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A Ciceronian Sunburn : A Tudor Dialogue on Humanistic Rhetoric and Civic Poetics
ISBN: 9781570036149 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Ciceronian Sunburn reconsiders the complexion of Tudor poetics by demonstrating the ways in which poets and pedagogues appropriated the rhetorical brilliance of Cicero to inform their approaches to learning. By recasting the poetic texts of Edmund Spenser and Sir Philip Sidney as works that participated in sixteenth-century debates on learning, E. Armstrong challenges conventional views of Tudor poetics. He argues that the poetry of Spenser, Sidney, and others of the period reflects a more fully developed understanding of Ciceronian rhetoric than is found in the lectures, pedagogical...
A Ciceronian Sunburn reconsiders the complexion of Tudor poetics by demonstrating the ways in which poets and pedagogues appropriated the rhetorical b...
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206,94 zł |
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained
ISBN: 9781604590401 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Paradise Lost Milton tells the story of the fall of man, which encompasses a battle that rages across Heaven between God and Satan. Here are passion and innocence, victory and defeat, hope and despair. This is without a doubt the greatest epic poem ever written in the English language. Paradise Regained is often thought of as the companion to Milton's Epic Paradise Lost. Here Milton tells the full story of Christ's forty days' temptation in the desert with Satan. The detail and emotional impact are stunning. A book for the ages.
In Paradise Lost Milton tells the story of the fall of man, which encompasses a battle that rages across Heaven between God and Satan. Here are passio...
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71,75 zł |
From the Source of All, Inspired Poetry
ISBN: 9781844016099 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Why place yourself in a cage?' The cage door has always been open. Fly free! This is the first step each of us should take before our minds are ready to contemplate the 'source of all things' revealed in this collection of poems. Come with the poet on a soothing journey of exploration, both of the universe and of yourself, for each is an inseparable part of the other. Leave behind the material trappings of life and consider the stars, the trees, Heaven and Earth and, above all, the love of God. Share the vision of oneness and accept that we are all 'flowers in God's garden'.
'Why place yourself in a cage?' The cage door has always been open. Fly free! This is the first step each of us should take before our minds are ready...
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66,96 zł |
My Freedom Is My Right
ISBN: 9781844018529 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The inert wealth imbedded in my soil -
Leave it to me to carve in my own way! You cannot undo history. Yet if historys injustices permeate and distort the present, it is only fair to draw them to the worlds attention. Ambassador Aaron Maboyi has framed in vivid poetical terms his lament for Southern Africa, his distress at the blood spilt in order to gain freedom from white colonisers (hawks with pink eyes), and his grief at the continued exploitation of its enviable resources and neglected people. He uses well-loved landmarks and famous names from the past to underscore the... The inert wealth imbedded in my soil -
Leave it to me to carve in my own way! You cannot undo history. Yet if historys injustice... |
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66,96 zł |
Child's Song (Sea Time) and Other Poems
ISBN: 9781844018628 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hope, forgiveness, spiritual love, natural wonder: these are just some of the themes covered in this engaging collection of poems. Open your eyes to the changing seasons, consider the joy of Christmas, look out at the starlit sea, listen to the voice that whispers. Donald C Nicolson serves up his poetry for every season with a gentle style and spiritualism that echoes from the Scottish Highlands to the last sunset of summer. So let the Child's Song begin.
Hope, forgiveness, spiritual love, natural wonder: these are just some of the themes covered in this engaging collection of poems. Open your eyes to t...
