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Dante

A Life

By: R. W. B. Lewis

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An insightful biography of Florence?s famous son Acclaimed biog rap her R.W.B. Lewis traces the life and complex development? emotional, artistic, philosophical?of this supreme poet-historian. Here we meet the boy who first encounters the mythic Beatrice, the lyric poet obsessed with love and death, the grand master of dramatic narrative and allegory, and his monumental search for ultimate truth in The Divine Comedy. It is in this masterpiece of self-discovery and redemption that Lewis finds Dante?s own autobiography?and the sum of all his shifting passions and epiphanies.

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Penguin

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1101162988

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9781101162989

American Characters

Selections from the National Portrait Gallery, Accompanied by Literary Portraits

By: Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis,Nancy Lewis,National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)

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American Characters

Selections from the National Portrait Gallery, Accompanied by Literary Portraits

By: Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis,Nancy Lewis,National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)

Presents a visual and literary review of famous Americans

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448

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Yale University Press

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0300078951

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9780300078954

The Middle Ground

Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815

By: Richard White

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The Middle Ground

Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815

By: Richard White

An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations - stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as other, as virtually nonhuman, and how between 1650 and 1815 they constructed a common, mutually comprehensible world in the region around the Great Lakes that the French called pays d'en haut. Here the older worlds of the Algonquians and of various Europeans overlapped, and their mixture created new systems of meaning and of exchange. Finally, the book tells of the breakdown of accommodation and common meanings and the re-creation of the Indians as alien and exotic. First published in 1991, the 20th anniversary edition includes a new preface by the author examining the impact and legacy of this study.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139495682

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9781139495684

The Poetry of Hart Crane

By: Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis

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The Poetry of Hart Crane

By: Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis

One of the leading critics of our time, R.W.B. Lewis, charts the career of Hart Crane's imagination-of his vision, his rhetoric, and his craft. Crane, who has heretofore been assigned a relatively minor place in American letters, emerges from this rich, dense book as one of the finest poets in our language. Mr. Lewis traces the development of the theme which runs through all of Crane’s poetry-the need for the visionary and loving transfiguration of the actual world-and claims that it is this theme which gives Crane’s poetry its extraordinary consistency. Mr. Lewis also relates Crane’s development as poet to the Anglo-American Romantic tradition and argues that Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, and Emerson are vital to an understanding of Crane’s work. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400878489

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9781400878482

The Poetry of Hart Crane

By: Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis

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By: Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis

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Dante

A Life

By: Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis

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Dante

A Life

By: Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis

Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265. In 1309 he was banished from his birthplace for political reasons, and sentenced to death in his absence. From then on he led a wanderer's life in Verona and Tuscany, eventually settling in Ravenna where he was buried on his death in 1321. His most celebrated work is the DIVINA COMMEDIA which he began in 1307. It is his spiritual odyssey through Hell and Purgatory, guided by Virgil, and finally to Paradise, guided by Beatrice. It gives an encyclopaedic knowledge of the age, all expressed in the most exquisite poetry. The DIVINA COMMEDIA, which Dante began in Latin, established Italian as a literary language. Dante also completed other important canzoni or short poems, eclogues, and an unfinished work, DE VULGARI ELOQUENTIA, discussing the origin of the language, the divisions of language and the dialect of Italian in particular.

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075381319X

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9780753813195

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