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Nine Tales

By: Mabel Osgood Wright,Hugh De Selincourt

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Nine Tales

By: Mabel Osgood Wright,Hugh De Selincourt

Included: "The Sacrifice," "The Passionate Time-Server," The Last Quality," "Men and Brothers," "The Shy Poor Man," "The Right Thing," "Sense of Sin," "Arethusa," and "The Birth of an Artist.

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322

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Wildside Press LLC

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1434479315

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9781434479310

Wordsworth and the Worth of Words

By: Hugh Sykes-Davies

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Wordsworth and the Worth of Words

By: Hugh Sykes-Davies

In this book Hugh Sykes Davies addresses Wordworth's major poetry from the perspectives of language, Freud, Coleridge and the Romantic Imagination. A remarkable combination of analytic and empathic intelligence, this book should earn a place among the few essential studies of the poet.

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342

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Cambridge University Press

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0521309093

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9780521309097

The Cricket Match

By: Hugh de Selincourt

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The Cricket Match

By: Hugh de Selincourt

The Cricket Match is the best-known and best-loved cricket story ever written. Hugh de Selincourt brilliantly captures the atmosphere of Tillingfold - the model English village with its friendly peacefulness and rustic good humour - on the day of the now celebrated match against the neighbouring village of Raveley.

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212

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Rare Treasure Editions

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1774644584

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9781774644584

Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire

By: Hugh Foley

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Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire

By: Hugh Foley

What is the difference between the ‘I’ of a poem—the lyric subject— and the liberal subject of rights? Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire uses this question to re-examine the work of five major American poets, changing our understanding of their writing and the field of post-war American poetry. Through extended readings of the work of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Amiri Baraka, John Ashbery, and Jorie Graham, Hugh Foley shows how poets have imagined liberalism as a problem for poetry. Foley's book offers a new approach to ongoing debates about the nature of lyric by demonstrating the entanglement of ideas about the lyric poem with the development of twentieth-century liberal discussions of individuality. Arguing that the nature of American empire in this period—underpinned by the discourse of individual rights—forced poets to reckon with this entanglement, it demonstrates how this reckoning helped to shape poetry in the post-war period. By tracing the ways a lyric poem performs personhood, and the ways that this person can be distinguished from the individual envisioned by post-war liberalism, Foley shows how each poet stages a critique of liberalism from inside the standpoint of ‘lyric'>. This book demonstrates the capacities of poetry for rethinking its own relation to history and politics, providing a new perspective on a vital era of American poetry.

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256

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Oxford University Press

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0192671278

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9780192671271

Greek in a Cold Climate

By: Hugh Lloyd-Jones

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Greek in a Cold Climate

By: Hugh Lloyd-Jones

In this sequel to BLOOD FOR THE GHOSTS AND CLASSICAL SURVIVALS, Hugh Lloyd-Jones treats many topics in the study of the ancient world. The subjects range from Homer and Pindar to the pioneering work of modern scholars such as Scaliger, Gilbert Murray, Dean Inge and Edgar Lobel and the relevance (or lack of relevance) of psychoanalysis to a proper interpretation of classical thought and literature. A final chapter, from which the title of the collection derives, gives a new assessment of the place of Greek learning in the world today.

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254

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0389209678

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9780389209676

On the Literature and Thought of the German Classical Era

Collected Essays

By: Hugh Barr Nisbet

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On the Literature and Thought of the German Classical Era

Collected Essays

By: Hugh Barr Nisbet

This volume provides a valuable contribution to our knowledge of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century intellectual life inside and outside Germany. —Prof. Karl S. Guthke, Harvard University This elegant collection of essays ranges across eighteenth and nineteenth-century thought, covering philosophy, science, literature and religion in the ‘Age of Goethe.’ A recognised authority in the field, Nisbet grapples with the major voices of the Enlightenment and gives pride of place to the figures of Lessing, Herder, Goethe and Schiller. These eleven essays range widely in their compass of thought and intellectual discourse, dealing incisively with themes including the philosophical implications of literature and the relationship between religion, science and politics. The result is an accomplished reflection on German thought, but also on its rebirth, as Nisbet argues for the relevance of these Enlightenment thinkers for the readers of today. The first half of this collection focuses predominantly on eighteenth-century thought, where names like Lessing, Goethe and Herder, but also Locke and Voltaire, feature. The second has a wider chronological scope, discussing authors such as Winckelmann and Schiller, while branching out from discussions of religion, philosophy and literature to explore the sciences. Issues of biology, early environmentalism, and natural history also form part of this volume. The collection concludes with an examination of changing attitudes towards art in the aftermath of the ‘Age of Goethe.’ The essays in this volume have been previously published separately, but are brought together in this collection to present Nisbet’s widely-acclaimed perspectives on this fascinating period of German thought. It will be of interest to scholars and students of the intellectual life of Europe during the Enlightenment, while its engaging and lucid style will also appeal to the general reader.

