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De Gruyter Krankheit und lyrische Selbstsorge
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De Gruyter Martyrdom, Mysticism and Dissent: The Poetry of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
Book SynopsisThis book is the first extensive research on the role of poetry during the Iranian Revolution (1979) and the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). How can poetry, especially peaceful medieval Sufi poems, be applied to exalt violence, to present death as martyrdom, and to process war traumas? Examining poetry by both Islamic revolutionary and established dissident poets, it demonstrates how poetry spurs people to action, even leading them to sacrifice their lives. The book's originality lies in fresh analyses of how themes such as martyrdom and violence, and mystical themes such as love and wine, are integrated in a vehemently political context, while showing how Shiite ritual such as the pilgrimage to Mecca clash with Saudi Wahhabi appreciations. A distinguishing quality of the book is its examination of how martyrdom was instilled in the minds of Iranians through poetry, employing Sufi themes, motifs and doctrines to justify death. Such inculcation proved effective in mobilising people to the front, ready to sacrifice their lives. As such, the book is a must for readers interested in Iranian culture and history, in Sufi poetry, in martyrdom and war poetry. Those involved with Middle Eastern Studies, Iranian Studies, Literary Studies, Political Philosophy and Religious Studies will benefit from this book. "From his own memories and expert research, the author gives us a ravishing account of 'a poetry stained with blood, violence and death'. His brilliantly layered analysis of modern Persian poetry shows how it integrates political and religious ideology and motivational propaganda with age-old mystical themes for the most traumatic of times for Iran." (Alan Williams, Research Professor of Iranian Studies, University of Manchester) "When Asghar Seyed Gohrab, a highly prolific academician, publishes a new book, you can be certain he has paid attention to an exciting and largely unexplored subject. Martyrdom, Mysticism and Dissent: The Poetry of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) is no exception in the sense that he combines a few different cultural, religious, mystic, and political aspects of Iranian life to present a vivid picture and thorough analysis of the development and effect of what became known as the revolutionary poetry of the late 1970s and early 1980s. This time, he has even enriched his narrative by inserting his voice into his analysis. It is a thoughtful book and a fantastic read." (Professor Kamran Talattof, University of Arizona)
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De Gruyter Quellendokumentation
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Meta Brasil Quimera
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Clube de Autores Ácidos Alcalicentos I
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Raat Pashmine Ki (Hindi)
Book SynopsisThe book is a compilation of some of Gulzar''s poetry. Gulzar''s songs, Gulzar''s dialogues, Gulzar''s films, all have one quality-they carry the rasa of poetry because basically he remains a poet.
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Ian Randle Publishers,Jamaica From Behind The Counter
Book SynopsisEaston Lee was born to a Chinese father and a Jamaican mother of mixed racial heritage in the 1930s at Wait-abit, Trelawny, Jamaica. The family lived in several villages and towns as his parents 'moved shop' in search of a livelihood. Life was different then - no television, no telephones, inadequate road systems, no radio. The life of rural communities revolved and evolved around the church, the school and the village shop. The majority of these shops were owned and operated by Chinese families. Lee recalls that many evenings during his elementary schooldays were spent under the counter of his parents' shop so he could be near to his mother as she attended to customers and helped him with homework. Customers, unaware of his presence, often discussed the village happenings and their private business in the most intimate details, giving him insight and information not otherwise available. His mother who was born at the run of the century fed him with stories and legends she had gleaned from her older relatives. An avid reader and a great storyteller, she often entertained her children and their friends with fascinating tales she had read or had heard in her childhood. His attention later turned to his Chinese heritage with his father and other Chinese relatives providing the link to that source. He found to his amazement that those teachings were not all that different from those of other sources, and in some instances were identical. This lively interest in and knowledge of Jamaican folklore which began in his schooldays was broadened and enhanced when, in adulthood, he went to work with Jamaica Social Welfare Commission, now the Social Development Commission, in a job which took him to every corner of the country.
