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What was Mozart really like? Wild? Sublime? Responsible? Fun-loving? Bright? Foul-mouthed? Reading these sparkling new translations of Mozart's letters, we learn in his own words that he was all of these and much more. Here is the composer at his most intimate and unguarded, expressing his feelings about life, love, music and the world around him.

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Among the crew is Ishmael, the novel's narrator, ordinary sailor, and extraordinary reader. Digressive, allusive, vulgar, transcendent, the story Ishmael tells is above all an education: in the practice of whaling, in the art of writing. Expanding to equal his ‘mighty theme’ – not only the whale but all things sublime – Melville breathes in the world's great literature. Moby Dick is the greatest novel ever written by an American.

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Helen Maria Williams was a poet, novelist, and radical thinker deeply immersed in the political struggles of the 1790s. Her Letters Written in France is the first and most important of eight volumes chronicling the French Revolution to an England fearful of another civil war. Her twenty-six letters recounting old regime tyranny and revolutionary events provide both an apology for the Revolution and a representation of it as sublime spectacle.

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First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out of the lives of Manhattan office workers, a cab driver seeking immortality, frustrated would-be novelists, suburban men and their yearning, neglected women, Richard Yates creates a haunting mosaic of the 1950s, the era when the American dream was finally coming true - and just beginning to ring a little hollow.

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Con ocasión del primer centenario del nacimiento de Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner publicó el breve ensayo Beethoven (1870), en el que construye, siguiendo el pensamiento de Schopenhauer e inspirándose en las ideas estéticas de Goethe y Schiller, toda una teoría de la música, esa experiencia que nos fusiona con la totalidad de la naturaleza, acercándonos al infinito, un más allá de la belleza: lo sublime, algo que nos colma y que excita en nosotros el éxtasis de la consciencia de lo ilimitado. Beethoven, el modelo de músico, elevó lo estético a la categoría de lo sublime, liberándolo de las antiguas formas convencionales, conquistando así la melodía que su genio, encarnación del espíritu alemán, emancipó de todo influjo a la moda y todo mudable gusto, creando una música válida para todos los tiempos. Wagner le atribuye haber conseguido un modelo de música sinfónica para formular el canto, con su Novena Sinfonía.Para Blas Matamoro, encargado de la edición de este libro, Wagner

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REUNIMOS en este tomo segundo de las Poesías completas de Emily Dickinson los poemas que van del número 601 al 1200, según la edición canónica de Johnson (1955). Pese a la leyenda, cierta, de su vida aislada, Dickinson no fue ajena en absoluto al clima intelectual de su época. Registró como pocos escritores norteamericanos de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX la influencia del padre de aquella literatura, Ralph Waldo Emerson. La poesía de nuestra autora bien puede encuadrarse en el clima de influencia del trascendentalismo norteamericano, en la búsqueda de un Sublime propio. El hombre, y especialmente el escritor, debía encontrar una relación original con el universo. Dickinson, pues, lleva a cabo en estos poemas una teoría del Ser que no se conforma con menos que el aspirar a lo absoluto y a tener un efecto perpetuo. Sus poemas sobre la naturaleza, tan abundantes, en realidad están hablando de la fuerza de encarnación del espíritu, del arraigo en la tierra de un Sublime que convierte esa

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'High-concept, formally daring, and sonically rich [...] What a tremendous gift to readers to witness a poetics balanced so deftly between intellect and instinct.' - Kayo Chingonyi In myth, the Pillars of Hercules near the Straits of Gibraltar mark the edge of what was then the known world, with the warning Ne plus ultra - No more beyond. Beyond power, beyond the sublime, beyond love, PLUS ULTRA begins where other poetry gives up. Sarah Fletcher's dazzling debut collection pushes at the world, reaching towards the 'beyond' of its title poem to explore questions of power, romance, pain and the sublime. These poems challenge, play and press, but also carry an anxiety around borders: what is 'beyond'? What happens when you reach the boundary and keep going? With a sharp, Plathian interrogative voice Fletcher's poems prowl the bars and night-haunts of Madrid and London, and in rich, mythic language plumb the below-places where discoveries are made, drowned, and left behind.

