors illustrate 13 best-loved poems by Thomas Gray, including "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" and "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat." First inexpensive full-color reproduction, with complete text of poems.

The Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake

The Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake
Author: Henry Timberlake
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781016176910

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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and Other Poems

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and Other Poems
Author: Thomas Gray
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2009-04-02
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0141932872

The English countryside has inspired some of the most exquisite and well-loved poetry ever composed in the language. This selection of verse includes, among others, Thomas Gray's reflective and moving meditation on mortality, 'Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard', the soaring beauty of Wordsworth's lines on Tintern Abbey and Keats's ode to Autumn, the deceptively simple words of Emily Brontë and the personal and evocative verse of Thomas Hardy, bringing together the greatest riches of English poetry. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside - but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land - as well as those who are travelling through it.English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man's relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).

Gray's Poems

Gray's Poems
Author: Thomas Gray
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1891
Genre: English poetry
ISBN:

Sea of Gray

Sea of Gray
Author: Tom Chaffin
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2007-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0374707006

Assembled from hundreds of original documents, including intimate shipboard journals kept by Shenandoah officers, Sea of Gray is a masterful narrative of men at sea The sleek, 222-foot, black auxiliary steamer Sea King left London on October 8, 1864, ostensibly bound for Bombay. The subterfuge was ended off the shores of Madeira, where the ship was outfitted for war. The newly christened CSS Shenandoah then commenced the last, most quixotic sea story of the Civil War: the 58,000-mile, around-the-world cruise of the Confederacy's second most successful commerce raider. Before its voyage was over, thirty-two Union merchant and whaling ships and their cargoes would be destroyed. But it was only after ship and crew embarked on the last leg of their journey that the excursion took its most fearful turn. Four months after the Civil War was over, the Shenandoah's Captain Waddell finally learned he was, and had been, fighting without cause or state. In the eyes of the world, he had gone from being an enemy combatant to being a pirate—a hangable offense. Now fearing capture and mutiny, with supplies quickly dwindling, Waddell elected to camouflage the ship, circumnavigate the globe, and attempt to surrender on English soil. "A superb account of how the Confederate raider Shenandoah brought the American Civil War to the farthest reaches of the world." -- Nathaniel Philbrick, author of Mayflower and Sea of Glory

The Confessions of Nat Turner

The Confessions of Nat Turner
Author: William Styron
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1980
Genre: Nat Turner's Rebellion, Virginia, 1831
ISBN: 9780552115278

Presents a fictionalized account of the 1831 slave revolt led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia.