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Poems of Edward Thomas

By: Edward Thomas

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Since the publication of Walter de la Mare's first edition of his poems in 1920, Edward Thomas has gradually come to be seen as one of the great English poets of the 20th century. Though sometimes classified with Owen, Rosenberg, and Sassoon as a "war poet," he was rather a poet who died tragically in the war. His main subjects were the English countryside and people, solitude, and the anguish of solipsism. As de la Mare wrote eighty years ago, "When Edward Thomas was killed in Flanders, a mirror of England was shattered of so pure and true a crystal that a clearer and tenderer reflection of it can be found no other where than in these poems." This complete collection of Thomas's poems returns us to the ongoing relevance of this essential poet. Revealing a poet whose work resonates in our times, this volume will be returned to again and again. The sorrow of true love is a great sorrow And true love parting blackens a bright morrow: Yet almost they equal joys, since their despair Is but hope blinded by its tears, and clear Above the storm the heavens wait to be seen. But greater sorrow from less love has been That can mistake lack of despair for hope And knows not tempest and the perfect scope Of summer, but a frozen drizzle perpetual Of drops that from remorse and pity fall And cannot ever shine in the sun or thaw, Removed eternally from the sun's law. - Last Poem [The sorrow of true love]

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Other Press, LLC

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159051579X

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9781590515792

The Childhood of Edward Thomas

By: Edward Thomas

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The Childhood of Edward Thomas

By: Edward Thomas

Killed at Arras in 1917, Edward Thomas left behind him a short, vivid history of his own early life, covering the period from his birth to his entry into St Paul's. Though a fragment, in many senses it is far more: in the words of its author 'no less than an autobiography . . . an attempt to put down on paper what [this author] sees when he thinks of himself from 1878 to about 1895'. The Childhood of Edward Thomas was not published until 1938, over two decades after Thomas originally showed the manuscript to a publisher. Those eventual publishers, Faber & Faber, were building on their release two years earlier of Thomas's Collected Poems, for which he was becoming best known. This edition includes Edward Thomas's 'War Diary,' a record of the last three months of his life when, as an elderly - at thirty-eight - subaltern he fought among the misery of the trenches. To witness Thomas's childhood memoir and wartime diaries in such close proximity is to have a moving incarnation of his distinctive voice, its clarity and - even in war - its unfailing attention to his fellow-creatures.

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Faber & Faber

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0571310052

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9780571310050

Selected Poems and Prose

By: Edward Thomas

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Selected Poems and Prose

By: Edward Thomas

I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deep Forest where all must lose Their way, however straight, Or winding, soon or late; They cannot choose.' Fired by his abiding love of the English landscape, the poetry of Edward Thomas is some of the most astonishing of the twentieth century. A journalist, essayist and critic for many years, he was encouraged to write verse by his friend Robert Frost. He produced a late outburst of poetry of extraordinary beauty and mystery about the subjects closest to his heart: rural England and its inhabitants, landscape, atmosphere, transience, endurance and death. By 1917, when he was killed on the Western Front, he had earned his place as one of England's most valued poets. This selection brings together his finest verse with his most vivid prose writings on the countryside.

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Penguin UK

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0241399173

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9780241399170

Selected Poems of Edward Thomas

By: Edward Thomas

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Selected Poems of Edward Thomas

By: Edward Thomas

When Edward Thomas was killed at the Battle of Arras in 1917 his poems were largely unpublished. But in the years since his death, his work has come to be cherished for its rare, sustained vision of the natural world and as 'a mirror of England' (Walter de la Mare). This edition, drawn from Thomas's manuscripts and typescripts as well as from his published works, offers an accessible introduction to this most resonant - and relevant - of poets. 'In his lifetime, he was known and loved by a very, loving few. Now, since his death, he is known and loved by very many, and yearly this is more so. There is in his poems and unassumingly profound sense of permanence. A war came and ditched him, but his poems stay with no other wounds than those which caused them.' Dylan Thomas 'A very fine poet. And a poet all in his own right. The accent is absolutely his own.' Robert Frost 'The one hundred and forty poems he wrote in the last two years of his life are a miracle. I can think of no body of work in English that is more mysterious.' Michael Longley

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Faber & Faber

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0571278965

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9780571278961

Harvesting the Air

Windmill Pioneers in Twelfth-Century England

By: Edward J. Kealey

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Harvesting the Air

Windmill Pioneers in Twelfth-Century England

By: Edward J. Kealey

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

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Univ of California Press

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0520329244

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9780520329249

Laboratory for Liberty

The South Carolina Legislative Committee System 1719–1776

By: George Edward Frakes

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Laboratory for Liberty

The South Carolina Legislative Committee System 1719–1776

By: George Edward Frakes

This comprehensive study highlights the importance of legislative and extralegal committees in the political and institutional development of early American history, showing how the colonial experience modified a basic British institution, using it in the cause of legislative supremacy and, eventually, independence. The book illuminates the role played by committees in the growth of colonial self-government, tracing the committee system to its origins in the parliamentary committees of medieval England, then following the permutations of the committee system through the decades in which self-government emerged in South Carolina. Solid, penetrating, the book offers new depths of insight into an important process that had vital importance to the growth of representative government in America.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813187982

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9780813187983

Jesus, Gospel Tradition and Paul in the Context of Jewish and Greco-Roman Antiquity

Collected Essays II

By: David Edward Aune

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Jesus, Gospel Tradition and Paul in the Context of Jewish and Greco-Roman Antiquity

Collected Essays II

By: David Edward Aune

Collection of texts published previously.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161523156

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9783161523151

Antonin Scalia and American Constitutionalism

The Historical Significance of a Judicial Icon

By: Edward A. Purcell, Jr.