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In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments, ill-fated holiday romances, office trysts, schoolgirl crushes, tentative courtships, rampant infidelity, tender devotion and terrifying madness. By turns sly and sweet, earthy and sublime, these fables of flawed love blend black humour and macabre spectacle with transformative moments of grace.

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La ?Crítica del discernimiento, o de la facultad de juzgar? (1790), de Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) fue aclamada por Goethe como la más influyente de las obras kantianas, por tratar al mismo tiempo del arte y de la naturaleza, mientras que Hannah Arendt haría, por su parte, una lectura política de sus páginas. En su tercera ?Crítica? Kant culmina el itinerario de su reflexión filosófica, abordando problemas relacionados con la estética y con la teleología. Aquí se trata sobre lo bello y lo sublime, sobre lo sublime como símbolo de la moralidad y sobre las ficciones heurísticas que pueden orientar nuestro conocimiento de la naturaleza, entre muchos otros temas que son analizados en sus respectivos estudios introductorios por los autores de esta nueva edición castellana, responsables igualmente del aparato crítico y del útil índice conceptual que acompaña a la obra. Otros títulos de Kant publicados en esta misma colección: ?Qué es la Ilustración?, ?Fundamentación para una metafísica de las

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Alli Warren’s I Love It Though looks hard at the material and affective world we’ve inherited, including the ordinariness of the sublime and the sublimity and transcendence of what’s most ordinary. This book makes meaning of our contemporary moment, both sharp and vulnerable, concrete and musical. These poems are committed to living in the present, delirious with outrage and hope for something better.

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Here is the ultimate golf reference book, meant to feed golfers’ insatiable hunger for the statistics and trivia of their game. This book answers such burning questions as who broke the most clubs during a single temper tantrum (Lefty Stackhouse, 14) and the rationale behind 18 holes (it was completely arbitrary). From the sublime to the ridiculous, these fun facts will thoroughly entertain from tee to green.

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Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungarian violinist; unprepared to learn about the Mendax device; unprepared for more murders and wholly unprepared for the truth. Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. 'Hilarious' Literary Review 'Sublime' Cosmopolitan

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Una crónica de la sublime historia e ideas peculiares de la muerte y el más allá, esta inquietante cronología se adentra en las barreras fractales de la psicología, cultura, biología y física, explorando temas como los dioses mayas de la muerte, goles, espiritismos, zombis e inmortalidad cuántica. En cada página encontrará bellas imágenes de la muerte de lo que puede haber al otro lado.

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Mysterious stone formations, overgrown primeval forests, arctic ice floes – Max Schmid’s photographs bear witness to the fact that Switzerland is not just a land of Alpine idylls and snowy mountains. One might be in Australia, Greenland or some other unexplored area of the planet forgotten by humans. Sublime, bare, lush, colorful, romantic or even apocalyptic – this volume proves just how incredibly diverse Swiss landscape can be.

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Written mostly in Scots, Rab Wilson's A Map for the Blind deals with topics ranging from satirical social commentary to sublime shots of everyday life with his characteristic wit and insight. From a poignant reflection into the 'black hairt' of the coal industry, to a nostalgic and spirited look at classic bicycles, to wondering if anyone was listening to 'Holy Gordon's Prayer', Rab Wilson delivers a vibrant picture of Scotland which we can't fail to recognise.

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Mourning Modernism: Literature, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Consolation examines the writing of catastrophe, mass death, and collective loss in 20th-century literature and criticism. With particular focus on texts by Virginia Woolf, Walter Benjamin, and W.G. Sebald, Mourning Modernism engages the century’s signal preoccupation with “world-ending,” a mixed rhetoric of totality and rupture, finitude and survival, the end and its posthumous remainders. Fascinated with the threat of apocalypse, the century proliferates the spectacle of world-ending as a form of desire, an ambivalent compulsion to consume and outlive the “end of all.” In conversation with recent discussions of the century’s passion for the real, and taking on the century’s late aesthetics of subtraction, Mourning Modernism reads the century’s obsession with negative forms of ending and outcome. Drawing connections between the current interest in the category of trauma and the tradition of the sublime, Mourning Modernism reframes the terms of the modernist experiment and its aesthetics of the breaking-point from the lens of a late sublime.

