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Contains writings about John Donne from 1873 to 1923, including Henry Morley, Edmund Gosse, W.F. Collier, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Eliot Norton, Henry Augustin Beers, Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and many others. Together these works present a record of how, from the nineteenth century onwards, critics viewed Donne, and how he became part of today's literary canon. eBook available with sample pages: 0203416929
Gerard Manley Hopkins initially planned to become a poet-artist.
For five years he trained his eye, learned about contemporary art
and architecture, and made friends in the Pre-Raphaelite circle. In
her fascinating and beautifully illustrated book, Catherine
Phillips, whose knowledge of Hopkins's poems is second to none,
uses letters, new archival material, and contemporary publications
to reconstruct the visual world Hopkins knew between 1862 and 1889,
and especially in the 1860s, with its illustrated journals, art
exhibitions, Gothic architecture, photographic shows, and changing
art criticism.
Phillips identifies three artistic contexts for the Hopkins's
life: his childhood circle of artistic relatives who were important
in shaping his early vision; his friends at university and the
criticism he absorbed while there that inflected his view as a
young man; and the mature religious beliefs which came to govern
his understanding of a visual world interconnected with an eternal
one.
With chapters devoted to Hopkins own drawings, and to visual
theories of the time, Phillips is able to suggests fresh links
between this visual world and the startling originality of
Hopkins's mature writing that will impact radically on our
understanding of Hopkins's practice as a poet.
Contains writings about John Donne from 1873 to 1923, including
Henry Morley, Edmund Gosse, W.F. Collier, Rudyard Kipling, Charles
Eliot Norton, Henry Augustin Beers, Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, Ezra
Pound, T.S. Eliot, and many others.
Together these works present a record of how, from the nineteenth
century onwards, critics viewed Donne, and how he became part of
today's literary canon.
Saving More Than Seeds advances understandings of seed-people
relations, with particular focus on seed saving. The practice of
reusing and exchanging seeds provides foundation for food
production and allows humans and seed to adapt together in dynamic
socionatural conditions. But the practice and its practitioners are
easily taken for granted, even as they are threatened by
neoliberalisation. Combining original ethnographic research with
investigation of an evolving corporate seed order, this book
reveals seed saving not only as it occurs in fields and gardens but
also as it associates with genebanking, genetic engineering,
intellectual property rights, and agrifood regulations. Drawing on
diverse social sciences literatures, Phillips illustrates ongoing
practices of thinking, feeling, and acting with seeds, raising
questions about what seed-people relations should accomplish and
how different ways of relating might be pursued to change
collective futures.
Cultural geography has a long and proud tradition of research into
human-plant relations. However, until recently, that tradition has
been somewhat disconnected from conceptual advances in the social
sciences, even those to which cultural geographers have made
significant contributions. With a number of important exceptions,
plant studies have been less explicitly part of more-than-human
geographies than have animal studies. This book aims to redress
this gap, recognising plants and their multiple engagements with
and beyond humans. Plants are not only fundamental to human
survival, they play a key role in many of the most important
environmental political issues of the century, including biofuels,
carbon economies and food security. This innovative collection
explores themes of belonging, practices and places. Together, the
chapters suggest new kinds of 'vegetal politics', documenting both
collaborative and conflictual relations between humans, plants and
others. They open up new spaces of political action and
subjectivity, challenging political frames that are confined to
humans. The book also raises methodological questions and
challenges for future research. This book was published as a
special issue of Social and Economic Geography.
What happens when you want to take a holiday, or even just pop out
for a drink, and your dog looks up at you with those expectant
eyes? Do you know which pubs welcome muddy paws with a bowl of
water and a dog biscuit? Or where you and your dog can both enjoy a
comfortable overnight stay? From the editors of the UK's No 1
travel guide, the much loved Good Pub Guide, comes the latest
edition of the Good Guide to Dog Friendly Pubs, Hotels and
B&Bs. Featuring fully updated information, the guide provides
you with hundreds of wonderful places in the UK to drink, eat and
stay with your pet. With this book to hand, there's no need to
leave your dog at home. Faithful friends deserve a break too!
