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The Advocate (Paperback)
Charles Heavysege; Edited by The Perfect Library
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R352
Discovery Miles 3 520
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
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pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
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it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia
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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
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occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
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have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
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appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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The Advocate (Paperback)
Charles Heavysege; Edited by Douglas Lochhead
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R392
Discovery Miles 3 920
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The Advocate, an historical melodramatic romance in prose, which
makes use of English and French antagonisms in Lower Canada.
A five-act tragedy in blank verse. The play is founded upon the old
problem of an unnatural and ill-omened union between youth and age.
Charles Heavysege's chief and best-known work, the long-verse drama
and tragedy Saul, was published in Montreal in 1857. Coventry
Patmore, reviewing Saul in the North British Review, ranked it as
the greatest English poem published outside Great Britain.
Hawthorne, Emerson, and Longfellow were all enthusiastic in their
praise, and the play went into three editions. Saul is a drama of
135 scenes containing the remarkable character of the fallen angel
Malzah, who has been compared by critics to Shakespeare's Caliban.
Itis a powerful presentation of the tormented soul caught in a
world of order and universal degree. Its main interest is to be
found in the psychological frankness - Saul's recognition of his
demon resonates with the deeper implication of the recognition of
the doeppelganger - and in passages of sinewy verse written with a
directness that anticipates E.J. Pratt.
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