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Los Dioses comenzaron la tarea de crear al ser humano y cada uno fue poniendo algo de sí. Pero en el proceso se mezclaron los rasgos brutos con los divinos, lo sublime con lo rastrero, lo mezquino con lo angelical? Desde los comienzos de nuestro mundo no hemos parado de tratar de desentrañar la, a veces, pesadilla o el fabuloso sueño de la existencia.En el tiempo de los dioses, la eternidad dura solo un instante. Un día, el aburrimiento y la desidia los llevaron a jugar con la arena: esculpieron un rostro, luego un cuerpo y las extremidades. Les pareció tan hermosa aquella figura que decidieron insuflarle vida. Uno tras otro, los dioses del Olimpo se acercaron al humano para depositar su don: el tiempo, el orden, la guerra, la belleza, la sabiduría? Pero era demasiado. Por eso después vinieron los animales. La existencia es la unión de lo sublime y lo rastrero, el orden y el caos, el todo y la nada? Pero qué determina cada elemento?

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American Errancy is a wide-ranging study of the connection between ideology and the sublime in the work of twentieth-century poets, all American with two, or perhaps three important exceptions. The poets chosen are in debate with the Romantic individualism of Emerson - some reject it outright, but the remainder have devoted substantial work to adjusting to the changed circumstances of their century. The link between Romantic individualism and ideological contexts has preoccupied much criticism of American literature in the last twenty years. For the most part, critics arraign this tradition, suggesting that the writers abscond from difficult political dilemmas to the realm of transcendence. In consequence, the sublime as category for thinking about literary texts has been largely abandoned. Emerson's transcendence is considered at best naive, at worst as providing the nascent corporate capitalism of the late nineteenth century with an iconography with which to execute its agenda. Justin Quinn argues that this critical approach distorts the achievement of poets in the twentieth century: many of the poets discussed extend the tradition of Romantic individualism, but they are not ideologically naive in the above sense. Their work anticipated historicist criticism of the 1980s and 1990s as they began to 'socialise' the sublime, and to explore the ways in which the inheritance of Romantic individualism could engage with ideological contexts. For some of the poets, these explorations supported their oppositional politics (i.e., Allen Ginsberg); for others, paradoxically, the explorations supported conservative politics (i.e., A. R. Ammons); others rejected the Emersonian inheritance outright (Eliot, Hill), but that rejection itself has left an enduring mark on their work.

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"How can I be now?" This is a book charting one journey from challenging times to friendship and joy. To euphoric excitement and blissful rest, from old He-Man toys, choose-your-own-adventure books, moving music in grin-packed pubs and fantastic festivals, sublime seaside solitude, and many different ways for a person to play. "Love is who we are." Adult poetry / LGBTQ+

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Fue Jesucristo un alto iniciado que alcanzó la conciencia "Crística" o, además de ello, un ser humano en quien "encarnó" el Cristo y, a través del cual, el Cristo pasó a ser el Espíritu Planetario de la Tierra? En la figura de Jesucristo pervive un misterio, tan sublime y de tanto alcance, que trasciende la capacidad de comprensión humana, por lo que apenas podemos vislumbrar las implicaciones en lo referente a la evolución de nuestro planeta y sus criaturas. 10

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?Carole Satyamurti's version of the Mahabharata moves swiftly and powerfully. She has found a voice that's capable of a wide variety of expression, and a line?basically classical English blank verse with a jazz-like freedom to swing?that propels the reader effortlessly onward through the cosmic, terrifying, erotic, sublime events of this extraordinary work. I think I shall never get tired of it.? ?PHILIP PULLMAN, author of?The Golden Compass

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Lose yourself in bestselling author Lawrence Durrell's sublime novel about a group of English tourists trapped in the minotaur's labyrinth on Crete ... 'Spellbinding ... A fine storyteller.' Guardian'Superb ... Quite simply a lovely work of art.' New York TimesA group of English tourists have come ashore from their cruise ship to explore the island of Crete. This motley crew - including a painter, spiritualist, spinster, soldier, convalescent, and elderly couple - are holidaying to seek respite from a broken post-war world. But their journey reaches a disastrous climax when they visit a cave reputed to be the legendary labyrinth of the minotaur, and become trapped within ...Set in the glorious Mediterranean landscapes which Lawrence Durrell so famously evoked in his travel writing and novels, The Dark Labyrinth is a morality tale unlike any other. Artfully blending horror and humour, comedy and tragedy, witty allegory and profound philosophy, it is a sublime novel, as refreshing today as it was decades ago. 'Superb, not only in the great passages of poetical description but also [the] casual wit and the brilliance of comment.' Observer'Will amuse those who enjoy satires on English manners and morals, engage readers who like a build-up of suspense and delight lovers of the sensuous world of the Greek islands.' New York Times