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Independently Published The Final Chant The Sea Remembers
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Striking Back
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Evil Without Theatre
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Serenade
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Independently Published The UK Immigration System
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Lost in Capitalist Abuse
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp The Wealth of a Penny
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp ...and Bits and Bits
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Linsaisissable être ou la quête de lautre
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Words are not just Words
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Independently Published Stories on the Wall
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp At an Odd Angle
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Poems for Royals
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp The Ultimate Power and Conflict Poetry GCSE Context Book
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Clarendon Press Ovid Amores Medicamina Faciei Femineae Ars
Book SynopsisSince it first appeared in 1961 this has been the standard critical edition of Ovid''s love poems. For this new edition the text has been throughly revised to take account of published scholarship and the further thoughts of the editor. Conjectures have been admitted to both text and apparatus criticus more freely than in the first edition. Punctuation has been improved, spelling has been normalized, and the long poems have been paragraphed. The apparatus criticus now incorporates the reading of the important Berlin manuscript Hamilton 471 and such of the readings formerly reported in the Appendix of minor variants (now omitted) as are of critical significance; it has also been streamlined by the omission of explanatory material more conveniently accessible in commentaries.
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Oxford University Press The Homeric Hymns
Book SynopsisThe Homeric Hymns honour the Greek gods. They are called ''Homeric'' because the ancients attributed them to Homer; it is now accepted that they were composed by later poets working in the same tradition, probably during the seventh and sixth centuries BC. Four of them (Hymns 2-5) stand out by reason of their length and quality. The Hymn to Demeter tells what happened when Hades, lord of the dead, abducted Persephone, Demeter''s daughter (this storyy is connected to the Eleusinian Mysteries, which offered the Greeks the hope of a better lot in the afterlife). The Hymn to Apollo recounts Apollo''s birth and the foundation of his Delphic oracle. In the Hymn to Hermes Apollo''s cattle are stolen by a felonious infant--Hermes, god of thieves. In the Hymn to Aphrodite the goddess of love herself becomes infatuated with a mortal man, the Trojan prince Ankhises (their son is Aineias, the hero of Virgil''s Aeneid). This volume offers a faithful verse translation of all the hymns, Explanatory NTrade ReviewThis translation is very welcome, as until now there has been no widely available modern translation in English ... the translation should prove a great help to those wishing to teach the hymns to students with little or no Greek. Since they are of manageable length, and contain much that is of great interest for Greek religion and poetry, these hymns are eminently worthy of study; and Crudden's efforts should help introduce them to a wider readership. * Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review *Crudden's explanatory notes do a good job of conveying a lot of interesting points in a short space ... at its best Crudden's translation flows smoothly, and captures something of the movement of the originals. * Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review *The translation itself is highly readable ... It is the triumph of the English language and of Crudden's ingenious usage of it that he has succeeded in squeezing such a different version out of almost every line. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
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MIT Press Ltd The Eye of History
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Poetry An Introduction
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Red Globe Press The Metaphysical Poets Palgrave Master Guides
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Palgrave Master Guides
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Red Globe Press Blake Songs of Innocence and of Experience Songs of Innocence and Experience Palgrave Master Guides
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Language of Twentieth Century Poetry The Language of Literature
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Wordsworth and Coleridge Lyrical Ballads Critical Perspectives
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) An Introduction to TwentiethCentury Poetry in English
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) John Donne The Poems Analysing Texts
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Sylvia Plath An Introduction to the Poetry Second Edition
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group As I Walked Out One Evening
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Edinburgh University Press The Poetry of Scotland
Book SynopsisFor the first time, the full canon of poetry from Scotland is available to readers in one volume. The Poetry of Scotland presents all the major, and many less well-known Scottish poets in a broad historical perspective from the fourteenth century to the present day.Trade ReviewIt is lovely to see so much put precisely in place, calm, cool, a careful navigation from the mythic historical foundations through 1603, 1707 Victoria's Empire and the modern age, to come to the point where a national identity has been fully embodied. It is lovely to see so much put precisely in place, calm, cool, a careful navigation from the mythic historical foundations through 1603, 1707 Victoria's Empire and the modern age, to come to the point where a national identity has been fully embodied.
