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'The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day ...' Thomas Gray's
'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' has been loved and admired
throughout the centuries. First circulated to a select group of
friends, it was rushed to official publication in 1751 in order to
avoid pirated copies being sold without the young poet's
permission. Praised by Samuel Johnson, reprinted over and over
again in Gray's lifetime and recited by generations of school
children, it is one of the most famous poems in the English
language. This edition reproduces the exquisite wood engravings
made by Agnes Miller Parker in 1938. Parker visited the churchyard
at St Giles, Stoke Poges, where the poem is set, in order to make
her sketches, and all thirty-two stanzas of the poem are
accompanied by detailed full-page illustrations. Commemorating the
250th anniversary of the poet's death, this edition will not only
bring new readers to the 'Elegy' but will also appeal to those
already familiar with its riches.
Text and facing translation of one of the most important chronicles
of medieval England. In 1355, Sir Thomas Gray, a Northumbrian
knight and constable of Norham castle, was ambushed and captured by
the Scots. Imprisoned in Edinburgh castle, he whiled away the hours
by writing a chronicle charting the history of Britain from the
Creation. The bulk of the work, written in Anglo-Norman French, is
based on existing sources. However, for the section from the reign
of Edward I onwards - the portion edited here - Gray relied partly
on his own memories, and the stories told him by his father
(constable of Norham before him), relating their experiences in the
Scottish and French wars. The first known historical work to have
been written in England by a member of the lay nobility since the
Conquest, the Scalacronica provides a unique perspective on the
course of English politics in the fourteenth century, and an
insight into the worldview of a militarily active member of
England's governing class.It is a vital source for all those
interested in the history of the period. The text, with facing-page
translation, has been newly edited from the sole surviving
manuscript of the Scalacronica; the volume includes extensive
historical notes; and an introduction describing the careers of
Thomas Gray and his father, and the written sources used in the
compilation of this part of the work.
Wave Pipelining: Theory and CMOS Implementation provides a coherent
presentation of the theory of wave pipelined operation of digital
circuits and discusses practical design techniques for the
realization of wave pipelined circuits in CMOS technology. Wave
pipeling is a timing methodology used in digital systems to enhance
performance while conserving the number of data registers used.
This is achieved by applying new data to the inputs of a
combinatorial logic block before the previous outputs are
available. In contrast to conventional pipelining, system
performance is limited by differences in maximum and minimum
circuit delay rather than maximum circuit delays. Realization of
practical systems using this technique requires accurate system
level and circuit level timing analysis. At the system level,
timing constraints identifying valid regions of operation for
correct clocking of wave pipelined circuits are presented. Both
single stage and multiple stage systems including feedback are
considered. At the circuit level, since performance is determined
by the maximum circuit delay difference, highly accurate estimates
of both maximum and minimum delays are needed.Thus, timing analysis
based on traditional gate delay models is not sufficient. For CMOS
circuits, data dependent delay models considering the effect of
simultaneous multiple input switchings must be used. An algorithm
using these delay models for accurate analysis of small to medium
sized circuits is implemented in a prototype timing analyzer, XTV.
Results are given for a set of benchmark circuits.
Wave Pipelining: Theory and CMOS Implementation provides a coherent
presentation of the theory of wave pipelined operation of digital
circuits and discusses practical design techniques for the
realization of wave pipelined circuits in CMOS technology. Wave
pipeling is a timing methodology used in digital systems to enhance
performance while conserving the number of data registers used.
This is achieved by applying new data to the inputs of a
combinatorial logic block before the previous outputs are
available. In contrast to conventional pipelining, system
performance is limited by differences in maximum and minimum
circuit delay rather than maximum circuit delays. Realization of
practical systems using this technique requires accurate system
level and circuit level timing analysis. At the system level,
timing constraints identifying valid regions of operation for
correct clocking of wave pipelined circuits are presented. Both
single stage and multiple stage systems including feedback are
considered. At the circuit level, since performance is determined
by the maximum circuit delay difference, highly accurate estimates
of both maximum and minimum delays are needed. Thus, timing
analysis based on traditional gate delay models is not sufficient.
For CMOS circuits, data dependent delay models considering the
effect of simultaneous multiple input switchings must be used. An
algorithm using these delay models for accurate analysis of small
to medium sized circuits is implemented in a prototype timing
analyzer, XTV. Results are given for a set of benchmark circuits.
Wallace Stevens was not only one of America's outstanding
modernist poets but also a successful insurance lawyer--a fact that
continues to intrigue many readers. Though Stevens tried hard to
separate his poetry from his profession, legal theorist Thomas Grey
shows that he did not ultimately succeed. After stressing how
little connection appears on the surface between the two parts of
Stevens's life, Grey argues that in its pragmatic account of human
reasoning, the poetry distinctively illuminates the workings of the
law.
In this important extension of the recent law-and-literature
movement, Grey reveals Stevens as a philosophical poet and
implicitly a pragmatist legal theorist, who illustrates how human
thought proceeds through "assertion, qualification, and qualified
reassertion," and how reason and passion fuse together in the act
of interpretation. Above all, Stevens's poetry proves a liberating
antidote to the binary logic that is characteristic of legal
theory: one side of a case is right, the other wrong; conduct is
either lawful or unlawful.
At the same time as he discovers in Stevens a pragmatist
philosopher of law, Grey offers a strikingly new perspective on the
poetry itself. In the poems that develop Stevens's
"reality-imagination complex"--poems often criticized as remote,
apolitical, and hermetic--Grey finds a body of work that not only
captivates the reader but also provides a unique instrument for
scrutinizing the thought processes of lawyers and judges in their
exercise of social power.
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Thomas Gray, John Talbot
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Thomas Gray, John Talbot
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