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This is where the novel has a nervous breakdown. Anna Noon is a twenty-year-old student with a taste for perverse sex involving an enigmatic older man and a ventriloquist's dummy. Anna lives in Aberdeen and her sex life revolves around the ancient stone circles in the region.The sublime grandeur of the stones provides a backdrop against which Anna is able to act out her provocative psychodramas.

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British-Iranian photographer and filmmaker Mitra Tabrizian creates an unsettling imagery out of ordinary daily life. Atmospherically, she evokes almost unreal scenes, which push reality and its inhabitants into the sublime realm of a fathomless emotional interior. She addresses the incidental and mundane, yet her agenda reaches deeper. With a unique perspective, she inquires the complex social roles of the individual. By revealing too often unnoticed phenomena of contemporary living she challenges our established conceptions of the world. The book presents all of her works since 2012.

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1979. Three old Cambridge friends are brought together at a party to celebrate New Year's Eve and the end of a decade. Esther, Liz and Alix first met in Cambridge in the early Fifties, a time when their futures held glittering promise. But with the dawn of the Thatcher era, everything changed. Now middle-aged, how will these confident women cope with the personal and professional challenges they will come to face?'A sublime example of Drabble's mastery in unravelling the intricacies of intimate relationships' - The Times

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The Highland Clearances Trail answers the where, why, what and whens of the Highland Clearances. Taking you around the significant sites of the Highland Clearances this vivid guide gives a scholarly introduction to a tragic moment in Scotland's history. Perthshire, Ross-Shire, Arran, Sutherland and Caithness are among the many areas covered. With full background information supplied, along with maps and illustrations, The Highland Clearances Trail provides an alternative route around the Highlands that will leave the reader with a deeper understanding of this sublime landscape.

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Sometimes I feel as big as a bear . . . But there will always be someone bigger than me. There are lots of ways that we can feel, so many emotions big and small. Sarah Maycock explores our feelings through a collection of animal similes and poetic prose, imagined with sublime illustrations that perfectly embody each emotion. Even a big bear can feel small sometimes and even a mouse can find the inner courage to stand tall. A mini hardback edition of Sarah Maycock's beautiful Sometimes I Feel.

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Taking readers from suburban carports to wintry Russian novels, from summer tomato gardens to the sublime interiors of presleep thoughts, Magdalena Zurawski’s poems anchor the complexities of our interconnected world in the singularity of the human experience. Balancing artistic experimentation with earnest expression, achingly real detail with dazzling prismatic abstraction, humor with frustration, light with dark, she offers a book of great human depth that is to be carried around, opened to anywhere, and encountered.

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Edmund de Waal's art speaks to his enduring fascination with the nature of objects and the attendant history of their collection and display. Confronting European and Asian traditions of intimate craftsmanship with the scale and sequence of minimalist art and music, Edmund de Waal's ensembles of porcelain vessels evoke at once the delicate measure of Agnes Martin's sublime abstract paintings and the rhythmic pulses of the music of Philip Glass and Steve Reich.

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"I am a writer because I was a reader first." Alison Gordon. "Nobody has ever written who never read." Mavis Gallant. "Reading is a connection, at once a way and a goal, a liberating destiny." Robert Kroetsch. Over 160 Canadian writers, in English and French, write about their experiences of reading. With striking photographs of each writer, Reading Writers Reading offers a sublime voyage into the heart of literary creation. Foreword by Russell Morton Brown.

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Hay realidades que emplazan unas artes. Otras, las demás. Lo misterioso y lo sublime las convocan todas. El espacio sagrado y museístico son considerados unos de los ámbitos más adecuados para la contemplación de esas realidades, para la admiración y el asombro y, sin duda, para la explosión emocional que provocan. En ambos espacios, aún gozando de diferentes densidades, órdenes y jerarquías, tiene lugar una transfiguración de la realidad visible en su autenticidad. En ellos se puede experimentar un tipo de presencia que, a menudo, solo puede ser revelada en su representación.

