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Independently Published weatherveins: poems for every season
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Independently Published All The Things I Never Said
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Independently Published Crimes against Rhymez: Rhymez for Mad Times
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Independently Published Sobre felicidade, sobre tristeza e sobre coisa
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Independently Published Kandinsky 30: Pictopoesía
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC An Old Ladys Haiku with Cat
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC The Demonic
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Wolves with Furniture
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Nonsuch Media Pte. Ltd. O Castelo do Ser: Segredos Sussurrados no Vento
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Nonsuch Media Pte. Ltd. A Aurora das Palavras Perdidas
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Nonsuch Media Pte. Ltd. Melodias de uma Alma Navegante: Uma Coleção de
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Alliteration LLC An Imperfect Geometry
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BC Books LLC My Little Book of Grief: A Personal Collection of
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International Polar Institute Press Karma Goat
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Distributed Art Pub Ultraviolet of the Genuine
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Peggy For You
Book SynopsisA new comic drama, starring Maureen Lipman, about the life of the famous play agent, Peggy Ramsay, who helped transform post-war British drama
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Bloomsbury Academic Stephenson Plays 1 1 A Memory of Water Five Kinds
Book SynopsisThis collection of Shelagh Stephenson plays offers her Olivier award-winning work - "A Memory of Water", "Five Kinds of Silence", "Experiment with an Air Pump", and "Ancient Lights".Table of ContentsA Memory of Water; Five Kinds of Silence; An Experiment with an Air Pump; Ancient Lights
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC American Buffalo
Book SynopsisThree small-time crooks plot to carry out a midnight robbery of a coin collection. In the hours leading up to the heist, friendship becomes the victim in a conflict between loyalty and business.
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Samuel French Ltd Breezeblock Park
Book SynopsisSuperior council house dwellers Betty, Reeny, Vera and their men regard themselves as a close knit family team despite their concealed jealousies and occasional recriminations. When Betty''s daughter Sandra announces she is pregnant and intends to live unmarried with her student lover, the news explodes like an atom bomb.4 women, 5 men
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Rlpg/Galleys Chinese Lesbian Cinema
Book SynopsisThe emergence of lesbian film in the first decade of the twenty-first century symbolizes a breakthrough through the creation of new cinema that opens up a space that was not previously available or accessible in China. These motion pictures present a new breed of charactersnamely, lesbiansas well as a new sexual subject on the screen for the first time in the history of Chinese cinema. Blending historicist and comparative approaches, this book begins with a critical genealogy of Chinese homosexual traditions in the first two chapters. This strategy allows the author to examine a number of films individually through contextualizing their historical and cultural articulations and interpretations through the remainder of the book.Trade ReviewThe term ‘groundbreaking’ is not strong enough to adequately characterize the insightful contents of Chinese Lesbian Cinema. Utilizing a variety of critical approaches, Liang Shi identifies and explores an important subgenre of underground films that have to date been virtually ignored by media scholars. This book offers incisive analyses of little-seen lesbian-themed films from mainland China, informed by interview responses from their (perhaps unexpectedly) heterosexual, non-activist makers who have little hope of ever reaping profits from their creations. The end result is a must-read text that effectively challenges typical conceptions of lesbian filmmaking as it is characterized in contemporary global discourse. -- Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, Texas Christian UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1: Mirror Rubbing: A Critical Genealogy of Pre-Modern Chinese Female Same-Sex Eroticism Chapter 2: From Mirror Rubbing to Lesbianism: A Critical Genealogy of Modern Chinese Female Same-Sex Eroticism Chapter 3: Prototypes of Lesbian Relations Chapter 4: Discovering and Normalizing Lesbians: Fish and Elephant Chapter 5: Sacrifice of Innocence: Redefining Sexuality in Zhu Yiye’s Film Lost in You Chapter 6: Lost and Found: Fluidity of Sexuality in Love Mime Chapter 7: Love in a Forgotten Corner: Female Same-Sex Desire in Rural China
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers The Pity of Achilles
Book SynopsisIn The Pity of Achilleus, Jinyo Kim examines how the major themes of the IliadAchilleus'' ''wrath,'' heroic values such as honor and glory, and human mortality and suffering, to mention the most widely recognizedare connected to each other in a way that reveals the poem''s structural coherence and unity. Kim asks whether Achilleus'' pity toward Priam at the poem''s close is, as is widely believed, a poetic deus ex machina. In other words, is the conception of Achilleus'' pity an expression of a ''later'' and ''more civilized'' era, as a way of ''correcting'' the warlike savagery that is an undeniable and significant part of the poem? She concludes, rather, that Achilleus'' final reconciliation with the old king of Troy his ''enemy'' according to the warrior ethos in the Iliad represents the integral and ultimate resolution of the theme of Achilleus'' ''wrath'' that is announced in the poem''s opening lines. This book will be valuable for students and scholars of classical literature anTrade ReviewA valuable new contribution. Kim's book is a useful contribution to the study of formulaic language and themes in the Iliad, and may be read with profit by anyone interested in these questions..... * Political Theory *Kim covers much familiar ground, but she has some fresh things to say about pity and its implications in Iliad. * Greece & Rome *Offers a compelling argument. * Classical World *Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *A valuable new contribution. Kim's book is a useful contribution to the study of formulaic language and themes in the Iliad, and may be read with profit by anyone interested in these questions. * Political Theory *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Achilles' Pity Chapter 3 The Meaning of Pity Chapter 4 The Tripartite Structure Chapter 5 Achilles' Menis Chapter 6 Conclusion
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Dionysism and Comedy
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the idea of comic seriousness in Old Comedy. The issue has been a vexing one in classical studies, and the most traditional stance has been that Aristophanes'' comedies reflect his personal ideology, reducing the plays to little more than political speeches. Riu concludes, in contrast, that we should abandon our preconceptions about comic seriousness and approach the language of Aristophanes with care and precision, alert to the nuances of meaning that the comic genre entails. Attempting to set Old Comedy in its proper context, Riu explores the myth and ritual of Dionysus in the city-state (including a reading of Euripides''Bacchae and other sources) and relates the patterns found in those myths to the works of Aristophanes. The book concludes with a section on the relationship between comedy and reality, the import of insults in comedy, comedy as ritual, the relationship between author and character, and the seriousness of comedy. With an appendix that examines Trade ReviewThis study of Dionysus and his functions is well informed and wide-ranging, and Riu's method illuminates many passages in Aristophanes' works. * CHOICE *Dionysism and Comedy is an engaging book. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *The book will appeal to those who seek rituals behind the facade of Old Comedy. * Religious Studies Review *Scholars interested in Aristophanes' politics or anthropological approaches to Greek literature will find much stimulating food for thought. * Phoenix *It is learned, imaginative, and often insightful. * The Classical Outlook *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I: The Reading of Old Comedy Part 3 Part II: Dionysus in Greek Religion: Toward a Reading of theBacchae Chapter 4 Chapter 1: Dionysus the Greek Chapter 5 Chapter 2: Mythic Geographies: Dionysiac Mixtures Chapter 6 Chapter 3: Dionysus and the City Chapter 7 Chapter 4: Happiness and the Dead Part 8 Part III: Dionysism and Comedy Chapter 9 Chapter 5: Presentation of the Comic Dionysism: Frogs Chapter 10 Chapter 6: The Negation of the City: Wasps and Knights Chapter 11 Chapter 7: The Foundation of a Comic City: Birds Chapter 12 Chapter 8: The Role of Women in Comedy and Religion: Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, and Ecclesiazusae Chapter 13 Chapter 9: Peace and Justice: Acharnians, Peace, and Plutus Chapter 14 Chapter 10: Comedy and Reality: How to Save the City Chapter 15 Appendix: The Problem of Clouds: A Defense of the City? Chapter 16 Bibliography Chapter 17 Index
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CURRENCY PRESS The Great
Book SynopsisThe Great is Tony McNamara's distinctive comic take on the rise and reign of Catherine the Great of Russia. The action spans the course of Catherine's adult life as she learns the ways of the world and takes on the challenge of political power with all of its attendant responsibilities, excesses and sorrows. It is at once a coming of age story, a family drama and a wild satire on power. With an attention to veracity that would make Monty Python squeal, history is well and truly damned. Leave the facts with your car keys and your towel on the Sands of Time, come, frolic in the Sea of Great Unlikelihood...