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Edinburgh University Press Lay Sermons
Book SynopsisLay Sermons offers, playfully, a series of lay sermons on good principles and good breeding - the last thing that one would expect from the pen of Blackwood's Ettrick ShepherdTrade ReviewHogg was one of the most complex Scots of his time, as his most famous friend Scott realised when he acknowledged he was a genuine genius. It has taken Scotland a long time to wake up to the enduring importance of the author of the Justified Sinner and all the works to be included in, when complete, what will amount to the 31 volumes of the Stirling/South Carolina edition of the whole Hogg. Scotland perennially recognises only one writer, but Burns is not the whole story. Gillian Hughes has masterfully and meticulously edited the Lay Sermons. An invaluable resource not only to Hogg scholars, but to those interested in the genre ! and, more generally, to those devoted to Scottish literature of the period. It should be in the holdings of any major research library. Hogg was one of the most complex Scots of his time, as his most famous friend Scott realised when he acknowledged he was a genuine genius. It has taken Scotland a long time to wake up to the enduring importance of the author of the Justified Sinner and all the works to be included in, when complete, what will amount to the 31 volumes of the Stirling/South Carolina edition of the whole Hogg. Scotland perennially recognises only one writer, but Burns is not the whole story.
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Edinburgh University Press John Stuart Blackie
Book SynopsisJohn Stuart Blackie was one of the most impressive and influential figures of nineteenth-century Scotland, as well as one of the most striking and flamboyant. As an intellectual he translated Goethe''s Faust and brought first-hand knowledge of German philosophy to Scotland as a means of keeping the Enlightenment tradition alive. As first Professor of Humanity at Aberdeen from 1839 to 1852 and then as Professor of Greek at Edinburgh until 1882, he played a, perhaps the, central role in modernising the Scottish university curriculum, removing the dead hand of theological orthodoxy, raising standards (and the entry age), introducing tutorial teaching and establishing new chairs (including the Edinburgh chair of Celtic). His role in the reform of secondary school teaching was equally central.But Blackie was also a great ''public man'', corresponding with great and famous throughout Great Britain and Europe, from Goethe and Carlyle to Ruskin and Gladstone, and filling the pages of newspapers and journals with writings on the major issues of the day. For the last thirty years of his life he became closely involved in issues of Scottish nationalism and home rule, and as champion of the crofters is largely responsible for their contemporary survival and unique status.Despite the existence of a rich archive of his papers and letters, there has been only one book devoted to his life: The Life of Professor John Stuart Blackie, the most distinguished Scotsman of the day, edited by J. G. Duncan and published in 1895.Trade ReviewThis is an extremely well researched and written biography of one of the most important and, till now, most neglected figures in nineteenth-century Scottish life. -- Pol O Dochartaigh Modern Language Review Wallace's detailed biographical account is illuminating... In an age of bloated biographies, this book is a model of lucid concision. -- Mick Morris, Open University Creative Studies Annual The interest of Blackie's lisfe does not lie in his works, to which few will nw turn, but in the milieux in which he moved, and these are evoked by Wallace in this entertaining book with great skill and sensitivity and with indefatigable scholarship. -- R. D. Anderson History: The Journal of the Historical Association Wallace has undertaken a commendable task in revealing Blackie, the man, and placing him in the academic, social, political, national and international context through which he lived. -- Iain Hutchison History Scotland Stuart Wallace's new biogrpahy has much to commend it: lucidly written, it marshals data and offers shrewd comment on social contexts, Scotland's universities, British and European identities and the role Blackie played in reforming priorities in Scottish educational and political self-determination... Blackie was legendary in his time. This book is a valuable reminder of why, and of the unfinished victories he spent his life struggling for. Every library should have a copy. -- Alan Riach, University of Glasgow Scottish Studies Newsletter This is an extremely well researched and written biography of one of the most important and, till now, most neglected figures in nineteenth-century Scottish life. Wallace's detailed biographical account is illuminating... In an age of bloated biographies, this book is a model of lucid concision. The interest of Blackie's lisfe does not lie in his works, to which few will nw turn, but in the milieux in which he moved, and these are evoked by Wallace in this entertaining book with great skill and sensitivity and with indefatigable scholarship. Wallace has undertaken a commendable task in revealing Blackie, the man, and placing him in the academic, social, political, national and international context through which he lived. Stuart Wallace's new biogrpahy has much to commend it: lucidly written, it marshals data and offers shrewd comment on social contexts, Scotland's universities, British and European identities and the role Blackie played in reforming priorities in Scottish educational and political self-determination... Blackie was legendary in his time. This book is a valuable reminder of why, and of the unfinished victories he spent his life struggling for. Every library should have a copy.