Saving More Than Seeds advances understandings of seed-people
relations, with particular focus on seed saving. The practice of
reusing and exchanging seeds provides foundation for food
production and allows humans and seed to adapt together in dynamic
socionatural conditions. But the practice and its practitioners are
easily taken for granted, even as they are threatened by
neoliberalisation. Combining original ethnographic research with
investigation of an evolving corporate seed order, this book
reveals seed saving not only as it occurs in fields and gardens but
also as it associates with genebanking, genetic engineering,
intellectual property rights, and agrifood regulations. Drawing on
diverse social sciences literatures, Phillips illustrates ongoing
practices of thinking, feeling, and acting with seeds, raising
questions about what seed-people relations should accomplish and
how different ways of relating might be pursued to change
collective futures.
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Gerard Manley Hopkins; Edited by Catherine Phillips
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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) is now recognized as a major poet
of striking originality. He is widely admired for his particularly
vivid expression of feeling, from the religious ecstasy of `he
Blessed Virgin' to the torments of his loneliness and despair in
`No Worst', and for conveying with wonderful freshness his sense of
natural beauty in such poems as `The Windhover' and `Pied Beauty'.
This selection, chosen from the award-winning Oxford Authors
critical edition, includes all his major English poems and most of
the larger fragments. The poems are supported with extensive notes
and a useful introduction to Hopkins's life and poetry. ABOUT THE
SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made
available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable
features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
A sound knowledge of anatomy and physiology is an essential basis
for the effective clinical treatment of companion animals and farm
animals alike. The fourth edition of this bestselling book
continues to provide a comprehensive description of the anatomy and
physiology of dogs and cats. The book builds on these foundations
with detailed descriptions of exotic small species including birds,
and domestic farm animals, including cows, sheep and pigs, as well
as the horse. The text: Contains detailed descriptions of the
systematic anatomy and physiology of a wide range of animal
species. Covers clinical conditions and disease examples related to
the individual body systems. Includes applied anatomy tips that
relate theory to clinical practice. Is written by expert authors
with a wealth of veterinary, animal science and teaching
experience. Includes more clinical application examples and
question and answer tests to reinforce student learning. Has been
updated with more information for animal science students. This
text provides an essential basis for all those embarking upon a
veterinary, animal science or animal management career.
Hopkins's letters are his secular confessional, and if we wish to
understand the man and his poetry, this is material we cannot
ignore. This is where his mind allowed itself its most expansive
and unfettered expression.
This edition adds 43 letters to the total printed by Claude Colleer
Abbott in his three-volume major edition of the mid-twentieth
century. It further improves on the earlier editions in four ways:
in its accuracy, in its order, in its inclusiveness, and in the
thoroughness of its annotation. It is a completely new presentation
of the letters, set out on radically different lines from earlier
editions. It includes all the letters from Hopkins, but adds all
the extant letters which were written to him. It is set out in a
single chronological sequence, placing all the replies and queries
at their appropriate place within the correspondence, thus
providing as far as can be achieved, a narrative sequence. This
acts in many ways as an informal intellectual biography of Hopkins,
tracking his early ideas, his anxieties, his conversion, his
friendships, his priesthood, his disappointments, and his ideas on
literature and life. The transcriptions not only revise a large
number of readings, but include all legible deletions and
corrections, allowing the reader to follow the hesitancies and
adjustments of Hopkins's mind.
Like most nineteenth-century poets, Hopkins never published a
theoretical account of his work and his thoughts on poetry, but
what he had to say can be found in these letters, and their
extensive use by critics and poets indicates their richness as a
source of ideas on Hopkins's poetry and on poetry and poetics in
general.