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Broadview Press Ltd The Clandestine Marriage
Book SynopsisDavid Garrick, the leading actor of his time, was also one of its most accomplished dramatists, and The Clandestine Marriage is perhaps his finest play. Its story centres on the household of a wealthy merchant, Mr. Sterling, whose main concern is that his two daughters marry men of wealth. Fanny has defied her apprentice; her sister Betsey is engaged to be married to Sir John Melvil. But Melvil and his friend Lord Ogleby both fall in love with Fanny. It is up to Lovewell to persuade both men that marriage to Fanny is out of the question—without revealing to them that he has already married her.The action of the play and also its setting (a landscape garden designed after the fashion of the time to provide artificial wildness and ‘commanding’ views) give ample scope for Garrick and Coleman to satirize the mercantile mind—yet the play’s comic spirit holds appeal to those on all points of the political compass. First produced in 1766, The Clandestine Marriage was revived to great acclaim in 1995 in a London production starring Nigel Hawthorne.Full-length plays of the late eighteenth century were usually performed together with short plays (or ‘afterpieces’) to form a full evening of entertainment. In accordance with that tradition this edition is completed by two of the most interesting examples of the genre: Charles Burney’s The Cunning-Man (which in fact was several times performed alongside The Clandestine Marriage during the 1766-67 season) and The Rehearsal; or Bayes in Petticoats by Catherine Clive (who played Mrs. Heidelberg in the original production of The Clandestine Marriage).Trade Review“This imaginative collection takes us to the London theatre c. 1766 for an ‘evening’s entertainment’ of sparkling comedies (a mainpiece and two afterpieces), with Chevalier as our knowledgeable and genial guide.” — Peter Sabor, McGill UniversityTable of ContentsPREFACEINTRODUCTIONAn Evening’s EntertainmentStage Tradition and the PastoralSources and Stage HistoriesBibliographyTHE CLANDESTINE MARRIAGEAdvertisementPrologueDramatis PersonaeAct IAct IIAct IIIAct IVAct VEpilogueTHE CUNNING-MANAdvertisementDramatis PersonaeAct IAct IITHE REHEARSAL, OR BAYES IN PETTICOATSAdvertisementPersonsAct IAct IITEXTUAL NOTESThe Clandestine MarriageThe Cunning-ManThe Rehearsl, of Bayes in PetticoatsAPPENDIX A: CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS The Clandestine Marriage The Cunning-Man APPENDIX B: NOTES ON THE ACTORS
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Broadview Press Ltd The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century
Book SynopsisThe publication of The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose is a literary event; this comprehensive volume is the first anthology of the period to reflect the breadth of seventeenth-century studies in recent decades. Over one hundred writers are included, from John Chamberlain at the beginning of the century to Elisabeth Singer Rowe at its end. There are generous selections from the work of all major writers, and a representation of the work of virtually every writer of significance. The work of women writers figures prominently, with extensive selections not only from canonical writers such as Behn and Bradstreet, but also from other writers (such as Katherine Philips and Margaret Cavendish) who have been receiving considerable scholarly attention in recent years.The anthology is broadly inclusive, with writing from America as well as from the British Isles. Memoirs, letters, political texts, travel writing, prophetic literature, street ballads, and pamphlet literature are all here, as is a full representation of the literary poetry and prose of the period, including the poetry of Jonson; the prose of Bacon; the metaphysical poetry of Donne, Herbert, Marvell, and others; the lyric verse of Herrick; and substantial selections from the poetry and prose of Milton and Dryden. (While Samson Agonistes is included in its entirety, Milton’s epic poems have been excluded, in order to allow space for other works not so readily accessible elsewhere.)The editors have included complete works wherever possible. A headnote by the editors introduces each author, and each selection has been newly annotated.Trade Review“There are many good things to be said about The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose—not least that it comes to help relieve a quarter-of-a-century’s dearth of decent anthologies, that it covers the whole century, and that it includes a number of women writers…This ambitious and thoughtful anthology deserves a large audience.” — Tom Clayton, Regents Professor of English, University of MinnesotaTable of ContentsJOHN CHAMBERLAIN Letters The Death of Queen Elizabeth (1603)The Marriage of Princess Elizabeth (1613) LANCELOT ANDREWES A Sermon Preached Before the Kings Majesty at Whitehall (1609)NICHOLAS BRETON The Good and the Bad (excerpts) (1616) An Atheist or Most Bad ManA Wanton WomanA Quiet WomanAn Unworthy Lawyer MARY SIDNEY HERBERT, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE The Psalms of David Psalm 52 Quid Gloriaris?Psalm 58 Si Vere UtiquePsalm 74 Ut Quid, DeusPsalm 120 Ad Dominum FRANCIS BACON Essays (excerpts) Of TruthOf Simulation and DissimulationOf Marriage and Single LifeOf LoveOf Seditions and TroublesOf TravelOf EmpireOf the True Greatness of Kingdoms and EstatesOf PlantationsOf Masques and TriumphsOf Studies (1597)Of Studies (1625) Aphorisms (excerpts) The IdolsIdols of the TribeIdols of the CaveIdols of the Market-placeIdols of the TheatreApplication of the Method MICHAEL DRAYTONTo the Virginian VoyageTo the Cambro-Britons, and their Harp, his Ballad of AgincourtSonnet 61 Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and partKING JAMES VI/I A Speech to the Lords and Commons (1610)THOMAS CAMPIONfrom A Book of AirsLet him that will be free and keep his heart from careFollow your Saint, follow with accents sweetfrom Two Books of AirsSweet, exclude me not, nor be dividedAs by the streams of Babylonfrom The Third Book of AirsIf Love loves truth, then women do not lovefrom The Fourth Book of AirsThere is a garden in her faceHENRY WOTTONOn his Mistress, the Queen of BohemiaThe Character of a Happy LifeUpon the Death of Sir Albert Morton’s WifeOn a Bank as I Sat a-Fishing: A Description of the SpringDe MorteAEMILIA LANYER Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (excerpts) To All Virtuous Ladies in GeneralThe Author’s Dream to the Lady MarySalve Deus Rex Judaorum (excerpts)The Description of Cooke-ham LADY MARGARET HOBY The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby 1599-1605 (excerpts)JOHN DONNE Songs and Sonnets The ApparitionThe FleaThe Good-MorrowLove’s Alchemy The IndifferentThe AnniversaryThe Sun RisingThe CanonizationConfined LoveAir and AngelsTwicknam GardenA Valediction: of WeepingThe EcstasyFarewell to LoveA Valediction: forbidding MourningA Nocturnal upon S. Lucy’s Day being the shortest dayThe Relic Elegies Elegy VIElegy VIIElegy VIII The ComparisonElegy IX The AutumnalElegy XIX To His Mistress Going to BedElegy [XVIII] Love’s Progress Satires Satire III Divine PoemsHoly Sonnets VIVIIIXXXIXIIXIIIXIVXV Holy Sonnets from the Westmoreland MS XVIIXVIIIXIXGood Friday, 1613. Riding WestwardA Hymn to Christ, at the Author’s last going into GermanyA Hymn to God my God, in my sicknessA Hymn to God the Father Devotions: Upon Emergent Occasions (excerpts) IV. ExpostulationV. MeditationXVII. MeditationXXL Meditation The Second of my Prebend Sermons (January 29, 1626) BEN JONSONTo the ReaderTo AlchemistsOn Something that Walks SomewhereTo William CamdenOn My First DaughterOn My First SonOn Lucy, Countess of BedfordTo Sir Henry SavileTo Sir Thomas RoeTo the SameInviting a Friend to SupperTo PenshurstTo HeavenSong To CeliaHer TriumphAn Epistle to Master John SeldenAn Epistle Answering to One that Asked to be Sealed of the Tribe of BenAn Ode. To HimselfTo the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Gary and Sir H. MorisonThe Praises of a Country LifeOn The New Inn Ode. To HimselfTo the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William ShakespeareClerimont’s SongA Vision of BeautyWILLIAM LAUD Diary (selections)ELIZABETH CLINTON, COUNTESS OF LINCOLN The Countess of Lincoln’s Nursery (excerpts)ROBERT BURTON The Anatomy of Melancholy (excerpts)Democritus Junior To the ReaderLove of Learning, or Overmuch StudyTHE OVERBURIAN CHARACTERA Good WomanA Fair and Happy MilkmaidA WatermanA PrisonerRICHARD CORBETTUpon an Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto himThe Fairies Farewell: Or God-a-Mercy WillThe Distracted PuritanEDWARD, LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURYAn Ode upon a Question moved, Whether Love should continue for ever?LADY MARY WROTH Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 1 When night’s black mantle could most darkness prove8 Love, leave to urge, thou know’st thou hast the hand13 Cloyed with the torments of a tedious night15 Dear famish not what you yourself gave food16 Am I thus conquered? Have I lost the powers22 Come darkest night, becoming sorrow best25 Like to the Indians, scorched with the sun26 When everyone to pleasing pastime hies39 Take heed mine eyes, how you your looks do cast40 False hope which feeds but to destroy, and spill48 If ever Love had force in human breast?Song 74 Love, a child, is ever crying,A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love 77 In this strange labyrinth, how shall I turn?78 Is to leave all, and take the thread of Love79 His flames are joys, his bands true lovers’ might80 And be in his brave court a glorious light81 And burn, yet burning you will love the smart82 He may our prophet, and our tutor prove83 How blest be they then, who his favours prove84 He that shuns love doth love himself the less85 But where they may return with honour’s grace86 Be from the Court of Love, and Reason torn87 Unprofitably pleasing, and unsound88 Be given to him who triumphs in his right89 Free from all fogs but shining fair, and clear90 Except my heart which you bestowed before103 My muse, now happy, lay thy self to rest THOMAS HOBBES Leviathan, or The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth (excerpts) The IntroductionChapter XIIIChapter XVIIChapter XVIIIChapter XIXChapter XXChapter XXIChapter XLVIIA Review, and Conclusion WILLIAM BROWNEOn the Countess Dowager of PembrokeLADY ELEANOR DAVIES The Lady Eleanor Her Appeal (excerpts) (1646)SIR ROBERT FILMER Patriarcha (excerpts)Directions for Obedience to Government in Dangerous or Doubtful Times WILLIAM BRADFORD History of Plymouth Plantation (excerpts)Book I, Chapter 9Book II, Chapter 19ANNE CLIFFORD The Knole Diary (1603-1619) (excerpts) 160316161617 ROBERT HERRICKTo the Most Illustrious, and Most Hopeful Prince, Charles, Prince of WalesThe Argument of his BookWhen he would have his Verses ReadThe Difference Betwixt Kings and SubjectsUpon the Loss of His MistressesCherry-RipeTo the King and Queen, Upon Their Unhappy DistancesDelight in DisorderDuty to TyrantsTo DianemeCorinna’s Going a MayingTo live Merrily, and to Trust to Good VersesTo the Virgins, to Make Much of TimeThe Hock-cart, or Harvest HomeTo Anthea, who may Command him AnythingTo MeadowsUpon Prudence Baldwin her SicknessOn himselfCasualtiesTo DaffodilsMatins, or Morning PrayerEvensongThe Bracelet to JuliaThe Departure of the Good DaemonThe Power in the PeopleTo his BookShame, no StatistFresh Cheese and CreamHis Winding-SheetHis Prayer to Ben. JonsonAn Ode for himThe Bad Season Makes the Poet SadHis Return to LondonHis Grange, or Private WealthUpon Julia’s ClothesA Thanksgiving to God, for his HouseHis Litany, to the Holy SpiritBENJAMIN LANEY The Study of Quiet, in Two SermonsA Sermon Preached Before His Majesty at Whitehall, March 12, 1665A Sermon Preached before the King At Whitehall March 18, 1666 FRANCIS QUARLESEmblem III (from Book III)Emblem VII (from Book III)Epigram III (from Book IV)Eclogue VIIIHENRY KINGAn Exequy to his Matchless never to be forgotten FriendUpon the Death of my ever Desired Friend Dr Donne Dean of Paul’sSic VitaWILLIAM CAVENDISH, DUKE OF NEWCASTLE Advice to Charles II (excerpts) For TradeFor Ceremony and OrderThe Errors of State and Their RemediesThe Recreations for Your Majesty’s People GEORGE HERBERTThe AltarRedemptionEaster WingsAffliction (I)Prayer (I)Jordan (I)The H. Scriptures IThe H. Scriptures IIChurch-monumentsThe WindowsDenialVanity (I)VirtueThe Pearl. Matth. 