Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection

Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection
Author: Walter Savage Landor
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2019-11-25
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

This captivating book contains a unique mix of dialogues and poems. The dialogues are fictional conversations between historical figures, such as Queen Elizabeth and Cecil, Essex and Spenser, Diogenes and Plato, Dante and Beatrice, and even Oliver Cromwell and Sir Oliver Cromwell. The poems cover a range of topics and include titles like 'Fiesole Idyl', 'To Charles Dickens', and 'The Lover'.

Age of Bronze Vol. 2: Sacrifice

Age of Bronze Vol. 2: Sacrifice
Author: Eric Shanower
Publisher: Image Comics
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2020-02-19
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1534316841

Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2004 Now in full color for the first time! Multiple Eisner Award winner ERIC SHANOWER's epic retelling of the Trojan War continues in brilliant tones from colorist JOHN DALLAIRE. High King Agamemnon faces an impossible choice. If he wants victory over Troy, he must sacrifice the life of his eldest daughter. Collects AGE OF BRONZE #10-19

Robert Southey: Later Poetical Works, 1811-1838 Vol 2

Robert Southey: Later Poetical Works, 1811-1838 Vol 2
Author: Tim Fulford
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040250661

Central to any reappraisal of Southey’s mid to late career, is 'Roderick'. This best-selling epic romance has not been republished since 1838 and is contextualised here within Southey’s wider oeuvre. The four-volume edition also benefits from a general introduction, volume introductions, textual variants, endnotes and a consolidated index.

Robert Southey: Poetical Works 1793–1810 Vol 2

Robert Southey: Poetical Works 1793–1810 Vol 2
Author: Lynda Pratt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 599
Release: 2020-04-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000748448

This edition of Robert Southey's early poetry seeks to restore Southey the poet to his place at the centre of late 18th and early 19th century British literary culture. This collection of his poetical works critically reassesses Southey's epics and romances.

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Author: Elizabeth M. Knowles
Publisher: Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1160
Release: 1999
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780198601739

This major new edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations offers the broadest and most up-to-date coverage of quotations available today. Now with 20,000 quotations arranged by author, this is Oxford's largest quotations dictionary ever. As well as quotations from traditional sources,and with improved coverage of world religions and classical Greek and Latin literature, this foremost dictionary of quotations now covers areas such as proverbs and nursery rhymes. For the first time there are special sections for Advertising Slogans, Epitaphs, Film Lines, and Misquotations, whichbring together topical and related quotes, and allow you to browse through the best quotations on a given subject. In this new fifth edition there is enhanced accessibility with a new thematic index to help you find the best quotes on a chosen subject, more in-depth details of the earliest traceable source, an extensive keyword index, and biographical cross-references, so you will easily be able to findquotations for all occasions, and identify who said what, where, and when.

The Acquisition of Books by Chetham's Library, 1655-1700

The Acquisition of Books by Chetham's Library, 1655-1700
Author: Matthew Yeo
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2011-05-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004206655

Drawing on recent debates about the methods of book history, this book explores in detail the foundation and development of Chetham's Library, in Manchester, from its foundation in 1655 until the end of the seventeenth century.