Recent literary scholarship has seen a shift of interest away from questions of attribution. Yet these questions remain urgent and important for any historical study of writing, and have been given a powerful new impetus by advances in statistical studies of language and the coming on line of large databases of texts in machine-searchable form. The present book is the first comprehensive survey of the field from a literary perspective to appear for forty years. It covers both traditional and computer based approaches to attribution, and evaluates each in respect of their potentialities and limitations. It revisits a number of famous controversies, including those concerning the authorship of the Homeric poems, books from the Old and New Testaments, and the plays of Shakespeare. Written with wit as well as erudition Attributing Authorship will make this intriguing field accessible for students and scholars alike.
These short stories filled with “narrative grace and rare craftsmanship” chronicle the loss of innocence and the anguish of young love (San Francisco Chronicle). First Love and Other Sorrows is the hauntingly beautiful debut collection of short stories from American master Harold Brodkey. Written when the author was in his twenties, these strong, affecting tales recall the intoxicating joy of young, springtime love, while lamenting the betrayal of dreams and false ideals in the glaring light of reality. Set in the Midwest during the 1950s, First Love and Other Sorrows centers around a Jewish family that has recently lost its patriarch—and with him the world of privilege. Through the eyes of a son, a sister, and a mother—each one struggling to find a foothold in both family and society—these stories explore class prejudice, obsessive love, and the tragic foibles and emotional truths of being human. First Love and Other Sorrows is masterful fiction from an extraordinary literary artist.
When late seventeenth-century readers wanted to inform themselves about happenings at the centres of power and fashion they had no newspapers or gossip columns to fall back on. Instead they turned to lampoons - frank, malicious, and often highly indecent accounts in verse of the real or fabricated goings on of the court and ruling elite. Harold Love presents the first comprehensive account of the thousands of lampoons and more serious `state poems' that survive from RestorationEngland and their impact on the life of the nation and the literary practice of satire.
Most of us have known some kind of religious conversion, dramatic shift of consciousness, out-of-body experience, or renewed spiritual awareness. You know what you've found is real, but as the intensity fades, you wonder. Are you left with only dying embers? Or do you discover the long-lasting, slow burning love of God? You will, as you keep giving of yourself. The is how love endures. In The Slow Burning Love of God, the thirteenth book of the Mahanta Transcripts series containing Sri Harold Klemp's talks from 1993 to 1994, you'll find true-life stories, unique insights, and more than thirty different techniques to show you how to experience the presence of God in your life. Move into higher states of consciousness, see truth when it comes to you, solve problems, and find your next spiritual step. The Mahanta Transcripts are excerpts from Harold Klemp's worldwide speaking tours. They offer study aids for greater spiritual understanding, and are an excellent introduction to Eckankar.
Harold L. Turley II opens a revealing window into the male African American psyche in this captivating first novel about sex, relationships, marriage, and monogamy. Terry, Jeff, and Tyrelle manage a nightclub together, where the three cousins have their pick of any woman they desire. Terry is a former college basketball star married to Tracy—and cheating on her with Angie. But meaningless affairs are starting to leave Terry feeling hollow inside. He decides it's time to clean up his act...only to discover that it's too late. A lifetime player, Jeff has finally realized that he's ready to settle down with his current girlfriend. The problem is, he's feeling guilty about all the times he was unfaithful to her. Clearing his conscience would give him a clean slate, but will it cost him the most important relationship in his life? As for Ty, he's caught between a rock and a hard place: he loves his freedom but at the same time doesn't want to lose his girlfriend. And his lover is about to drop a bombshell that will reverberate across every area of his life. Funny, sensuous, and dead-on target when it comes to the games lovers play, Love's Game tells what happens when the tables are turned and the stakes are raised.
Your life is what you have made it. If you can learn from the lessons you have created for yourself, you'll find greater happiness, peace, and freedom from fear. The Secret of Love, the fourteenth book of the Mahanta Transcript series, is full of stories and practical insights from Sri Harold Klemp's talks in 1994 to 1995 to help you expand and be stretched, listen and be listened to, touch and be touched. Through these small acts of love you'll find yourself--and find God. You'll discover the secret that in giving you most receive.