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Edinburgh University Press George Campbell Hay Deòrsa Mac Iain Dheòrsa
Book SynopsisThe work of a highly significant figure in the renaissance of Gaelic poetry in the twentieth century is gathered together for the first time in one authoritative volume.Trade ReviewMichel Byrne did a braw an skeelie service tae the repuit o ane o Scotlan's foremaist makars o the twintiet yearhunnert wi his tentie editin! Nou, houbeit, we hae aa the bardrie o George Campbell Hay, wi owersetting o the Gaelic (an o the ither leids forbye), lang screids pang-fu o wittins anent his life an his makar's airt, commentators on ilka sang an ballant, listins o the place-names an (an eikin tae the first edeition) fowk-names at kythes in his screivins, an aa in a single (aabeit wechtie) buik at aabody can affuird tae hae. Aabody wi a hert-luve for Scotland an its leids bude tae hae't an aa, for there nae dout o Hay's staunin as a giant amang the giants o the Scottish Renaissance. A thing of beauty that will last for ever, an exuberant celebration of nature and of human life -- Ronald Black An immense achievement! long years' labour distilled and presented unobtrusively -- a model of scholarship lightly worn. -- Thomas Owen Clancy The editor seeks, through great erudition and sensitivity, to reveal Hay as a man of his times. -- Meg Bateman [Hay] is matchless as a poet of fishing and the sea. -- James Robertson Michel Byrne did a braw an skeelie service tae the repuit o ane o Scotlan's foremaist makars o the twintiet yearhunnert wi his tentie editin! Nou, houbeit, we hae aa the bardrie o George Campbell Hay, wi owersetting o the Gaelic (an o the ither leids forbye), lang screids pang-fu o wittins anent his life an his makar's airt, commentators on ilka sang an ballant, listins o the place-names an (an eikin tae the first edeition) fowk-names at kythes in his screivins, an aa in a single (aabeit wechtie) buik at aabody can affuird tae hae. Aabody wi a hert-luve for Scotland an its leids bude tae hae't an aa, for there nae dout o Hay's staunin as a giant amang the giants o the Scottish Renaissance. A thing of beauty that will last for ever, an exuberant celebration of nature and of human life An immense achievement! long years' labour distilled and presented unobtrusively -- a model of scholarship lightly worn. The editor seeks, through great erudition and sensitivity, to reveal Hay as a man of his times. [Hay] is matchless as a poet of fishing and the sea.