Cultural geography has a long and proud tradition of research into
human-plant relations. However, until recently, that tradition has
been somewhat disconnected from conceptual advances in the social
sciences, even those to which cultural geographers have made
significant contributions. With a number of important exceptions,
plant studies have been less explicitly part of more-than-human
geographies than have animal studies. This book aims to redress
this gap, recognising plants and their multiple engagements with
and beyond humans. Plants are not only fundamental to human
survival, they play a key role in many of the most important
environmental political issues of the century, including biofuels,
carbon economies and food security. This innovative collection
explores themes of belonging, practices and places. Together, the
chapters suggest new kinds of 'vegetal politics', documenting both
collaborative and conflictual relations between humans, plants and
others. They open up new spaces of political action and
subjectivity, challenging political frames that are confined to
humans. The book also raises methodological questions and
challenges for future research. This book was published as a
special issue of Social and Economic Geography.
This authoritative edition was originally published in the
acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of
Frank Kermode. It brings together all Hopkins's poetry and a
generous selection of his prose writings to give the essence of his
work and thinking. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was one of the
most innovative of nineteenth-century poets. During his tragically
short life he strove to reconcile his religious and artistic
vocations, and this edition demonstrates the range of his
interests. It includes all his poetry, from best-known works such
as 'The Wreck of the Deutschland' and ''The Windhover' to
translations, foreign language poems, plays, and verse fragments,
and the recently discovered poem 'Consule Jones'. In addition there
are excerpts from Hopkins's journals, letters, and spiritual
writings. The poems are printed in chronological order to show
Hopkins's changing preoccupations, and all the texts have been
established from original manuscripts. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over
100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest
range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume
reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most
accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including
expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to
clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and
much more.
The Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg has one of the world's great
collections of Greek vases. In addition to the numerous vases and
fragments found on Russian territory, it includes those found in
Italy and acquired directly or purchased from other collectors,
most notably the Marquis Campana, Antonio Giuseppe Pizzati and
Countess Laval. The history of this part of the Hermitage
collection of vases has never before been told in full. Taking
Ludolf Stephani's catalogue of 1869, Die Vasensammlung der
Kaiserlichen Ermitage, as a starting point and studying a vast body
of previously ignored archive documents, the authors (two of them
curators of Greek vases in the Hermitage Museum) follow the
formation of the collection up to 1869, establishing its sources
and identifying a number of previously under-estimated or ignored
Russian collectors of antiquities. The Hermitage collection is set
not only within the Russian cultural context but within the wider
picture of a pan-European interest in antiquities and their
display. Since Stephani's catalogue is still the main source for
scholars of vases and vase collections, the book includes a
valuable list of addenda and corrigenda to the provenances he
provides for vases from private collections (those found during
excavations on Russian territory are largely correct).
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
Based on a folktale called "The Priest's Soul," which Yeats
first encountered in 1888, The Hour-Glass was written as both a
play in prose and a drama in verse over the course of more than
thirty years. This volume brings together all extant manuscripts of
The Hour-Glass, from a handwritten three-page fragment of the 1902
prose version to Yeats's typescripts of the 1922 verse
rendition.
In 1840, French novelist Theophile Gautier was hired by the journal
"La Presse" to write regular installments of a travelogue of his
journey to and around Spain. Gautier recorded his experiences and
impressions and the result was the 1845 book "Voyage en Espagne" -
later translated into English as "A Romantic in Spain". For
Gautier, Spain promised the allure of an exotic and passionate
culture; it was a revelation, he said later, like discovering his
true home, the native land of his spirit. Gautier covered the olive
groves of Andalucia, the vibrant street life of Madrid, the central
plains of La Mancha, and the Moorish buildings of Seville and
Cordoba. Gautier, travelling by mule, carriage, or wagon, came into
contact with a rich panoply of people and places. Gautier reveals a
Spain in transition, emerging from civil war and a feudal past into
the modern world.
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