13:45ManLifeJordan (II)The QuipProvidenceParadiseThe PilgrimageThe CollarThe PulleyThe FlowerAaronThe ElixirLove (III)L’EnvoyTHOMAS CAREWA Deposition from LoveDisdain ReturnedTo SaxhamA RaptureTo Ben JonsonAn Elegy Upon the Death of the Dean of Pauls, Dr. John DonneTo a Lady that desired I would love herA SongThe second RaptureIn praise of his MistressEDWARD WINSLOW Good News from New England (excerpt) The Religion and Customs of the Indians Near New Plymouth JAMES SHIRLEY“The glories of our blood and state”RACHEL SPEGHT A Muzzle for Melastomus To Joseph SwetnamOf Woman’s Excellency The Dream THOMAS EDWARDS Gangraena (1646) (excerpt) The Catalogue of Errors KING CHARLES I A Proclamation and Declaration to Inform Our Loving Subjects of Our Kingdom of England of the Seditious Practices of Some in Scotland (1639)BATHSUA MAKIN An Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen (excerpts) To her Highness the Lady MaryCare ought to be taken by us to Educate Women in LearningPostscript WILLIAM WALWYN The Bloody Project (1649)JOHN EARLE Microcosmography To the ReaderA ChildA SurgeonPaul’s Walk OWEN FELLTHAM Resolves Of PuritansOf PovertyOf WomanOf Poets and PoetryA Rule in Reading Authors THOMAS RANDOLPHThe Second Epode of Horace TranslatedAn Elegy upon the Lady Venetia DigbyUpon his PictureAn Ode to Master Anthony Stafford, to hasten him into the CountryAn Answer to Master Ben. Jonson’s OdeOn the Death of a NightingaleA Pastoral CourtshipWILLIAM HABINGTONNox nocti indicat ScientiamSIR THOMAS BROWNE Religio Medici To the ReaderThe First Part (excerpts)The Second Part (excerpts) Hydriotaphia, Urne-Burial Chapter 1 (excerpts)Chapter 2 (excerpts)Chapter 5 EDMUND WALLEROn a GirdleGo, Lovely Rose!Upon His Majesty’s Repairing of Paul’sOn St. James’s Park, As Lately Improved by His MajestyOf the Last Verses in the BookJOHN MILTONOn the Morning of Christ’s NativityL’AllegroII PenserosoLycidasSonnet 7Sonnet 12 On the detraction which followed upon my writing certain treatisesSonnet 18 On the Late Massacre in PiedmontSonnet 19On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long ParliamentSonnet 15 On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of ColchesterSamson Agonistes JOHN MILTON (PROSE)from The Reason of Church Government (1641)Areopagitica (1644)Of True Religion, Heresy, Schism, and Toleration (1673)SIR JOHN SUCKLINGTo the ReaderSongA Ballad. Upon a WeddingThe Constant LoverA Barley-breakSonnet ISonnet IISonnet IIIThe WitsA CandleQUEEN HENRIETTA MARIA The Queen’s LetterThe Queen’s Letter Sent to the King’s most excellent Majesty from Holland EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon and The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England (excerpts)The Character of William LaudThe Temper and Spirit of the Nation after 1660The Plague and the Fire of London, 1665-6GERRARD WINSTANLEY A Declaration from the Poor Oppressed People of England (1649)The Diggers’ SongANNE BRADSTREETThe PrologueA Dialogue between Old England and New concerning their Present TroublesThe Flesh and the SpiritThe Author to Her BookTo My Dear and Loving HusbandAnotherIn Memory of my Dear Grandchild Elizabeth BradstreetSome Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666To My Dear ChildrenRICHARD CRASHAWWishes. To his (supposed) MistressSaint Mary Magdalene or The WeeperA Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint TeresaJOHN CLEVELANDThe King’s DisguiseThe Rebel ScotEpitaph on the Earl of StraffordThe General EclipseJEREMY TAYLOR A Funeral Sermon, Preached at the Obsequies of the Right Honourable and Most Virtuous Lady The Lady Frances, Countess of CarberyThe Rule and Exercises of Holy Living (excerpt)Consideration of the general instruments, and means serving to a holy life: by way of introductionThe Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying (excerpt)Three precepts preparatory to a holy death to be practised in our whole lifeOf daily examination of our actions, in the whole course of our health, preparatory to our death-bedReasons for a daily examinationSAMUEL BUTLER Hudibras (excerpts)A Romance-WriterA RabbleROWLAND WATKYNSTo the ReaderThe AnabaptistUpon the Mournful Death of our Late Soveraign Lord Charles the First, King of England, &cThe Common PeopleThe Holy SepulchreThe New Illiterate Lay-TeachersMARGARET FELLWomen’s Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed of by the ScripturesLAWRENCE CLARKSON (CLAXTON) The Lost Sheep Found (1660)RICHARD OVERTON The Proceedings of the Council of State Against Richard Overton, now Prisoner in the Tower of London, 1649SIR JOHN DENHAMCooper’s HillSIR ROGER L’ESTRANGE Considerations and Proposals in Order to the Regulation of the Press (1663)RICHARD LOVELACETo Lucasta, Going to the WarsThe GrasshopperTo Lucasta. From PrisonTo my Worthy Friend Mr. Peter LillyTo Althea, From PrisonThe AntTo a Lady with Child that Asked an Old ShirtABRAHAM COWLEYThe WishExtracts from the Preface to the Poems of 1656The GrasshopperThe Innocent 111On the Death of Mr. CrashawTo Mr. HobbesBrutusTo the Royal SocietySors VirgilianaOf SolitudeOf ObscurityOf My SelfABIEZER COPPE A Fiery Flying Rolland A Second Fiery Flying Roll (excerpts)ALEXANDER BROMEThe Levellers RantThe New-CourtierThe Saints’ EncouragementA Satire on the RebellionJOHN EVELYN The Diary of John Evelyn (selections) The RestorationThe Fire of London LUCY HUTCHINSON“All Sorts of Men”The Life of Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson Written by Herself, A FragmentMemoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (excerpts)ANDREW MARVELLFlecknoe, an English Priest at RomeThe CoronetThe GalleryThe Definition of LoveTo His Coy MistressAn Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return From IrelandThe Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of FlowersThe Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her FawnUpon the Hill and Grove at BilbroughUpon Appleton HouseThe GardenOn a Drop of DewA Dialogue between the Soul and BodyThe Mower against GardensDamon the MowerThe Mower to the Glow-wormsThe Mower’s SongThe Character of HollandBermudasThe First Anniversary of the Government under His Highness the Lord ProtectorOn Mr. Milton’s “Paradise Lost”HENRY VAUGHANA RhapsodyUpon a Cloak Lent Him by Mr. J. RidsleyRegenerationThe Retreat“Joy of my life! while left me here”The Morning-Watch“And do they so?”“I walked the other day”“They are all gone into the world of light!”Cock-CrowingThe KnotThe NightThe BookTo His BooksMARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLEThe Poetress’s Hasty ResolutionA Discourse of BeastsThe Hunting of the HareThe Pastime of the Queen of the Fairies, when she comes upon earth out of the centerHer Descending Down“I Language want”The Philosophical and Physical OpinionsTo the Two UniversitiesNature’s Pictures Drawn by Fancy’s Pencil to the LifeThe Loving CuckoldOrations of Diverse Sorts, Accommodated to Diverse PlacesAn Oration for Liberty of ConscienceAn Oration against Liberty of ConscienceAn Oration proposing a Mean betwixt the two former OpinionsCCXI Sociable Letters (excerpts)Philosophical Letters: or, Modest Reflections (excerpts)MARY HOWGILLA Remarkable Letter of Mary Howgill to Oliver Cromwell, Called ProtectorLADY ANNE HALKETT The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett (excerpts)KATHARINE EVANS AND SARAH CHEVERS This is a Short Relation of Some of the Cruel Sufferings (For the Truth’s Sake) of Katharine Evans and Sarah Chevers, in the Inquisition in the Isle of Malta (excerpts)JOHN AUBREY Brief Lives (selections) Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)Venetia Digby (1600-33)Thomas Fairfax (1612-71)Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)Robert Hooke (1635-1703)Andrew Marvell (1621-78)Sir Robert Moray (d.1673)John Milton (1608-74) DOROTHY OSBORNE The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 Saturday, January 8, 1653Thursday-Saturday June 2-4, 1653October 1653October 1653Saturday, February 4, 1654Saturday, February 11, 1654March 18, 1654 JOHN BUNYAN Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (excerpt)The Pilgrim s Progress (excerpt)Christian and Faithful visit Vanity FairKING CHARLES II The Declaration of Breda (1660)JOHN DRYDEN Annus MirabilisAbsalom and AchitophelMac FlecknoeReligio Laid or A Layman’s Faith (excerpt)A Song for St Cecilia’s Day, 1687To the Memory of Mr. OldhamJuvenal’s Sixth Satire (excerpts)The Empress MessalinaThe learned wifeThe gaudy gossipJuvenal’s Tenth Satire (excerpt)SejanusThe Secular Masque KATHERINE PHILIPSUpon the Double Murder of K. Charles I in Answer to a Libelous Copy of Rimes by Vavasour PowellOn the Numerous Access of the English to wait upon the King in FlandersOn the 3 of September, 1651Friendship’s Mystery, To My Dearest LucasiaA Retired Friendship, To Ardelia Wiston VaultTo My Excellent Lucasia, On Our Friendship A Country LifeOrinda to Lucasia parting October 1661 at LondonOrinda Upon Little Hector PhilipsOrinda to LucasiaA Married StatePHILO-PHILIPPATo the Excellent OrindaANTHONY À WOOD The Life and Times of Anthony à Wood (excerps) Notes on Oxford during the InterregnumThe Restoration Athenae Oxoniensis (excerpts) Robert BurtonJeremy Taylor JOHN LOCKE An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (excerpt) Of Enthusiasm GEORGE SAVILE, MARQUIS OF HALIFAX A Character of King Charles II (excerpts) Of his ReligionHis Amours, Mistresses, &:cHis Conduct to his MinistersOf his Wit and ConversationHis Talents, Temper, Habits, &cConclusion SAMUEL PEPYS The Diary of Samuel