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Many musical and theatrical traditions walk the very narrow path between the sublime and the ridiculous, but perhaps none more so than opera, which, while maintaining an elegant reputation, makes a show out of princes making romantic speeches to soft fruit, noses being accidentally cut off and woodpeckers performing wedding ceremonies. Opera Obscura is a beautifully illustrated collection that contributes twenty-five brand new impossibly madcap operas to the canon of magnificent absurdities, along with the intricate blueprints for several incredible opera houses and information on of a whole range of almost unbelievably incredible instruments.

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What is our place in the universe? For as long as humans have asked this question, we’ve looked to the night sky for answers. Whether through sketches, scientific experiments, photography, or painting, we are fascinated by the study of what lies beyond. This handsome foil-stamped box holds fifty postcards, each with a single sublime image: pages from Galileo’s sketchbooks, Chinese star maps, artist interpretations of the universe, and rarely seen images from the NASA archives. This sparkly box is perfect for your favorite stargazer or celestial-inspired friend.

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Not all heroes wear capes… …But some do have impressive costumes, amazing masks and astonishing super-human abilities. This book showcases more than one hundred real-life superheroes, bona fide boffins, awe-inspiring athletes and sublime scientists and celebrates their astounding accomplishments. From the fearless firefighters who tackle blistering blazes to deft doctors that save lives on a daily basis, the world is crammed full of incredible people and the staggering things they've achieved can inspire us all.

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One of the seminal texts in the Buddhist literary canon, "The Dhammapada" presents the timeless wisdom of the Buddha. This edition is introduced and translated by the founder of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order and is annotated for ease of understanding. It can be taken as a straightforward and practical summary of the essential teachings of the Buddha, but - much more than that - the "Dhammapada" is a poetic representation of a sublime spiritual ideal.

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Enlightened Chocolate"" is the first volume in the Enlightened Cooking series. Including both savory and sweet chocolate recipes, it is the first compendium cookbook exclusively devoted to light chocolate recipes. It also offers guidelines for using chocolate and cocoa as multipurpose flavorings to deepen and enhance dishes while adding health benefits. The recipes are divided into five chapters: * Morning Chocolate Fix * Sublime Snacks * Main Dish Chocolate * Decadent Desserts * Sweet & Savory Extras (including sauces, spice rubs, salsas, and other condiments)""

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Featuring a variety of card-sized prints of hard-fighting bluewater game fish, this exquisite card collection reproduces the beauty of these sublime creatures. With six species of fish--the blue marlin, sailfish, swordfish, bluefin tuna, yellowfin tuna, and dolphinfish--this card set makes a perfect gift for passionate inshore and offshore anglers. Each illustration is reproduced from an original painting, finely printed on high-quality paper stock, and presented in a colorful and sturdy keepsake box.

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Visit the inside of the legendary Battersea Power Station in London, a sublime abandoned villa in Tuscany, forgotten thermal baths in Spain, a deserted workers' village from the Italian cotton industry, a dilapidated hospital in New York City, an amusement park shut down in Bali, Antwerp's spectacular stock exchange, rusting helicopters in Belgium ... For 10 years Sylvain Margaine has been traveling the world in search of these forbidden, all but forgotten, places. An exceptional photographic report.

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In this rich exploration of the era of the Grand Tour, contributors from the fields of history, art history, literary history and theory, science history, and anthropology investigate the experiences of travelers and their ways of understanding and representing their encounters with the foreign. From the beginning of the seventeenth century through the early decades of the nineteenth century, the practice of the Grand Tour supplied a crucial point of reference for travel and imaginative geography in general. At the same time, concepts of pleasure and enjoyment became entangled with visual and verbal representations of that which was foreign.With chapters by Ken Arnold, Rosemary Bechler, Richard Hamblyn, Roy Porter, E. S. Shaffer, Nicholas Thomas, Tzvetan Todorov, Richard Wrigley, and the editors, Transports discusses a range of original topics. These include narrative orderings of travel; the classification of exotic objects; pastoral and paradisal topography in the paintings of Claude Lorrain; Beckford's invocations of China as he travels through Italy; volcanoes in the discourses of travel and geology; the experience of Rome; crossing boundaries and exceeding limits in travel and in the sublime; liberty and license in New Zealand; foreigners' responses to the high-velocity culture of London; and Byron's sublime impulse beyond the established bounds of the Grand Tour. Published for the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art