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66,96 zł |
A Country Entrapped
ISBN: 9781844018680 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why does the Third World
Hate us so much? The American citizen asked himself As he ran along the street. In the aftermath of 9/11 and the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York, America learnt a lot about itself. Just who was to blame for this apocalyptic disaster is the subject of the first of these two extended poems by a Sri Lankan Tamil, someone who instinctively aligns himself with the Third World in the quotation above. His second poem, The Song of a Liberated Zone, is focused on north-east Sri Lanka (Ceylon), home to the oppressed Tamil people. The Tamils could be likened... Why does the Third World
Hate us so much? The American citizen asked himself As he ran along the street. In the aftermath of 9/11... |
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66,96 zł |
Social Misfit: A Collection of Poems
ISBN: 9781847470201 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A Collection of Poems"
By Debra C Rufini ISBN: 978 1 84747 020 1 Description Urged to deal with hard-hitting issues in written form, Debra C Rufini is sensitive towards such matters of mental health, suffering, pain, depression, confusion, intolerance, people's emotions and experiences. This volume should be read with concern and empathy for the victims it involves. About the Author As a qualified hypnotherapist / psychoanalyst and ex-Samaritan, Debra truly appreciates the need for encouragement as opposed... "A Collection of Poems"
By Debra C Rufini ISBN: 978 1 84747 020 1 Descriptio... |
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102,31 zł |
Fundamentals of the Art of Poetry
ISBN: 9781850758372 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fundamentals of the Art of Poetry takes the reader on a journey that sets out with a consideration of the various arts humankind has created, and then focuses on the special art of poetry: what poetry is, what it does and must do in order to 'succeed' for whom it does what it does, and, in detail, how it goes about doing what it tries to do. Twenty-two chapters deal with subjects like 'The Constituencies for Art', 'What Meaning Means', 'Acceptable and Unacceptable Propositions', 'The Right Word in the Right Place', 'The Sounds that Matter in Poetry', 'Energetic Metaphor: the Major Figure'... Fundamentals of the Art of Poetry takes the reader on a journey that sets out with a consideration of the various arts humankind has created, and t... |
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403,79 zł |
Lucan: Bello Civili I
ISBN: 9781853993572 / Angielski / Miękka / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edition is of Book I of Lucan's epic poem, De Bello Civili, sometimes also known as the Pharsalia, a great work of the Silver Age of Latin literature. Book I summarises the background to the civil war between Caesar and Pompey and takes the narrative as far as Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon and the outbreak of panic in the city of Rome, including many signs and portents. This edition includes an extensive introduction, the Latin text, notes on the text, critical apparatus and index. This edition is of Book I of Lucan's epic poem, De Bello Civili, sometimes also known as the Pharsalia, a great work of the Silver A... |
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131,18 zł |
John Donne: Selected Letters: John Donne
ISBN: 9781857545616 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is in the letters of John Donne (1571/2-1631) that the vulnerable candour underlying the vagaries of the poems is manifest. They are, as it were, the historical and spiritual substructure of his fluent and indefatigable imagination.
It is in the letters of John Donne (1571/2-1631) that the vulnerable candour underlying the vagaries of the poems is manifest. They are, as it were, t...
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68,81 zł |
Sing-Song
ISBN: 9781869402952 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of poetry deals with the domestic life of a family, mother, father, and two small children, and in particular about the grueling experience of eczema from which the little girl suffers. Told from the mother s point of view and set amid moves of house, the pressures on a bicultural household, and endless fruitless encounters with healers of many kinds, the poetry turns into a moving and profoundly recognizable picture of the strains, anxieties, fatigue, and desperation of parenthood.
" This collection of poetry deals with the domestic life of a family, mother, father, and two small children, and in particular about the grueling exper...
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79,43 zł |
Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty: New Poems
ISBN: 9781869403492 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of poetry features five extended poems that explore the concept of beauty and the nature of language, discussing serious philosophical ideas withzest, energy, wit, and humor. A unique volume featuring remembered and misremembered song lyrics from John Lennon, Lou Reed, Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, Ryan Adams, and Courtney Love, among others, it alsoincludes fragments from philosophers and poets of the sublime, especially William Wordsworth and John Ruskin, and from religious texts such as the Bible and the Tao-Te Ching. Through glimpses of imperfection, Wedde...