Pepys (excerpt) The Fire of London ROBERT SOUTHEcclesiastical Policy the Best Policy: or Religion the Best Reason of StateMARY ROWLANDSON The Sovereignty and Goodness of God Together, with the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed; Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (excerpts) The First RemoveThe Second RemoveThe Third RemoveThe Fourth RemoveThe Eighth RemoveThe Twentieth Remove THOMAS SPRAT The History of The Royal Society of London (excerpts) A Proposal for Erecting an English AcademyTheir Manner of Discourse THOMAS TRAHERNE The Third Century (excerpt)WonderInnocenceThe PreparativeThe InstructionThe DemonstrationThe AnticipationCHARLES SACKVILLE, EARL OF DORSETMy OpinionSIR CHARLES SEDLEYYoung Coridon and PhillisAPHRA BEHNSong “I Led my Silvia to a Grove”The Golden Age. A Paraphrase on a Translation out of FrenchSong “Love Armed”On a Juniper Tree, Cut Down to Make BusksThe DisappointmentOn the Death of the late Earl of RochesterA Pindaric on the Death of our Late SovereignTo the fair ClarindaLove Letters by Mrs A. BehnThe Dumb Virgin: Or, The Force of ImaginationPIERRE-ESPRIT RADISSON Travel Journal: Lake Superior, 1659-60 (excerpts)BISHOP GILBERT BURNET History of My Own TimeThe RestorationReign of King Charles IIJOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTERSongUpon His Leaving His MistressA Satire Against Reason and MankindThe Disabled DebaucheeSongThe Imperfect EnjoymentA Ramble in St. James’s ParkA Song of a Young Lady to her Ancient LoverSignior DildoImpromptu on Charles IIELINOR JAMES An Injured Prince Vindicated, or, A Scurrilous and Detracting Pamphlet AnsweredMrs. James’s Vindication of the Church of England, in an answer to a pamphlet entitled A New Test of the Church of England’s Loyalty (excerpts)THOMAS WHARTONLilli BurleroJANE BARKERAn Invitation to my Friends at CambridgeA Virgin LifeThe Prospect of a Landscape, Beginning with a GroveTo My Young LoverTo My Friends Against PoetryJOHN OLDHAMAn Imitation of HoraceUpon a BooksellerANNE KILLIGREWA Farewell to Worldly JoysThe Complaint of a LoverOn a Picture Painted by Herself, Representing Two Nymphs of Diana’sThe DiscontentCloris’ Charms Dissolved by EudoraJOHN TUTCHINThe ForeignersCOTTON MATHER Diary of Cotton Mather (excerpts)ELIZABETH JOHNSONPreface to the Reader, Poems on Several OccasionsWritten by Philomela ELIZABETH SINGER ROWE “PHILOMELA”Platonic LoveA Poetical Question concerning the Jacobites, sent to the AtheniansThe Athenians’ AnswerA Pindaric, to the Athenian SocietyTo CelindaThe Reply to Mr.——A MISCELLANYLETTERSOliver Cromwell to Colonel Valentine WaltonCharles I to Prince RupertEleanor Gwynne to Laurence HydeJohn Evelyn to Sir Christopher WrenBALLADSTom o’ BedlamA sweet and pleasant Sonnet, entitled:My mind to me a kingdom isDitties Lamentation for the cruelty of this ageThe King’s Last Farewell to the WorldThe Royal Health to the Rising SunA Looking-Glass for Men and MaidsNo Ring, no WeddingPOEMS ON THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAMUpon the Duke of BuckinghamEpitaph on the Duke of BuckinghamEpitaphINFORMATION FROM THE SCOTTISH NATION to all the True English, Concerning the Present Expedition (1640)THE PUTNEY DEBATESThe Putney Debates: The Debate on the FranchiseTHE TRIAL OF KING CHARLES I The Kings Reasons for Declining the Jurisdiction of the High Court of JusticeThe Sentence of the High Court of Justice Upon the King A TRUE RELATION, of the Inhumane and Unparallel’d Actions and Barbarous Murders of Negroes or Moors: Committed on three English-men in Old Calabar in Guinny (1672)THE GENTLEWOMAN’S COMPANION (1673)The IntroductionWhat Qualifications Best Become and are Most Suitable to a GentlewomanOf the Government of the EyeOf Speech and ComplementOf Wanton Songs, and Idle BalladsWhat Recreations and Pleasures are Most Fitting and Proper for Young GentlewomenCOURT SATIRE (1682)THE JUDGMENT AND DECREE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORDPassed in Their Convocation, July 21, 1683, against Certain Pernicious Books and Damnable Doctrines, Destructive to the Sacred Persons of Princes, Their State and Government, and of All Humane Society (1683)INDEXESINDEX OF FIRST LINESINDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES
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Broadview Press Ltd Something New
Book SynopsisTo be a heroine is to be beautiful—such has been the unstated assumption from the time of chivalric romance to that of Harlequin romance. But this ideology of ‘the beauty myth’ was challenged as early as 1801 with the publication of this extraordinary epistolary novel-romance.Something New explores sexual roles and questions with subtlety and astonishingly modern insight the prevailing ‘rights’ of men over women, and their respective attitudes towards one another. The book explores how issues of beauty, femininity and self-support are central to the main character, Olivia, and her suitor Lionel. Lionel, who has always been ‘the devoted slave of beauty,’ becomes convinced that marriage to the ‘proverbially plain’ Olivia will lead them to ‘a little paradise on earth.’ Do they attain this paradise? The resolution to this romance retains the power to surprise the reader as much today as it did when Something New was first published.Trade Review“Plumptre’s creation of a physically unattractive heroine is indeed ‘something new.’ Her innovation in this epistolary novel also extends beyond the characterization of Olivia to the models of masculinity, sentimental and satiric, so tellingly grouped around her. McLeod’s skillful edition includes a thought-provoking compendium of 18th-century views of beauty and ugliness.” — Jennifer Thorn, Duke University“A wonderful novel. A highly accomplished book, fresh and relevant to feminist debates today.” — Isobel Grundy, co-editor of The Feminist Companion to English LiteratureTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionAnne Plumptre: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextSomething New: or, Adventures at Campbell-HouseAppendix: Eighteenth-Century Views of Beauty and Ugliness
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Broadview Press Ltd Laetitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings
Book SynopsisThe work of ‘L.E.L.’ began to be published when she was only seventeen, and in her early twenties Landon had already achieved considerable renown. As a widely envied independent woman in London society, however, she was increasingly the subject of scandalous gossip. Eventually she married the governor of a colony in West Africa, and died under mysterious circumstances soon after arriving in Africa, aged thirty-six. Landon’s life contributed very largely to the nineteenth-century archetype of the poet as a breed apart, heroic but doomed. Her poetry, however, was until very recently largely forgotten; this is the first twentieth-century edition of her poems, which the editors describe as “cold and sentimental at the same time, flat and intense.”In addition to a broad selection of Landon’s poetry and prose, this volume also includes a wide variety of contextual materials and a comprehensive bibliography.Trade Review“In the 1820s and 30s Letitia Elizabeth Landon was the pre-eminent poetess of romantic love and, after the death of Byron, the most popular poet of her generation. Jerome McGann and Daniel Riess have assembled a useful and imaginative collection of Landon’s major works. The result is an edition—complete with excellent historical and biographical introduction, reliable notes, and extensive bibliography—that will introduce students and scholars to this important, if neglected, nineteenth-century woman poet and help them understand why Elizabeth Barrett found Landon, with her ‘raw bare powers,’ such a formidable predecessor. The Publication of Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings is a cause for celebration.” — Linda Peterson, Yale University“Like many Broadview Editions, this one is a model of its kind.” — Nineteenth-Century LiteratureTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsEditorial PrefaceIntroductionLetitia Elizabeth Landon: A Brief ChronologyWORKSfrom The Literary Gazette Six Songs of Love, Constancy, Romance, Inconstancy, Truth, and Marriage (1821)from Medallion Wafers (1823) IntroductionConclusion The Hall of Statues (1831) from The Improvisatrice and Other Poems (1824)The Improvisatrice [selections]Lines Written Under a Picture of a Girl Burninga Love-LetterWhen Should Lovers Breathe Their Vows?from The Troubadour (1825)A Child Screening a Dove from a HawkThe Enchanted Islandfrom The Golden Violet (1826)ErinnaSong (“My heart is like the failing hearth”)Song (“Where oh where s the chain to fling”)from The Venetian Bracelet (1828)Preface to The Venetian BraceletA Summer Evening’s TaleLines of LifeA History of the LyreFantasies, inscribed to T. Crofton Croker, Esq.RevengeStanzas to the Author of “Mont Blanc,” “Ada,” etc.from The Keepsake for 1829Verses (“Lady, thy face is very beautiful”)The Altered Riverfrom Romance and Reality (1831)Chapter Ifrom The Amulet for 1832Corinne at the Cape of Misenafrom Traits and Trials of Early Life (1836)The History of a Childfrom The New Monthly MagazineOn the Ancient and Modern Influence of Poetry (1832)Stanzas on the Death of Mrs. Hemans (1835)On the Character of Mrs. Hemans s Writings (1835)First Love; or, Constancy in the NineteenthCentury (1836)Three Extracts from the Diary of a Week (1837)The Polar Star (1839)Night at Sea (1839)from Fisher’s Drawing Room Scrap BookSkeleton Group in the Rameswur, Caves of Ellora. Supposed toRepresent the Nuptials of Siva and Parvati (1832)A Legend of Tintagel Castle (1833)Linmouth (1833)Hebe (1834)Sassoor, in the Deccan (1835)Hindoo and Mahommedan Buildings (1835)Scene in Kattiawar (1835)The Fairy of the Fountains (1835)Immolation of a Hindoo Widow (1836)from Scenes in London — I. PiccadillyPulo Penang (1836)The Young Destructive (1836)Expectation (1837)Felicia Hemans (1838)The Tombs of the Kings of Golconda (1838)Captain CookThe Church of St. John, and the Ruins of Lahneck Castle, formerly belonging to the TemplarsDisenchantment (1838)The Village Bells (1839)from Flowers of Loveliness (1838)The HyacinthNotesAppendix A: Contemporary ReviewsAppendix B: Poems Written for and about “L.E.L.”Appendix C: “Lezione per L’Amore” [first published version of “Song. (Where, oh, where’s the chain to fling)”]Appendix D. Index to the Poetry of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, ed. Glenn Dibert-Himes and Cynthia LawfordBibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Midlife