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Textos inéditos descubiertos recientemente en la Biblioteca Nacional de París por un experto en la obra de Emil Cioran y escritos en los años cuarenta. Aforismos, reflexiones descarnadas sobre lo sublime y el abandono que ya perfilan las posteriores obsesiones de este pensador inclasificable: el arte como paliativo ante el dolor de existir, la búsqueda de redención a través de la escritura, la nostalgia de los paraísos perdidos, el elogio y la refutación de los absolutos.

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Bede’s aim in De Templo is stated in Chapter I: ‘That the building of the tabernacle and the temple signifies one and the same Church of Christ’. For anyone with an interest in mysticism or merely desiring spiritual nourishment, the reading of De Templo should prove a sublime experience and its own reward. This classic in Latin by an English saint is here made available in English for the first time since it was written nearly 1300 years ago.

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The Science of Sport series is essential reading for students, coaches and performers, physiotherapists, club doctors and professional support staff working in sport. The Science of Sport: Squash offers both scientific research and athlete testimonials to show that squash is one of the most physically demanding, mentally draining, and tactically challenging sports in the world. Success in this sport requires extreme levels of fitness, optimal and specific strength, relentless psychological toughness, intelligent tactical prowess, and sublime technical proficiency.

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Fervor, inspiración o sublime son términos frecuentemente maltratados por la crítica literaria. Nadie mejor que uno de los mejores poetas de nuestros días, un apologeta del poder de aquella iluminación que distingue a la mejor poesía, para restituir sus virtudes a la cultura contemporánea. En los trece ensayos recogidos en el presente libro, Adam Zagajewski llama a defender la serenidad, la valentía, la pasión crítica, la belleza y la seriedad metafísica de la ironía con elocuencia, erudición y punzante sentido del humor.

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Happiness FM will take you on a joyful journey that explores the complexities and contradictions of 21st century life. Meet uninhibited Russian grandmothers along with creepy fans of Professor Brian Cox and learn how to achieve your bucket list without leaving your sofa. With wry humour, tenderness and a social conscience Mary Dickins invites us to recognise our own lives in her subject matter and themes and to celebrate with her all that is sublime and ridiculous about being human.

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Join fine-art photographer David Skernick as he explores the rambling back roads of Northern California. This timeless tribute to the natural landscape captures the sublime beauty of settings such as Shasta Trinity National Forest, Napa Valley vineyards, Redwoods National Park, Route 1 and the Pacific Coast, and Yosemite. Skernick, who leads photography workshops nationwide, lets us in on his strategies with an appendix listing exposure, equipment, and panorama statistics for each image—enough to satisfy even the most technology-minded photographer.

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Considered a classic at the time of its publication in 1910, A Shepherd's Life is a rare account of the lives of those who lived on and worked the land in nineteenth-century rural Britain. A masterful work of prose, W. H. Hudson focuses on the story of one man, a Wiltshire shepherd named Caleb Bawcombe, whose tales of sheep dogs, farmer's wives, poachers and local fairs become a sublime account of a way of life that has largely disappeared from these shores.

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For award-winning science writer and photographer Margie Patlak, exploring the unique nature of the Maine coast opens a door to deeper ties and insights. This collection of photographs conveys the sublime sense of wonder she feels every time she visits the shore. Tides show how fleeting time is, and clouds and weather reveal greater forces that take away all illusions of control. These facets of the natural world speak a hidden language of light and color that Patlak translates with her lens.

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In Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard fixes her entrancing gaze and powerful sense of wonder on the natural world. Whether watching a sublime lunar eclipse or locking eyes with a wild weasel, Dillard captures the grand and miniature miracles of our universe. Annie Dillard is one of the most respected and influential figures in contemporary non-fiction and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. With Teaching a Stone to Talk, she illuminates the world around us with a new and glowing light.

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