Including the classics of the genre as well as rare period pieces by African Americans and women, and northern and southern patriotic verse and songs, The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry paints the background of the conflict and its literature in Richard Marius's renowned prose, with each poem introduced by a compelling vignette. What emerges is an unparalleled pageant of the war in all its power and sentimentality; the anger of its participants and their yearning for peace.
Including the classics of the genre as well as rare period pieces by African Americans and women, and northern and southern patriotic verse and songs,...
Few figures in history have defined their time as dramatically as Martin Luther. And few books have captured the spirit of such a figure as truly as this robust and eloquent life of Luther. A highly regarded historian and biographer and a gifted novelist and playwright, Richard Marius gives us a dazzling portrait of the German reformer--his inner compulsions, his struggle with himself and his God, the gestation of his theology, his relations with contemporaries, and his responses to opponents. Focusing in particular on the productive years 1516-1525, Marius' detailed account of Luther's...
Few figures in history have defined their time as dramatically as Martin Luther. And few books have captured the spirit of such a figure as truly a...
Over the centuries, biographers of Thomas More have frequently praised him and made him an example for their own times. He was a man for all seasons. This tudor prelate and Lord Chancellor of England shared human qualities identifiable in all ages - pride, love, ambition, generosity, hypocrisy and greed. He was less thancommon because he was witty and a great storyteller - possibly the best between Chaucer and Shakespeare. He was a true Renaissance man with the contradictions such praise imposes on a towering figure. In this biography, Sir Thomas More, the martyr and brilliant public figure,...
Over the centuries, biographers of Thomas More have frequently praised him and made him an example for their own times. He was a man for all seasons. ...