Book Synopsis[I tell her] "golf is sacred. Holy. Sacrosanct." I like that. Sacrosanct. So she tells me about this article she read, about the attitude of the average middle-aged guy toward the game of golf...Anyway, according to Darlene, the idea behind this stupid article is that at a certain age, men give up on sex and spend all their time and energy on golf instead. To which I asked, So what's your point? That didn't go down so well. (Jack in Act I)The landscape of middle-aged male bravado and angst that Eugene Stickland populates here with Calgary oilmen and their romantic difficulties has been visited before—by John Updike, Richard Ford, and other prose writers of the past generation. But rarely has it been visited in dramatic form with the combination of broad humor and gentle wit that Stickland brings to this new comedy. Midlife was published in conjunction with its world premiere as part of Alberta Theatre Projects playRites Festival, February/March 2002.Trade Review“In a word: intoxicating.” — Lori Montgomery, FFWD Magazine
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Broadview Press Ltd Doc
Book SynopsisWhen Catherine returns home on the eve of ceremonies honouring her physician father, she unleashes a kaleidoscope of memories as father and daughter attempt to lay old ghosts to rest. While public service has been the keynote of Doc's life it has covered the private anguish of a family in crisis. Interacting with figures from the past (including wife and mother Bob, best friend Oscar, and Catherine herself as the young child Katie), the characters retrace and relive past triumphs and tragedies, culminating in Bob's death.Humour leavens this drama of a father and daughter's struggle to love, to forgive, and to understand in order to go on. Doc was first produced in 1984 at Theatre Calgary and has since been produced widely elsewhere. The play received the Governor General's Award for Drama in 1986.Trade Review“An emotional steamroller of a play.” — Toronto Star“Doc will have the same impact wherever it is performed…what happens on the stage has the truth of good theatre.” — Saint John Telegraph-Journal“Doc emerges as Pollock’s finest work yet…she has made a strong personal statement for universal applications.” — Calgary Herald
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Broadview Press Ltd Edward II
Book SynopsisDepicting with shocking openness the sexual and political violence of its central characters' fates, Edward the Second broke new dramatic ground in English theatre. The play charts the tragic rise and fall of the medieval English monarch Edward the Second, his favourite Piers Gaveston, and their ambitious opponents Queen Isabella and Mortimer Jr., and is an important cultural, as well as dramatic, document of the early modern period.This modernized and fully annotated Broadview Edition is prefaced by a critical but student-oriented introduction and followed by ample appendix material, including extended selections from Marlowe's historical sources, texts bearing on the play's complex sexual and political dynamics, and excerpts from contemporary poet Michael Drayton's epic rendition of Edward the Second's reign.Trade Review“This is a first-rate edition of an increasingly important play. Mathew Martin’s editing of the quarto text of Edward the Second is detailed and thoughtful, with copious, insightful annotations, and his critical introduction lucidly explores the play’s theatrical contexts, historiographical concerns, and thematic imperatives. The extensive appendices that conclude the volume are invaluable for understanding the larger historical, political, and sexual contexts of the work. All in all, this is an edition that will greatly benefit both the student reader and the experienced scholar.” — Ian Munro, University of California, Irvine“Mathew Martin’s new edition of Edward the Second will serve well the needs of students. The introduction contains a succinct and helpful summary of the pertinent aspects of Marlowe’s life and of the practical concerns of the Elizabethan stage, details the reign of the historical Edward II, and considers early modern and postmodern evaluations of “sodomitical” relationships. Appendices offer important cultural contexts, including passages from Marlowe’s historical sources in Holinshed and Stow, Michael Drayton’s very different poetic account of Edward’s reign, a selection of early modern versions of the tradition of amity (or friendship between men), and Renaissance legal and moral descriptions of sodomy.” — Ian McAdam, University of LethbridgeTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChristopher Marlowe: A Brief Chronology of His Life and TimesA Note on the TextEdward the SecondAppendix A: Marlowe’s Historical Sources From Raphael Holinshed, The Third Volume of Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1587) From John Stow, The Annals of England (1592) Appendix B: From Michael Drayton, Mortimeriados (1596)Appendix C: The Diana-Actæon Myth From Arthur Golding, The XV Books of P. Ovidius Naso (1567) Sonnet V of Samuel Daniel’s Sonnet Sequence Delia (1592) Appendix D: On Friendship Thomas Elyot, “The True Description of Amity or Friendship” (1580) From Francis Bacon, “Of Friendship” (1625) From Richard Barnfield, “The Tears of an Affectionate Shepherd Sick for Love or The Complaint of Daphnis for the Love of Ganymede” (1594) Appendix E: Sodomy “An Act for the Punishment of the Vice of Buggerie” (1587) Edward Coke, “Of Buggery, or Sodomy” (1644) From Philip Stubbes, The Anatomy of Abuses (1583) From Thomas Beard, The Theatre of God’s Judgements (1597) Appendix F: Kings and Tyrants From An Homily against Disobedience and Wilful Rebellion (1570) From Hugh Languet, Vindiciae contra Tyrannos: A Defence of Liberty against Tyrants (1648) From James I of England and VI of Scotland, The True Law of Free Monarchies (1603) Works Cited and Further Reading
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Broadview Press Ltd King Lear
Book SynopsisThis volume includes the text of the play as prepared by Craig Walker for The Broadview Anthology of British Literature—a text notable both for outstanding introductory material and annotations, and for the inclusion of parallel text versions of key scenes for which the texts in the Quarto and Folio versions are substantially different. Appendices in this edition include excerpts from key Shakespearean source material such as the anonymous True Chronicle History of King Leir, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae; excerpts from Samuel Harsnett's A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures; materials from the Annesley Case; and the happy ending from Nahum Tate's version of the play, which held the stage for 150 years after its first performance in 1681. This is one of several Broadview Anthology of British Literature Editions being released this year; those wishing to teach the text will have the option of including the convenient stand-alone book as part of a specially-priced shrink-wrapped package together with a volume of the anthology.Trade Review“The Broadview chooses the Folio as the basic text, but, significantly, adds notes throughout that point out the differences appearing in the Quarto version. In addition, in the case of the three scenes in which differences are most pronounced, the anthology prints both Folio and Quarto versions side by side. This method opens up illuminating and exciting possibilities in the classroom.... I regard the unhesitating confrontation with the difficulties of King Lear that is shown by the Broadview editors as a microcosmic illustration of the toughness, determination, and conscientiousness of the editors throughout this entire British literature anthology.” — Robert H. Ray, Baylor University (author of Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s King Lear)“... an exciting achievement ... It sets a new standard by which all other anthologies of British Literature will now have to be measured.” — Graham Hammill, SUNY—Buffalo“The Broadview Anthology of British Literature is no mere pretender to the throne long held by Norton; it is the new standard.” — Richard Nordquist, Armstrong Atlantic State UniversityTable of Contents Introduction William Shakespeare 1564–1616 King Lear King Lear In Context The Shakespearean Theater The Swan Theatre Titus Andronicus in Performance The Plot of an Elizabethan Play Early Editions of King Lear Source Material from Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain (12th century) Cap o’ Rushes from Anonymous, The True Chronicle History of King Leir and his Three Daughters (1605) from Raphael Holinshed, The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1577, 1587) from Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1590) The Annesley Case from Samuel Harsnett, A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures (1603) King Lear on Stage in the Seventeenth Century from Richard Johnson, “The Ballad of King Lear and his Three Daughters” (1620) from Nahum Tate, The History of King Lear (1681)
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Broadview Press Ltd The Broadview Anthology of British Literature:
Book SynopsisIntended for courses with a major focus on poetry during the Romantic period, this volume includes all the poetry selections from Volume 4 of The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, along with a number of works newly edited for this volume. The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Poetry maintains the Broadview Anthology of British Literature’s characteristic balance of canonical favorites and lesser-known gems, featuring a breadth of poetry from William Blake to Phillis Wheatley, from Ebenezer Elliott to Felicia Hemans. To give a sense of the full sweep of the Romantic period, the anthology incorporates important early figures from William Collins to Phillis Wheatley, as well as works by Victorians—such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Alfred, Lord Tennyson—for whom Romanticism was a formative force. “Contexts” sections provide valuable background on cultural matters such as “The Natural and the Sublime” and “The Abolition of Slavery,” while the companion website offers a wealth of additional resources and primary works. Longer works newly prepared for the bound book include Byron’s Manfred and The Giaour, Keats’s Hyperion, and substantial selections from Wordsworth’s fourteen-book Prelude; authors newly added for this volume include Hannah Cowley, Hannah More, Ann Yearsley, Robert Southey, and Thomas Moore.Trade ReviewPraise for The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Poetry:“At last, an anthology that lets us explore in detail the remarkable depth and breadth of British poetry during the long Romantic period, and to do so from a genuinely interdisciplinary perspective that embraces the range of social, political, economic, scientific and cultural developments of that protean era, including issues of gender, race, class and religion. The ample and judicious selections splendidly illustrate the rich diversity of Romantic poetry in all its forms, while the abundant contextual materials—including the lavish illustrations—situate that poetry within its contemporary intellectual, historical, artistic and cultural contexts. Concise editorial annotations deftly and unobtrusively guide readers through complex or unfamiliar territory and profitably