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The almost universal adulation given Edmund Waller in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- an adulation which, often as not, attached to his reform of poetry -- has been commonly accepted with little question of the grounds on which it is based. In this essay Alexander Ward Allison presents for the first time a specific analysis of the changes from Jacobean modes which Waller made, suggesting in the course of his analysis that the seventeenth century saw not a dissociation of sensibility, but rather a new fusion, of which Waller is a type.

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"Soldiers, Saints and Sinners: Stories of Long Ago" is a series of short stories about West Tennessee history, stretching from the pioneer days to more recent times.
The characters in these stories range from Civil War soldiers -- and a sniper, "Confederate Long Rifle;" to Lucy Holcombe, the "Sweetheart of the Confederacy;" to a con artist posing as a Baptist preacher, "The Holy Cheat;" to Roscoe Turner, amazing aviator and his pet lion Gilmore, "The Lion Who Flew." Gilmore flew all over the nation and spent his last years sunning himself on an African lion farm.
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