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208

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Open Book Publishers

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1783747722

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9781783747726

Selected Essays of Hugh MacDiarmid

By: Hugh MacDiarmid

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Selected Essays of Hugh MacDiarmid

By: Hugh MacDiarmid

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 1969.

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252

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Univ of California Press

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0520335740

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9780520335745

Friends and Enemies

The Natal Campaign in the South African War 1899-1902

By: Hugh Rethman

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Friends and Enemies

The Natal Campaign in the South African War 1899-1902

By: Hugh Rethman

When the Boer Republics invaded Natal in 1899, the invaders could have been driven out with casualties measured in hundreds. Instead Britain was to lose nearly 9,000 men killed in action, more than 13,000 to disease and a further 75,000 wounded and sick were invalided back to Britain. The war ended in 1902 with a very unsatisfactory Peace Treaty. At the start of the conflict Britain’s Generals were faced with problems new to the military establishment. Shows of force did little to intimidate a determined opposition; infantry charges against a hidden enemy armed with modern rifles resulted in a futile waste of lives. Artillery could now destroy unseen targets at great range. Lack of mobility resulted in more than half the army being besieged in Ladysmith bringing with it concomitant civilian involvement. Some generals learnt quickly – others were slower and yet others still, perhaps through pride and stubbornness, refused to alter their ways and thus their men paid with their lives. The bravery and sacrifice of men during the campaign have been described in many books, as have the faults – real and imagined – of the generals. But little attention has been paid to the greatest blunder of all: a failure to take proper cognizance of local advice, opinion and capability. From the beginning, locally raised regiments demonstrated how the Boers might be defeated without incurring heavy casualties and, when they were finally given their head, they chased the invaders out of Natal while suffering only nominal casualties. This deeply researched study of the Boer War includes, for the first time, the experiences of the inhabitants of Natal – soldier and civilian, men, women and children, black and white. Diaries and letters vividly portray the actions at Talana, Elandslaagte, Colenso, Acton Homes and Spion Kop, as well as the siege of Ladysmith in which 15,000 military personnel and 2,500 residents and refugees were incarcerated for four months, slowly but surely dying from starvation and sickness until their relief. Before, during and after the Boer War many myths were created and facts hidden to suit political ends. The result was that lessons, which should have been learned were never adequately understood or applied. With the West still engaged in foreign wars, these old mistakes should be remembered and not repeated. Friends and Enemies is the result of years of intensive research undertaken in archives in both South Africa and Britain. It offers an important and scholarly resource to students of nineteenth and twentieth century conflict.

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328

Publisher

Tattered Flag

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0957689241

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9780957689244

The Image of the Black in Western Art

From the American Revolution to World War I

By: Hugh Honour,Ladislas Bugner

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The Image of the Black in Western Art

From the American Revolution to World War I

By: Hugh Honour,Ladislas Bugner

Earlier volumes of Honour's monumental study are cited in BCL3. Volume four, in two books, studies the images of blacks by white American and European visual artists from the American revolution to World War I. Part one focuses on slavery and its aftermath; part two covers other themes during the same period. Excellent reproductions, most in color, on nearly every page. The text draws on contemporary literature about subjects depicted in the paintings. No subject index. 111/4x101/4". Even the most impoverished must have Images to fulfill pretensions to an adequate black studies collection. The price is very modest for such size and quality of scholarship and bookmaking elegance.

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388

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093959417X

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9780939594177

Book's by Hugh de Selincourt

Nine Tales

Nine Tales

Wordsworth and the Worth of Words

Wordsworth and the Worth of Words

The Cricket Match

The Cricket Match

Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire

Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire

Greek in a Cold Climate

Greek in a Cold Climate

On the Literature and Thought of the German Classical Era

On the Literature and Thought of the German Classical Era

Selected Essays of Hugh MacDiarmid

Selected Essays of Hugh MacDiarmid

Friends and Enemies

Friends and Enemies

The Image of the Black in Western Art

The Image of the Black in Western Art

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