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Edinburgh University Press Womens Poetry
Book SynopsisThis guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women writers - predominantly although not exclusively writing in English - from Sappho through Anne Bradstreet and Emily Bronte to Sylvia Plath, Eavan Boland and Susan Howe.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Chronology; Preface; Introduction:; A Feminist Framework; Critical Perspectives; Anthologies; Readers and Writers; Androgyny; Chapter 1: Self-Reflexivity; Poetic Daring; Poetic Inspiration; Poetic Relationships; Poetic Form; A Theory of Self-Reflexivity; Chapter 2: Performance; Self Exposure; Theatrics; Role-Play; Slam Poetry; Chapter 3: Private Voices; Separate Spheres; The Lyric; Poetic Convention; Privacy in History; 'I could not find a privacy': Emily Dickinson; Chapter 4: Embodied Language; Objects / Subjects; Writing the Body; Desire: Christina Rossetti; Creativity and Femininity; Chapter 5: Public Speech; Authority; The Romantic Movement; Oppression; War; Speech; Chapter 6: Poetry and Place; Borders; Borderland Britain; Specificities of Place: Elizabeth Bishop; Chapter 7: Experimentation and Form; Mythology and Fairytale; Modernist Experimentation: Marianne Moore; Contemporary Avant-Garde Poetics; Conclusion; Student Resources:; Critical Contexts; Studying Poetry; Close Reading; Writing about Poetry; Web Resources; Glossary; Guide to Further Reading; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Womens Poetry
Book SynopsisThis guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women writers - predominantly although not exclusively writing in English - from Sappho through Anne Bradstreet and Emily Bronte to Sylvia Plath, Eavan Boland and Susan Howe.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Chronology; Preface; Introduction:; A Feminist Framework; Critical Perspectives; Anthologies; Readers and Writers; Androgyny; Chapter 1: Self-Reflexivity; Poetic Daring; Poetic Inspiration; Poetic Relationships; Poetic Form; A Theory of Self-Reflexivity; Chapter 2: Performance; Self Exposure; Theatrics; Role-Play; Slam Poetry; Chapter 3: Private Voices; Separate Spheres; The Lyric; Poetic Convention; Privacy in History; 'I could not find a privacy': Emily Dickinson; Chapter 4: Embodied Language; Objects / Subjects; Writing the Body; Desire: Christina Rossetti; Creativity and Femininity; Chapter 5: Public Speech; Authority; The Romantic Movement; Oppression; War; Speech; Chapter 6: Poetry and Place; Borders; Borderland Britain; Specificities of Place: Elizabeth Bishop; Chapter 7: Experimentation and Form; Mythology and Fairytale; Modernist Experimentation: Marianne Moore; Contemporary Avant-Garde Poetics; Conclusion; Student Resources:; Critical Contexts; Studying Poetry; Close Reading; Writing about Poetry; Web Resources; Glossary; Guide to Further Reading; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Sylvia Plaths Fiction
Book SynopsisThe first study devoted to Sylvia Plath's fiction covering The Bell Jar and all of her published and unpublished short stories drawing extensively on archival material.
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Edinburgh University Press Poetry
Book SynopsisBased on the authors' extensive teaching experience, this volume provides a lively route map through the main aspects of poetry such as sound effects, rhythm and metre, the typographic display of poems on the page and the language of poetry using practical examples throughout.
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Edinburgh University Press The Poetry of Jack Spicer
Book SynopsisIn the years since his death from alcohol poisoning, San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965) has gradually come to be recognized as one of most intriguing, demanding, and rewarding of the so-called ''New American Poetry'' poets who were first published in Donald Allen''s historic anthology of that name.This is the first full-length critical monograph on his work, placing it in the context not only of the San Francisco Renaissance and contemporary movements with which Spicer dialogued and often disagreed - such as the Beats, the Black Mountain poets, and the ''New York School'' - but also of the major modernists from whom his innovative poetics derived, differed, and developed.Informed by much archival material only recently made available, The Poetry of Jack Spicer, examines Spicer''s post-Poundian translation projects; his crucial theories of the ''serial poem'' and inspiration as ''dictation''; his contrarian take on queer poetics; his insistently uncanny regionalism; and his elaboration of an epistolary poetics of interpellation and address.
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Edinburgh University Press The Life of Sir Walter Scott by John Macrone
Book SynopsisA well-written and carefully-researched narrative, it increases our knowledge of Scott''s life and work as perceived by his contemporaries, as well as enabling us to read Hogg''s Anecdotes in their original context.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Macrone at Abbotsford and Innerleithen in 1832; Chapter 2. 1771-1797; Chapter 3. 1797-1815; Chapter 4. The Novelist; Chapter 5. Scott at Abbotsford; Chapter 6. Miscellaneous Traits and Anecdotes; Chapter 7. 1831-2; Chapter 8. Eulogy.
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Edinburgh University Press Transatlantic Transcendentalism
Book SynopsisThis new study argues that Coleridge was so influential in America because he provided a framework for American intellectuals to address one of the great questions of European Romanticism: what is the relationship between the Romantic triad of nature, spirit and humanity?
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