supplement the excellent introductory and supplementary essays. Here is an anthology for all seasons of Romanticism studies, and for students at all levels.” — Stephen C. Behrendt, University of Nebraska“ … [A]n exciting moment for all teachers in the field of Romanticism and poetry. Broadview has led the way in the new generation of literature anthologies, and the Romantic Poetry volume offers a characteristic breadth of verse selections from the expanded canon, accompanied by contemporary treatises and commentaries on an array of topics vital to the twenty-first-century classroom: from debates on gender and slavery, to Britain’s imperial and colonial project, to revolutionary politics and the first stresses of industrialization. All this is enriched with illustrations evocative of the budding visual culture of the period, and contained in a single volume that is as thorough as any instructor could wish, while not intimidating to the student in its heft or price.” — Gillen Wood, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign“The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Poetry … offers a marvelously diverse body of material; it is much more comprehensive than any other available anthology of British Romantic writings … This is a fine anthology, imaginative and innovative in the way it is organized and rich in the options it offers for access to less anthologized, less generally available works by the British Romantic poets.” — Waqas Khwaja, Agnes Scott College“The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Poetry is the most comprehensive collection of verse and prose from this period available today. Scrupulously and judiciously edited, it combines selections from a wide array of major and lesser-known Romantic poets and critics of both genders and from many regions with invaluable introductory essays and rich contextual materials … It is surely to become the standard anthology in the field. I know I will be using it from now on.” — Alexander Dick, University of British Columbia“The new Broadview Anthology of Romantic Poetry is as thoughtfully assembled as any anthology I have seen. It presents a diverse chorus of voices from the period, representing both the traditional canon of romantic writers and also, exhilaratingly, extending beyond that canon, with selections from poets such as Wheatley, Barbauld, Burns, Clare, and Landon, among others. From the editors’ outstanding introductory essay—clear, original, vibrant—to its incredibly rich selection of writings, which are generously and gently annotated, to the enthralling and complex contextual materials covering subjects such as India and the Orient, non-human animals in nature, and steam power, this anthology explores and elaborates “the romantic” in a way that is sure to dazzle students, to enrich their experience of this period’s literature and to enhance classroom discussion of it. The Broadview will be the new gold standard for instructional texts in the field. — Christopher Rovee, Louisiana State University“I am so glad to find this anthology. The selections are outstanding, the illustrations excellent, and the contextual material is sound. This book will make my course much more powerful than it would have been had I used a standard anthology supplemented with e-texts.” — Gary Harrison, University of New MexicoPraise for The Age of Romanticism:“ … I am very impressed.… A wealth of cultural and historical information is provided.… The introductions show subtle expertise.… Here, as in the other volumes, the editors bring English literary tradition to life.” — Wendy Nielsen, Montclair State UniversityComments on The Broadview Anthology of British Literature:“ … sets a new standard by which all other anthologies of British Literature will now have to be measured.” — Graham Hammill, SUNY Buffalo“With the publication of the Broadview Anthology of British Literature, teachers and students in survey and upper-level undergraduate courses have a compelling alternative to the established anthologies by Norton and Longman. … This is a very real intellectual, as well as pedagogical, achievement.” — Nicholas Watson, Harvard University“ … an excellent anthology. Good selections for my purposes (including some nice surprises), just the right level of annotation, affordable—and a hit with my students. I will definitely use it again.” — Ira Nadel, University of British ColumbiaTable of Contents William Collins Oliver Goldsmith William Cowper Hannah Cowley Anna Laetitia Barbauld Hannah More Sir William Jones Charlotte Smith Phyllis Wheatley George Crabbe Ann Yearsley William Blake Mary Robinson Contexts: Women and Society Robert Burns Joanna Baillie William Taylor Ann Batten Cristall William Wordsworth Sir Walter Scott Dorothy Wordsworth Contexts: The Natural and the Sublime Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert Southey Mary Tighe Contexts: The Abolition of Slavery Thomas Moore Ebenezer Elliott George Gordon, Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley Felicia Hemans John Clare John Keats Letitia Elizabeth Landon Thomas Beddoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning Alfred Tennyson
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Broadview Press Ltd The Siege of Jerusalem: A Broadview Anthology of
Book SynopsisThe Siege of Jerusalem (c. 1370-90 CE) is a difficult text. By twenty-first-century standards, it is gruesomely violent and offensive. It tells the story of the Roman destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE, an event viewed by its author (as by many in the Middle Ages) as divine retribution against Jews for the killing of Christ. It anachronistically turns first-century Roman emperors Titus and Vespasian into Christian converts who battle like medieval crusaders to avenge their savior and cleanse the Holy Land of enemies of the faith. It makes little sense without frank understanding of medieval Christian anti-Semitism. There is, nevertheless, some consensus that Siege is a finely crafted piece of poetry, and that its combination of horror, beauty, and learnedness makes it an effective work of art. As literary scholar A.C. Spearing has put it, “We may not like what the poet does, but it is done with skillful craftsmanship and sometimes with brilliant virtuosity.” The tale that the anonymous Siege poet tells, moreover, is an important and still reverberating part of the history of Western thinking about the East. It is, in Yehuda Amichai’s phrase, a “currency of the past” that continues to be negotiated. The first-century destruction of Jerusalem has been understood in both Christian and Jewish traditions as the beginning of the Jewish Diaspora; for medieval Christians it was also a model of successful Christian leadership and justified warfare, an allegory of political and personal spiritual battle. As part of the story of the historical rift between Christianity and Judaism—and of the inevitable victory of Christianity—the destroyed Second Temple was taken as symbolic of the fall of Judaism and the rise of the new Christian era in which anyone who rejected Christ would suffer.Written in alliterative verse in the late fourteenth century, The Siege of Jerusalem seems to have been popular in its day; at least nine fourteenth- and fifteen-century manuscripts containing the poem have come down to us. Yet this is the first volume to offer a full Modern English translation. In addition, appendices provide extensive samples of the alliterative original, a wide-ranging compendium of materials documenting anti-Semitism in the Middle Ages, comparative biblical passages, and much else.Trade Review“This translation of the alliterative Siege of Jerusalem—and the volume to which it belongs—will provide a much-needed pedagogical resource.” — Timothy Stinson, North Carolina State University“The appearance of Williams Boyarin’s translation of The Siege of Jerusalem will be a welcome step in the recent reconsideration of that fourteenth-century poem, which was famously characterized by Ralph Hanna as “the chocolate-covered tarantula” of alliterative poetry. After decades of relative neglect, in the past ten years The Siege of Jerusalem has come to seem quite timely in its frank parading of East-West violence, religious war, and cultural bigotry. This translation will allow the poem to move into undergraduate classrooms, where it will sit uneasily but productively alongside such texts as Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale.” — Heather Blurton, University of California Santa Barbara“It can be a daunting task to grapple with a text that enjoys the memorable critical reputation of being a ‘chocolate-covered tarantula.’ Yet, Adrienne Williams Boyarin’s translation and contextualization of The Siege of Jerusalem has accomplished precisely that—she has pinned down that candied arachnid on a velvet block and, in so doing, has reframed the discussions around this poem’s wider participation in ‘intellectual and literary histories.’ The main translation distinguishes itself as both sensitive to the alliterative cadences of fourteenth-century Middle English poetry and also to the sense of the sweep of this complex, historically-based alliterative poem, paying close attention to what the editor and translator identifies as the specific ‘vocabulary, ambiguities, and repetitions.’ For general readers and students, it will be an invaluable entrance into this fascinating and quite popular text. … Adrienne Williams Boyarin’s framework—the introduction and selection of contextual documents—will reopen critical discussions; it will shape future scholarship on the Siege of Jerusalem.” — Dorothy Kim, Vassar College“Boyarin’s modernization evokes all the alliterative spit of the original. Her book fills itself out, too, with selections from the Middle English text and from others that bear on the poem’s setting, its possible sources and analogues, and its shared cultural contexts. More than merely updating an old poem, Boyarin presents a veritable anthology of medieval anti-Judaism.” — Seth Lerer, Times Literary Supplement“Boyarin’s Modern English translation of The Siege of Jerusalem is the first of its kind, and a valuable undergraduate classroom resource. … In addition to a skillfully produced translation, Boyarin offers an introduction, brief summary, and a final section to her edition; this latter section, entitled, ‘In Context,’ features primary source excerpts useful to audiences [and] … contextualizes the poem’s anti-Semitisms through the lenses of crusade violence and ritual murder … , opening and supporting intelligent conversation about the poem’s attitudes toward non-Christians, and its place in premodern culture.” — Suzanne M. Yeager, ArthuriannaTable of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Introduction The Siege of Jerusalem Appendix A: The Middle English Siege of Jerusalem Prologue, lines 1-35 Passus 3, lines 573-608 Passus 5, lines 1069-1100 Appendix B: The Siege of Jerusalem and the Bible: Key Passages 1 Maccabees 6 The