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Antonin Scalia and American Constitutionalism

The Historical Significance of a Judicial Icon

By: Edward A. Purcell, Jr.

Antonin Scalia and American Constitutionalism is an in-depth study of Justice Antonin Scalia's jurisprudence, his work on the Supreme Court, and his significance in the history of American constitutionalism. After tracing Scalia's rise to Associate Justice and his subsequent emergence as a hero of the Republican Party and the political right, this book reviews and criticizes his general jurisprudential theory, arguing that he failed to produce either the objective method he claimed or the correct constitutional results he promised. Focusing on his judicial performance over his thirty years on the Court, it examines his decisions and opinions on virtually all of the constitutional issues he addressed from the fundamentals of structure (federalism, separation of powers, and the Article III judicial power) to specific interpretations of most major constitutional provisions involving governmental powers and the rights of individuals under the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment. This book argues that Scalia applied his jurisprudential theories in inconsistent and contradictory ways and often ignored, distorted, or abandoned the interpretive methods he proclaimed to reach the results he sought, results that were aligned with and supported by the post-Reagan Republican coalition. Scalia was far more consistent in enforcing such ideologically compatible results than he was in following his proclaimed jurisprudential theories. Finally, assessing Scalia's historical significance, Antonin Scalia and American Constitutionalism argues that his jurisprudence and career are particularly illuminating because they exemplify--contrary to his persistent claims--three paramount characteristics of American constitutionalism: the inherent inadequacy of originalism and other formal interpretive methodologies to produce consistent and correct answers to controverted constitutional questions; the close relationship that exists, particularly so in Scalia's case, between constitutional theories and interpretations on one hand and substantive political goals and values on the other; and the unavoidably living nature of American constitutionalism itself. All in all, Scalia stands as a towering figure of irony because his judicial career deconstructed the central claims of his own jurisprudence.

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Oxford University Press

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0197508782

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9780197508787

Biography by Americans, 1658-1936

A Subject Bibliography

By: Edward H. O'Neill

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Biography by Americans, 1658-1936

A Subject Bibliography

By: Edward H. O'Neill

This volume is the most comprehensive bibliography of purely biographical material written by Americans. It covers every possible field of life but, by design, excludes autobiographies, diaries, and journals.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512804940

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9781512804942

Lincoln and Grant

The Westerners Who Won the Civil War

By: Edward H. Bonekemper

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Lincoln and Grant

The Westerners Who Won the Civil War

By: Edward H. Bonekemper

Lincoln and Grant is an intimate dual-portrait of President Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant: their ordinary "Western" backgrounds, their early struggles to succeed, and their history-making relationship during the Civil War. Though generally remembered by history as two very different personalities, the soft-spoken Lincoln and often-crude Grant in fact shared a similar drive and determination, as this in-depth character study illustrates.

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Simon and Schuster

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1621574237

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9781621574231

John Neill of Lewes, Delaware, 1739, and His Descendants

By: Edward Duffield Neill

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John Neill of Lewes, Delaware, 1739, and His Descendants

By: Edward Duffield Neill

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385381037

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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800

By: Philip H. Highfill,Kalman A. Burnim,Edward A. Langhans

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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800

By: Philip H. Highfill,Kalman A. Burnim,Edward A. Langhans

Like the works already published, these latest volumes of the Biographical Dictionary deal with theatre people of every ilk, ranging from dressers and one-performance actors to trumpeter John Shore (inventor of the tuning fork) and the incomparable Sarah Siddons. Also prominent is Susanna Rowson, a novelist, actress, and early female playwright. Although born into a British military family, Rowson often wrote plays that dealt with patriotic American themes and spent much of her career on the American stage. The theatrical jewel of these volumes is the "divine Sarah" Siddons: "She raised the tragedy to the skies," wrote William Hazlitt, and "embodied to our imagination the fables of mythology, of the heroic and dignified mortals of elder time." She endured much tragedy herself, including a crippling debilitating illness and the deaths of five of her seven children. Siddons played major roles in both comedy and tragedy, not the least of which was a performance as Hamlet.

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SIU Press

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0809315262

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9780809315260

Outcasts from Eden

Ideas of Landscape in British Poetry Since 1945

By: Edward Picot

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Outcasts from Eden

Ideas of Landscape in British Poetry Since 1945

By: Edward Picot

A re-evaluation, in terms of their contributions to the landscape genre, of five important post-war poets: Philip Larkin, R. S. Thomas, Charles Tomlinson, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney.

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Liverpool University Press

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0853235317

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9780853235316

Encyclopedia of the Blues: K-Z, index

By: Edward M. Komara

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Encyclopedia of the Blues: K-Z, index

By: Edward M. Komara

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Book's by Edward Thomas

Poems of Edward Thomas

Poems of Edward Thomas

The Childhood of Edward Thomas

The Childhood of Edward Thomas

Selected Poems and Prose

Selected Poems and Prose

Selected Poems of Edward Thomas

Selected Poems of Edward Thomas

Harvesting the Air

Harvesting the Air

Laboratory for Liberty

Laboratory for Liberty

Jesus, Gospel Tradition and Paul in the Context of Jewish and Greco-Roman Antiquity

Jesus, Gospel Tradition and Paul in the Context of Jewish and Greco-Roman Antiquity

Antonin Scalia and American Constitutionalism

Antonin Scalia and American Constitutionalism

Biography by Americans, 1658-1936

Biography by Americans, 1658-1936

Lincoln and Grant

Lincoln and Grant

John Neill of Lewes, Delaware, 1739, and His Descendants

John Neill of Lewes, Delaware, 1739, and His Descendants

A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800

A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800

Outcasts from Eden

Outcasts from Eden

Encyclopedia of the Blues: K-Z, index

Encyclopedia of the Blues: K-Z, index

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