The purpose of this engaging book is twofold: to explain and justify the primary objects and methods of the discipline of philosophy, and to show how philosophy is relevant to a person's life and happiness. Both purposes are implied in the idea of wisdom in its theoretical and existential dimensions. Philosophy is the 'love of wisdom, ' and wisdom involves coming into a right relation to the world of beauty, goodness, and truth
Harold L. Turley II opens a revealing window into the male African American psyche in this captivating first novel about sex, relationships, marriage, and monogamy. Terry, Jeff, and Tyrelle manage a nightclub together, where the three cousins have their pick of any woman they desire. Terry is a former college basketball star married to Tracy—and cheating on her with Angie. But meaningless affairs are starting to leave Terry feeling hollow inside. He decides it's time to clean up his act...only to discover that it's too late. A lifetime player, Jeff has finally realized that he's ready to settle down with his current girlfriend. The problem is, he's feeling guilty about all the times he was unfaithful to her. Clearing his conscience would give him a clean slate, but will it cost him the most important relationship in his life? As for Ty, he's caught between a rock and a hard place: he loves his freedom but at the same time doesn't want to lose his girlfriend. And his lover is about to drop a bombshell that will reverberate across every area of his life. Funny, sensuous, and dead-on target when it comes to the games lovers play, Love's Game tells what happens when the tables are turned and the stakes are raised.
In this book you will find the answers to make you the best you can be. Learn the true meaning of love and enjoy health and happiness. Within this book is the key to changing your life and the greatest joy of sharing it with others. In all of history, people suffer more today from little or no love, and it is increasing at a phenomenal rate. The fact is that four of the ten leading causes of disability in the US and other developing countries are mental disorders. Approximately thirty percent of the US population experience some type of mental disorder each year. Suicide kills more people worldwide than murder or war combined. Life is a purposeful mission and without the knowledge or the conviction to change, there can be nothing but unhappiness, ill-health and an untimely death.
George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham (1628-1687) was one of the most scandalous and controversial figures of the Restoration period. He was the principal author of The Rehearsal (1671), an enormously successful burlesque play that ridiculed John Dryden and the rhymed heroic drama. Historians remember Buckingham as an opponent who helped topple Clarendon from power in 1667, as a member of the 'Cabal' government in the early 1670s, and as an ally of the Earl of Shaftesbury in the political crisis of 1678-1683. The duke was prominent among the 'court wits' (Rochester, Etherege, Sedley, Dorset, Wycherley, and their circle); he was closely associated with such writers as Butler and Cowley; he was a conspicuous champion of religious toleration and a friend of William Penn. No edition of Buckingham has been published since 1775, partly because his work presents horrendous attribution problems. He was (probably) adapter or co-author of six plays (two of them vastly successful for more than a century) including one in French that appears here in English for the first time. He is also associated with nine topical pieces (variously political, religious, and satiric) and some twenty poems of wildly varying type. The 'Buckingham' commonplace book has previously been published only in fragmentary form. Almost all of these works present major difficulties in both attribution and annotation, here seriously addressed for the first time. This edition is a companion venture to Harold Love's important edition of Rochester (OUP, 1999).
There exist wonderful truths--spiritual laws that nourish us, one and all. Laws of wisdom, freedom, and charity, or divine love. How can we shape our lives and destiny to live in harmony with them? As awakened captains of our destiny, we can meet today's challenges in a more relaxed and happy way. The spiritual laws of life give us the many resources to make the very best decision at any one moment. Read Harold Klemp's groundbreaking book. Watch a new vista of understanding open for you. You've not seen the likes of it. Learn how to keep in tune with your true spiritual nature. Suddenly you're living a full, exciting life of greater love, energy, and wonder. Do you wish to open a door to the hidden spiritual truths that uplift us all? Then come along. Open these pages and enjoy the adventure! Eckankar is a modern-day spiritual teaching with ancient roots founded in 1965 by Paul Twitchell. Harold Klemp is the current spiritual leader of Eckankar since 1981.
Drummond's Classic is as stunning and elegant in its simplicity today as it was when he first spoke it. His message is clear. Love is the greatest thing in the world, life's richest experience, and the ultimate statement of our faith.
Although his earliest days were spent in a town, author Harold William Marihart had the dream of one day becoming a farmer. From very young age, he enjoyed helping his grandparents and others with the chores on their farms. In The Ramblings of a Merry Heart, Marihart narrates these and many other stories from his eighty years. In this memoir, he shares some of the highlights of his lifehis birth in small-town Minnesota in 1931, being raised as an only child, attending school, helping with farm chores, earning money as a produce salesman at age seven, buying his first car, becoming a sailor, meeting his wife, navigating parenthood, and realizing his dream of owning a ranch. Including photos, The Ramblings of a Merry Heart includes descriptions of true events and anecdotes from Mariharts long life. It is eighty years of love and laughter bound into one book.
This book includes guidance as well as information and inspiration. There are practical recommendations on how to perform acts of kindness in personal lives and at work, toward friends, colleagues, and family members—even with one's enemies. Suggestions are also offered on ways to encourage others to be kind so they, too, can experience the joy that results.
Thirty select sermons from Dr. Harold "Chris" Smith answering such questions as: "Can a person be born a homosexual?" "Why do bad things happen to good people?" "Which sin is the worst?" "What are the secrets to contentment?" And many more!
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