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This fascinating book examines what sixteen radical and
conservative, famous and notorious British women wrote about their
sex in the 1790s. It offers the most comprehensive survey of what
they thought about their fellow women with regard to love, sexual
desire and marriage; their domestic roles and their engagement in
the 'public' sphere; and issues of gender and female abilities
including sensibility and genius. How contemporary reviewers
divided women writers into 'unsex'd' and 'proper' is investigated,
as is the issue of whether they attempted to exclude women from
certain kinds of writing. The book reveals the depth of female
complaint but contends that women did not passively submit.
Conservative and radicals alike sought to extend their sphere of
activity, to reform men, challenge gender stereotypes and propose
that a woman should be a self for herself and her God rather than
for her husband. -- .
This book is an ambitious attempt to separate what is actually
known (and can be known) about Mozart from the many myths and
legends that have grown up about his life, character, and death. It
subjects individual myths to critical and scholarly
scrutiny-weighing the evidence on which it is based, and critically
assessing the reliability of that evidence. The author first
considers the question of Mozart's death in 1791 at the age of 35,
a subject that intrigued his contemporaries and has continued to
fascinate posterity. No other aspect of Mozart's life has
engendered so many dramatic and colorful myths. The stage play and
movie Amadeus incorporated virtually all these myths and, indeed,
most of the other myths associated with Mozart. In the remainder of
this book, the author treats in similar fashion other legends
relating to Mozart's alleged maturity, drinking, extravagance,
unreliability, womanizing, and professional failure. There is also
much material on the nature of Mozart's genius, the influence of
Freemasonry on his work, and the value of his last compositions.
The book is illustrated with 8 pages of halftones and line
drawings.
Introduces different kinds of poems, including headline, letter, recipe, list, and monologue, and provides exercises in writing poems based on both memory and imagination.
This book, focusing on the agriculture sector, provides useful
analysis of the green economy implementation context and a
practical framework for implementing vegetable crop production
green economy projects. The book addresses a distinct gap, as there
are currently no guidelines available for planning and implementing
green economy projects in the agriculture sector. The book combines
information from desktop reviews and field research on vegetable
production in a green economy context in South Africa in order to
bridge the gap between the theoretical green economy concept and
practical implementation issues that would be encountered at the
project level. It includes a step-by-step process for translating
abstract green economy principles into tangible projects on the
ground, so that the potential benefits of a green economy are
realizable.
Born the year World War I began, acclaimed poet William Stafford
(1914-1993) spent World War II in a camp for conscientious
objectors. Throughout a century of conflict he remained convinced
that wars simply don't work. In his writings, Stafford showed it is
possible-and crucial-to think independently when fanatics act, and
to speak for reconciliation when nations take sides. He believed it
was a failure of imagination to only see two options: to fight or
to run away. This book gathers the evidence of a lifetime's
commitment to nonviolence, including an account of Stafford's
near-hanging at the hands of American patriots. In excerpts from
his daily journal from 1951-1991, Stafford uses questions,
alternative views of history, lyric invitations, and direct
assessments of our political habits to suggest another way than
war. Many of these statements are published here for the first
time, together with a generous selection of Stafford's pacifist
poems and interviews from elusive sources. Stafford provides an
alternative approach to a nation's military habit, aggressive
instincts, and our legacy of armed ventures in Europe, the Pacific,
Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and beyond.
"In our time there has been no poet who revived human hearts and
spirits more convincingly than William Stafford." --Naomi Shihab
Nye
Some time when the river is ice ask me
mistakes I have made. Ask me whether
what I have done is my life.
--from "Ask Me" In celebration of the poet's centennial, "Ask Me"
collects one hundred of William Stafford's essential poems. As a
conscientious objector during World War II, while assigned to
Civilian Public Service camps Stafford began his daily writing
practice, a lifelong early-morning ritual of witness. His poetry
reveals the consequences of violence, the daily necessity of moral
decisions, and the bounty of art. Selected and with a note by Kim
Stafford, "Ask Me" presents the best from a profound and original
American voice.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have 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 this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
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++++ Scraps Of Poesy, By W.S. Finch And W. King William Stafford
Finch, William King (of Edmonton.)
Bestselling author Robert Bly selects his favorite works by the award-winning poet William Stafford.
Writing the Australian Crawl presents a new attitude toward the
teaching and practice of writing-a writer isn't simply a craftsman
with something to say and the skill to say it. Rather, a writer
brings those attributes into a process that is filled with exciting
emergencies and opportunities. In the end, something emerge that is
greater than the sum of its parts.
The years of the first industrial revolution saw a remarkable
flowering of radical social criticism in Britain. This is a study
of the ideas that emerged then and of the social and intellectual
conditions from which they developed. Dr Stafford begins in Part I
by presenting what will be seen as a very valuable general account
of the historical and cultural setting, showing how the language of
social debate had been affected by intellectual developments and
the increasingly rapid transformations of society. Then in Part II
he discusses ten major critics of British society, from Thomas
Spence to William Cobbett, who represent a wide range of political
opinion from anarchism to Tory radicalism. Dr. Stafford takes a key
text by each author, sets out its argument, and analyzes it both
critically and historically, showing the particular influences that
shaped it and revealing the ways in which the social thought of the
time resembles or diverges from our own. This book will help to
recover from unwarranted neglect this important tradition of
writing that did much to form subsequent thinking about society. It
will make a valuable contribution to the study of the literature
and the social and intellectual history of the period.
A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical
works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles,
interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the
poetics of a new generation.
In this fourth collection of reflections on writing and the writing
life, the late William Stafford's lifelong refusal to separate his
work from the task of living responsibly -- "What a person is shows
up in what a person does" -- rings clear.
The Answers Are Inside the Mountains collects unpublished
interviews, poems, articles, aphorisms, and writing exercises from
this great American man of letters and hugely prolific author, who
kept a journal for nearly half a century and produced over 20,000
poems -- a staggering output by any standard.
The book begins with the words "To overwhelm by rightness," a
phrase evoking the two demands Stafford made on himself: to write
daily, and to live uprightly. The Answers Are Inside the Mountains
lives up to those deceptively simple ethics, and confirms William
Stafford's enduringly important voice for our uncertain age.
William Stafford (1914-93) authored more than thirty-five books of
poetry and prose, including the highly acclaimed Writing the
Australian Crawl, You Must Revise Your Life, Crossing Unmarked
Snow: Further Views on the Writer's Vocation, and Traveling Through
the Dark, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry.
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