Gospel According to Matthew 10.1-15 The Gospel According to Matthew 24.14-15 and 27.1-9 The Gospel According to Luke 19.37-48 and 21.5-28 The Gospel According to Luke 22.63-23.38 The Gospel According to John 11.47-56 and 18.3-19.21 Revelation 21 Appendix C: The Siege of Jerusalem and Medieval Christian Legend From The Golden Legend, c. 1260 a. From "The Passion of the Lord" (Pontius Pilate, St. Veronica) b. From "Saint James, Apostle" (St. James, the destruction of Jerusalem) c. From "Saint Peter, Apostle" (St. Peter, St. Paul, Nero) Appendix D: Other Medieval Anti-Semitisms and the Crusader Conquest of Jerusalem Crusade Violence in Historical Writings 1. From Albert of Aachen, History of the Journey to Jerusalem (c. 1125-50) 2. From Eliezar bar Nathan, Gezerot Tatnu [Persecutions of 1096] (c. 1150) 3. From Raymond d'Aguilers, History of the Frankish Conquerors of Jerusalem (c. 1100) 4. From William of Newburgh, The History of English Affairs (c. 1198) 5. Ephraim of Bonn, "Tatkan-tatkana b'Angleterre" ["In England, 1189"] (c. 1196) Ritual Murder Libel: The Case of William of Norwich (c. 1173) Ecclesiastical and Secular Legal Documents 1. Pope Innocent III, Canons and Decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) 2. A Bull of Pope Gregory X (1272) 3. Statute of the Jewry, England (1275) Popular Literature: Miracles of the Virgin and Mandeville's Travels 1. From The South English Legendary, "The Jewish Boy" and "The Jews of Toledo" (c. 1280) 2. From the Vernon Manuscript, "The Child Slain by Jews" (c. 1390) 3. From John Mirk’s Festial, "How a Monk Painted a Miraculous Image" (c. 1390) 4. From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (c. 1360) Christian Dates in relation to the Destruction of the Second Temple: A Jewish Response, from Abraham Zacuto, Sefer Yuhasin [Book of Lineage] (c. 1500) Works Cited and Recommended Reading
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Broadview Press Ltd Othello: A Broadview Internet Shakespeare Edition
Book SynopsisAlthough other Shakespeare plays offer higher body counts, more gore, and more plentiful scenes of heartbreak, Othello packs an unusually powerful affective punch, stunning us with its depiction of the swiftness and thoroughness with which love can be converted to hatred, and forcing us to confront our complicity with social and political institutions that can put all of us—but especially the most vulnerable among us—at risk.This edition features a variety of interleaved materials—from facsimile pages and musical scores to illustrations and extended discussions of myth and folklore—that provide a context for the social and cultural allusions in the play. Appendices offer excerpts from Shakespeare’s key sources and historical materials on marriage, jealousy, and the treatment of people of African descent in Elizabethan England.A collaboration between Broadview Press and the Internet Shakespeare Editions project at the University of Victoria, the editions developed for this series have been comprehensively annotated and draw on the authoritative texts newly edited for the ISE. This innovative series allows readers to access extensive and reliable online resources linked to the print edition.Trade Review“The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice has found here its ideal edition for our times. In addition to Jessica Slight’s unfussy and accessible text, the Broadview/Internet Shakespeare Edition offers an up-to-date selection of images, sources, analogs, and historical readings, many of them not seen before in connection with Othello. Race, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, household governance, and early modern psychology receive broad and deep attention, inviting readers to encounter Shakespeare’s play in strikingly contemporary terms.” — Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsFOREWORDACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTIONSHAKESPEARE’S LIFESHAKESPEARE’S THEATERWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND OTHELLOA BRIEF CHRONOLOGYTHE DATE OF THE PLAYA NOTE ON THE TEXTTHE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICEAPPENDIX A: SOURCES AND EARLY ANALOGS From Cinthio, Gli Heccatommithi (1565) From Geoffrey Fenton, Certain Tragical Discourses (1567) From George Peele, The Battle of Alcazar (1588–89) From Robert Greene, Selimus (1594) From William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus (1594) From William Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnets 57 and 58 (1609) From Thomas Coryate, Coryats Crudities (1611) From Maurice G. Dowling, Othello Travestie (1836) APPENDIX B: CULTURAL CONTEXTS Prayers for Protection against Ottoman Attacks a. A form to be used in common prayer (1565)b. Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, A form to be used in common prayer (1566) Elizabeth I, Letters Permitting Deportation of Blackamoors from England (1596–97) a. 11 July 1596b. 18 July 1596 From Robert Cleaver, A Godly Form of Household Government for the Ordering of Private Families (1598) From Thomas Wright, The Passions of the Mind in General (1604) From Ste[phen?] B., Counsel to the Husband: To the Wife Instruction (1608) From Nicholas Coeffeteau, “Of Jealousy, Whether it Be an Effect and Sign of Love” (1621) WORKS CITED AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Broadview Press Ltd Selimus
Book SynopsisThis Broadview Edition of Robert Greene’s Selimus is the first single-volume, modernized edition of this underrated dramatic gem in over a century. First published in 1594, the play grippingly stages the bloody fratricidal warfare inaugurating the reign of Selim I (1512-20) as emperor of the Ottoman Empire. Contributing to the expansion of the range of readily available non-Shakespearean early modern English plays, the edition is designed for scholars and students alike, in the study, classroom, or theatre. The critically edited text of the play is accompanied by a full introduction, comprehensive annotations, and ample contextual material from the early modern period, including Greene’s pamphlet Greene’s Groatsworth of Wit.Trade Review“Having masterfully edited Marlowe’s original for Broadview, Mathew R. Martin now turns his attention to Selimus, one of the so-called ‘Sons of Tamburlaine.’ Martin’s judicious notes, commentary, and appendices ensure that students and scholars alike can make sense of the play’s complex web of Machiavellian intrigue, its engagement with contemporary anxieties about atheism, Islam, and empire, and its place in the repertory of the Queen’s Men.” — Brett Greatley-Hirsch, University of Leeds“This fine, user-friendly edition does a terrific job of contextualizing and explaining the play, showing its place in Elizabethan theatrical culture and making it newly accessible to readers. It reveals Selimus as not just blood and thunder but also an important document in the history of both Western perceptions of Islam and the emergence of atheism and Machiavellianism as philosophical positions.” — Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University“This edition of Selimus gives us a provocative follow-up to Mathew Martin’s earlier editorial work on The Jew of Malta and Tamburlaine the Great. With an informative introduction and a wealth of detailed annotations, Martin alerts readers to the play’s essential socio-political and cultural contexts, especially those having to do with atheism and with Anglo-Ottoman relations in the medieval and early modern periods. Timely and informative, Martin’s Selimus will appeal as much to scholars and students interested in the eclectic canon of Queen’s Men plays as to book buyers wanting to expand their knowledge of Elizabethan drama.” — Kirk Melnikoff, University of North Carolina CharlotteTable of Contents AcknowledgementsIntroductionRobert Greene: A Brief Chronology of his Life and TimesA Note on the TextThe First Part of the Tragical Reign of Selimus, Sometime Emperor of the Turks Appendix A: Robert Greene, Greene’s Groatsworth of Wit (1592)Appendix B: Atheism and Machiavellianism 1. From Innocent Gentillet, A Discourse Upon the Means of Well Governing and Maintaining in Good Peace a Kingdom or Other Principality … Against Nicholas Machiavel the Florentine (1602) 2. Thomas Kyd, Letters to Sir John Puckering about Christopher Marlowe (1593) 3. Richard Baines, “A note containing the opinion of Christopher Marlowe concerning his damnable judgment of religion and scorn of God’s word” (1593) 4. From Francis Bacon, “Of Atheism” (1625) Appendix C: Early Modern English Representations of Islam 1. From George Whetstone, The English Mirror (1586) 2. From Anonymous, Sir Bevis of Hampton (1585) 3. From Giles Fletcher, The Policy of the Turkish Empire (1597) Works Cited and Further Reading
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Broadview Press Antigone
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Guernica Editions Two Tales Jamali Kamali and ZundelState
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Guernica Editions Poetry in Place
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Anvil Press Publishers Inc The Least You Can Do Is Be Magnificent: Selected
Book SynopsisFor over thirty years, Steve Venright has devoted himself to the liberation of the imagination, documenting hallucinatory trips through Southwestern Ontario's deliriomantic landscapes with his signature puns, portmanteaus, and spoonerisms. The Least You Can Do Is Be Magnificent: Selected & New Writings is a generous gathering of Venright's most enduring and extraordinary poems, including the revised and expanded "Manta Ray Jack and the Crew of the Spooner," the most outlandish and hilarious seafaring tale since Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark. This volume also features an in-depth examination of Venright's work by scholar Alessandro Porco.
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Anvil Press Rue
Book SynopsisIn her compelling debut poetry collection, shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award, Melissa Bull explores the familial, romantic, and sexual ties that bind lives to cities. Rue takes us through its alleys, parks, and kitchens with a robust lyricism and language that is at once inventive and plainspoken, compassionate and frank. In English, to rue is to regret; in French, la rue is the street Rue''s poems provide the venue for moments of both recollection and motion. Punctuated withneologisms and the bilingual dialogue of Montreal, the collection explores the author''s upbringing in the working-class neighbourhood of St. Henri with her artist mother, follows her travels, friendships, and loves across North America, Europe, and Russia, and recounts her journalist father''s struggles with terminal brain cancer. Inspired by powerful Quebec talents like Nelly Arcan, Marie-Sissy Labrèche, playwright Annick Lefebvre, Canadians poets Elizabeth Bachinsky, Nikki Reimer and David McGimpsey, Melissa Bull brings an unflinching new feminist voice to the Canadian literary scene.
