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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry:A Critical Edition by Ezra Pound & Haun Saussy & Ernest Fenollosa & Jonathan Stalling & Lucas Klein
epub |eng | 2008-08-15 | Author:Ezra Pound & Haun Saussy & Ernest Fenollosa & Jonathan Stalling & Lucas Klein [Pound, Ezra]

But this transcendence of parts of speech is only the beginning of the matter. So far we have been dealing with visible acts and truths; but by far the larger ...
( Category: Asian May 14,2016 )
ABC of Reading (New Directions Paperbook) by Ezra Pound
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-03-24 | Author:Ezra Pound [Pound, Ezra]

. . . . . Chaucer is aware of life … parity with Shakespeare. He is informed, and understands the intellectual conquests of Europe … in a way that Will ...
( Category: United States May 14,2016 )
Case for Shakespeare by Scott McCrea
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Scott McCrea

(Hmnlct, I.iii.78-80) Bacon states in another essay that "chiefly, the mold of a mans fortune is in his own hands,"" which is the same idea as Cassius' line in Julius ...
( Category: Shakespeare May 11,2016 )
Second Words by Margaret Atwood
epub |eng | 1995-05-31 | Author:Margaret Atwood

The North, the Wilderness, has traditionally been used in Canadian literature as a symbol for the world of the unexplored, the unconscious, the romantic, the mysterious and the magical. There ...
( Category: United States May 9,2016 )
Greek Mythology by David Stuttard
epub |eng | 2016-05-04 | Author:David Stuttard

The battle between the Centaurs and Lapiths formed the subject matter for metopes on the south side of the fifth-century BC Parthenon at Athens. The apple bore an inscription: ‘for ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 5,2016 )
Ebert's Bests by Roger Ebert
epub |eng | 2013-01-03 | Author:Roger Ebert [Ebert, Roger]

The Best—Some Introductory Words Movie critics are required by unwritten law to create a list of the ten best films of every year, and although I avoid “best” lists whenever ...
( Category: Guides & Reviews May 4,2016 )
The Life of William Wordsworth by John Worthen
epub |eng | 2014-01-26 | Author:John Worthen

Grasmere was not simply a place which encouraged Wordsworth to write poems and pastorals. It reminded him not only of what others had lost, but of what he too had ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic May 4,2016 )
The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature by Gene Andrew Jarrett
epub |eng | 2013-12-19 | Author:Gene Andrew Jarrett

Scene 2 [Scene 2 changes, disclosing interior of cavern, damp fire, table, three or four rude stools. Some of fugitives sitting, some stretched before fire.] MAMMY: Wonder whar dat boy ...
( Category: Renaissance May 3,2016 )
Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume II by Suzuki Daisetsu Teitaro
epub |eng | | Author:Suzuki, Daisetsu Teitaro

Amida’s Original Prayer (or Vow) does not speak of good and evil, does not consider the abundance or lack of good deeds, does not choose between a pure and an ...
( Category: Asian May 3,2016 )
Treachery at Lancaster Gate by Anne Perry
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-03-22 | Author:Anne Perry

“I would be delighted to escape it,” Pitt replied ruefully. “But I don’t see how I can.” “What do you expect from me?” The firelight accentuated the shadows on Narraway’s ...
( Category: Historical Mystery May 2,2016 )
The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology by Hard Robin; Hard Robin;
epub |eng | 2011-09-24 | Author:Hard, Robin; Hard, Robin;

Theseus is acknowledged as heir to the Athenian throne, and sets off for Crete with the tribute Theseus was faced with perils of a more insidious nature on his arrival, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 30,2016 )
A Companion to Ancient Education by Bloomer W. Martin;
epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Bloomer, W. Martin;

2. Tullia Because few letters survive from Tullia’s early years, information is sparse. The schooling of a girl was brief, because she could expect to marry soon after puberty, though ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 30,2016 )
A Most Dangerous Book by Christopher B. Krebs
epub |ara, deu, eng, fra, ita | 2011-08-08 | Author:Christopher B. Krebs

8. A Germanic farmer in Justus Möser’s History of Osnabrück. Widener Library, Harvard College Library, 47528.1.10. A woodcut adorns the History of Osnabrück. Traditional and Tacitean, it looks back to ...
( Category: General April 25,2016 )
The Real Middle Earth by Brian Bates
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Bates

13. Shapeshifters In the real Middle-earth, it was believed that certain people could alter their shape and spirit from human to animal form. So that they appeared, sounded and behaved ...
( Category: European April 25,2016 )
Praeterita (Oxford World's Classics) by John Ruskin
epub |eng | 2012-10-05 | Author:John Ruskin [Ruskin, John]

CHAPTER VI THE CAMPO SANTO* 104. THE summer’s work of 1844, so far from advancing the design of ‘Modern Painters,’ had thrown me off it—first into fine botany, then into ...
( Category: Great Britain April 25,2016 )

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