This collection of poetry features five extended poems that explore the concept of beauty and the nature of language, discussing serious philosophical...
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90,06 zł |
Magical Dilemma of Victor Neuburg, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9781869928797 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A humane biography of Aleister Crowley's disciple, lover, fellow magician, poet & seer, who was the literary god father of Dylan Thomas. This book is a record of one man's extraordinary journey to magical enlightenment and the story of the Aleister Crowley, the magus who summoned Neuburg to join him in the quest.
A humane biography of Aleister Crowley's disciple, lover, fellow magician, poet & seer, who was the literary god father of Dylan Thomas. This book is ...
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105,29 zł |
Ship of Birth PB
ISBN: 9781903039632 / Angielski / Miękka / 61 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Irish poet Greg Delanty presents a series of poems that explore the birth of a child. These poems log the days before and after a child is born, detailing the wonder and trepidation of parents, the growth of the child, and speculation on the soul and spirit. Written from the vantage point of a father his hopes, fears, awe, and perplexity these poems register the seen and unseen interconnections of place, people, the natural world, and the continuity of the past with the present and the future.
" Irish poet Greg Delanty presents a series of poems that explore the birth of a child. These poems log the days before and after a child is born, detai...
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42,24 zł |
The Eye of the Earth
ISBN: 9789781291395 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A lyrical and panoramic body of poems from the prize-winning poet, informed by a revolutionary vision about the earth, our home.
A lyrical and panoramic body of poems from the prize-winning poet, informed by a revolutionary vision about the earth, our home.
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152,68 zł |
Feminizing Chaucer
ISBN: 9780859916134 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women are a major subject of Chaucer's writings, and their place in his work has attracted much recent critical attention. Feminizing Chaucer investigates Chaucer's thinking about women, and re-assesses it in the light of developments in feminist criticism. It explores Chaucer's handling of gender issues, of power roles, of misogynist stereotypes and the writer's responsibility for perpetuating them, and the complex meshing of activity and passivity in human experience. Mann argues that the traditionally 'female' virtues of patience and pity are central to Chaucer's moral ethos, and that this...
Women are a major subject of Chaucer's writings, and their place in his work has attracted much recent critical attention. Feminizing Chaucer investig...
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126,14 zł |
Six White Doves & One Pink Rose
ISBN: 9781847474582 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Description This is a collection of prayers and poems created over many years to offer comfort and above all self-belief. This collection gives an amazing perception that everybody has certain pathways. As much as we try to avoid the wrong pathways, we very often tend to head straight for them. This book and the poetry it contains reflects Josephine's experiences from caring for an ill son, to major operations and disability. Many of the poems allude to Josephine's strong religious identity. This is an extremely strong collection of poetry from an extremely strong woman. About the... Description This is a collection of prayers and poems created over many years to offer comfort and above all self-belief. This collection gives ... |
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96,62 zł |
A Life Less Beautiful: Echoes of Love, Life and Immortality
ISBN: 9781434304957 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of poetry, prose and philosophy written over more than a decade by the author. The content of the work reflects the attitudes and observations of a contemporary soul, but is focused on the emotional atrocities humans inflict upon one another and the guardians we all must find to save us.
A collection of poetry, prose and philosophy written over more than a decade by the author. The content of the work reflects the attitudes and observa...
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109,28 zł |
The Wonderful Kindness of the Stripper's Ass and Other Poems: A Marvelous Book of Great Novelty
ISBN: 9780976323044 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,28 zł |
Body and Soul in Coleridge's Notebooks, 1827-1834: 'What Is Life?'
ISBN: 9780230545229 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through an examination of his later personal notebooks, this study explores the reciprocal effects that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's scientific explorations, philosophical convictions, theological beliefs, and states of health exerted upon his perceptions of human Body/Soul relations, both in life and after death.
Through an examination of his later personal notebooks, this study explores the reciprocal effects that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's scientific explorati...
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194,08 zł |