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Anvil Press Publishers Inc A Temporary Stranger
Book SynopsisA Temporary Stranger is comprised of three sections: Homages, Fake Poems, and Recollections. In Homages we find poems of reverence and honour, tributes to writers who had opened up the world of poetry to Jamie. There are poems to Spicer, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Breton, Francis Ponge, Tristan Tzara and others. At the centre of A Temporary Stranger are the Fake Poems, so called because "There is no art on earth that can fully represent the exact and flowing experience of viewing stone within the flow of water and the waving light within the water and around the stone, and the subsequent sense of awe and beauty that arises in the interaction between the seer and the seen... . In that sense, all art is fake... " The third section, Recollections, is an assemblage of articles paeans, really - to Robin Blaser, bill bissett, Warren Tallman, John Newlove, Curt Lang, Nellie McClung, Artie Gold, Kim Goldberg, Kate Braid, and others. Here, as friend and editor Karl Siegler states in his Foreword, "we encounter memory-not as a form of nostalgia for a bygone golden age of a romanticised pastoral arcadia ... but as an historical record of who did what when, and to what end, throughout the counterculture revolution that shaped the lives of Jamie Reid and his companions over the past six decades."
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Anvil Press Publishers Inc I Could Have Pretended to Be Better Than You: New
Book SynopsisSpanning more than 25 years, I Could Have Pretended to Be Better Than You gathers work from three distinct eras of Jay Millar's development as a poet: the wonder years of the 1990s culled from a variety of self-published micropress publications, most of which are hiding in special collections; poems from his trade books issued between 2000 and 2015; and, new poems that have emerged during his present condition as one of Canada's most progressive co-publishers. The broad view that this collection offers enables an appreciation of Millar's work as both an idiosyncratic, herkyjerk chronicle of small press culture and a multifaceted mode of questioning how we judge sensations, failures, affections, and relationships. However irreverent he may seem, Jay Millar possesses a disarmingly honest, inventive sensibility closely attuned to the everyday, the overlooked, the transient. Be careful where on your bookshelf of Canadian poetry you place this volume: it might very well set others askew.
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Anvil Press Publishers Inc Slinky Naive
Book SynopsisIn this debut collection, Caroline Szpak is the grand ventriloquist, manipulating words and voices in strange and fantastical ways. Her phrases, her metaphors and similes, slam up against each other like strangers on the street. Apologies, changes in direction, barometric pressure, objects ping and ricochet, but some residual thing clings after the parting. We acknowledge, we recognize, we nod knowingly, and not just from familiarity but because her words have snapped our head forward. And we realize the dummy on her lap, frozen and smiling, is us, and the jaw drops from laughter and dismay, but just as often it drops in awe. Advance Praise for Slinky Naive: "The urban, visceral, longing-infused poems in Slinky Naive are fast, dense, and laser-focused. And when the lines are funny, and they often are, it's like laughing before the blade comes down. Caroline Szpak is doing exactly what poets should do: she is doing something no one else is doing." (Stuart Ross, author of Pockets and A Sparrow Came Down Resplendent)
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Anvil Press Publishers Inc On the Count of None
Book SynopsisOn the Count of None is the first full-length poetry collection by Kingston poet Allison Chisholm. The surprising poems in this audacious debut explore the relationship between the serious and the absurd, the formal and the illogical, whimsy and threat, and meaning and tone. Chisholms poems, whose content is often inspired by guidebooks, podcasts, birth notices, and other unlikely sources, are pretty sneaky: they seem to always be trying to get away with something. Sometimes they try to get away with sneaking in invented words and idioms and facts. These are poems whose language looks both ways before licking the envelope.
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Anvil Press The Revolving City: 51 Poems and the Stories
Book SynopsisFinalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award The Revolving City: 51 Poems and the Stories Behind Them is a vibrant and diverse collection from a who''s who of the west coast poetry scene. The poems assembled here range from the lyric to the experimental and address the theme of disconnection in an urban environment from a variety of positions, concerns, and cultural perspectives. The collection also includes short reflections on the poems, written by the poets themselves, providing readers with an intimate insight into the inspiration and meaning behind the poems. The Revolving City anthology evolved out of the Lunch Poems reading series, a stimulating exchange of poetic ideas and cadence held the third Wednesday of every month in public space at Simon Fraser University''s Vancouver campus. The Revolving City seeks to build community, extend poetry to new audiences, and reflect the rich diversity of the poetry scene both local and distant. Edited by much-lauded writer and director of the Writer''s Studio, Wayde Compton, and award-winning poet Renée Sarojini Saklikar. Contributors: Jordan Abel, Joanne Arnott, Elizabeth Bachinsky, Dennis E. Bolen, George Bowering, Tim Bowling, Colin Browne, Stephen Collis, Wayde Compton, Peter Culley, Jen Currin, Phinder Dulai, Daniela Elza, Mercedes Eng, Maxine Gadd, Heidi Greco, Heather Haley, Ray Hsu, Aislinn Hunter, Mariner Janes, Reg Johanson, Wanda John-Kehewin, Rahat Kurd, Sonnet L''Abbé, Fiona Tinwei Lam, Evelyn Lau, Christine Leclerc, Donato Mancini, Daphne Marlatt, Susan McCaslin, Kim Minkus, Cecily Nicholson, Billeh Nickerson, Juliane Okot Bitek, Catherine Owen, Miranda Pearson, Meredith Quartermain, Jamie Reid, Rachel Rose, Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Jordan Scott, Sandy Shreve, George Stanley, Rob Taylor, Jacqueline Turner, Fred Wah, Betsy Warland, Calvin Wharton, Rita Wong, Changming Yuan, and Daniel Zomparelli. Praise for The Revolving City: In these fiercely competitive and egotistical times, what a relief when established poets stand alongside and support emerging ones. The poems - passionate, com-passionate and critical at once, investigating, as Meredith Quartermain puts it, ''the physical, the historical, the cultural and the linguistic grounds'' of the city - are deepened by each poet''s reflection on their own work. Here are the cultural voices of Canada''s today and tomorrow. Listen. You will be hearing more. (Kate Braid, author of Turning Left to the Ladies and Rough Grounds Revisited) Plato said poets are the people least likely to be able to say anything enlightening about the craft. He was a curmudgeon for thinking that, but not entirely wrong, because good poems derive less from the intellect than from the solar plexus, the bone marrow, or what Yeats called ''the rag-and-bone shop of the heart.'' It''s so hard to write a good poem that poets leap at the chance to talk about what they were trying to achieve, or how it came to pass; and these ruminations are always more personal and often more engaging than the poems themselves. The Revolving City celebrates this wonderful dichotomy and, at times, blessedly defies it. (Gary Geddes, author of What Does a House Want? and editor of 20th-Century Poetry and Poetics) The Revolving City not only manages to emphasize the importance of breaking social divides, but it also reveals the inherently effective power poetry has in expressing issues of societal significance. (The Ubyssey)
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Anvil Press Publishers Inc I Heard Something
Book SynopsisIn her uncompromising follow-up to 2012's Sympathy Loophole, Jaime Forsythe offers a breathless cascade of evocative somethings: mysterious sounds, faint rumblings, biographies real and imagined, tabloid rumours, nagging memories, an animal stirring, a baby waking, a storm threatening, an escape hatch beckoning, and an inexplicable machine coughing into motion somewhere in the distance. The poems in I Heard Something comprise a surreal menagerie - at times funny, chilling, and tender - of what it is to be a human at this very minute. Forsythe writes startling poems for the startled. Cup a hand around your ear as you read these poems - it'll enhance the experience.
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Anvil Press Publishers Inc A Mysterious Humming Noise
Book SynopsisHoward White says, "Some poets try to capture rare butterflies in their writing. The things I go after are more like houseflies." The comparison does him no favours but it is true inasmuch as his writing is notably unpretentious and concerned with common and everyday realities. That is, if your everyday realities include such things as sinking docks, driving bulldozers, arguing about sand, baseball, pouring without a funnel, dancing in the street, thought guns, coition, brainfarts, not sending sympathy cards, not shooting your father, and sea otters. In this book he also writes quite a bit about writing, not so much the kind of personal writing he does in this book so much as that he has done as an "accidental chronicler" for "a galaxy of voices" he acted as a "conduit" for in his work as a memoirist and publisher.
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Anvil Press Publishers Inc Sustenance: Writers from BC and Beyond on the
Book SynopsisWriters from BC and Beyond on the Subject of Food will bring to the table some of Canada's best contemporary writers, celebrating all that is unique about Vancouver's literary and culinary scene. Punctuated by beautiful local food photographs, interviews with and recipes from some of our top local chefs, each of these short pieces will shock, comfort, praise, entice, or invite reconciliation, all while illuminating our living history through the lens of food. Sustenance is also a community response to the needs of new arrivals or low-income families in our city. Writers will be donating their honoraria to the Farmers Market Nutrition Coupon Program. A portion of sales from every book will to towards providing a refugee or low-income family with fresh, locally grown produce, and at the same time will support BC farmers, fishers, beekeepers, and gardeners. Award-winning chefs, poets and writers in Sustenance include: Frank Pabst (Chef, Blue Water Café), Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Mark Winston, Susan Musgrave, Lorna Crozier, Thomas Haas (artisan chocolatier), Meeru Dhalwalla (Chef, Vij's and Rangoli), Ayelet Tsabari, and Adèle Barclay.
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