 | The Collected Poems of W.S. Merwin
Release Date: April 4, 2013Oracular and elegant, W. S. Merwin’s poetry reveals a heightened sense of what is essential to human consciousness: the fragile framing of nature, the mysteries of memory and perception, the inescapable fact of our mortality. In a career spanning seven decades— from his brilliant emergence as the winner of the Yale Younger Poets’ Prize in 1952 to his recent term as U.S. Poet Laureate—he has fashioned a poetics unmistakably his own, marked by a stripped-down, unpunctuated style that foregrounds his responsiveness, spiritual insights, and faci...
 |  | River of Tears
Publication Date: January 1992| ISBN-10: 0888392761 | ISBN-13: 978-0888392763"River of Tears" enters the heart of the two women in the life of an impassioned man who took part in the massacre at Bute Inlet. ...
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|  | The Recruiting Officer (Regents Restoration Drama)
Publication Date: September 1, 1992| Series: Regents Restoration Drama Since its first appearance in 1706, The Recruiting Officer has remained a scathing satire of military recruitment. George Farquhar knew the subject well, since he had been involved himself in the tricks and intimidation that enlisted recruits for Queen Anne's army in the War of Spanish Succession from 1703-1705.In Farquhar's play, two recruiting officers compete for recruits in the same locale. Recruiting in those years required more than patriotism and the lure of glory: it relied on bribery, alcohol, and the whole armor...
|  | Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad
Publication Date: September 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 0967967570 | ISBN-13: 978-0967967578| Edition: 1 Fifty years of reading Homer — both alone and with students — prepared Eva Brann to bring the Odyssey and the Iliad back to life for today's readers. In Homeric Moments, she brilliantly conveys the unique delights of Homer's epics as she focuses on the crucial scenes, or moments, that mark the high points of the narratives: Penelope and Odysseus, faithful wife and returning husband, sit face to face at their own hearth for the first time in twenty years; young Telemachus, with his...
|  | The Aeneid (Unwin Critical Library)
Publication Date: December 1987| ISBN-10: 0048000426 | ISBN-13: 978-0048000422The 'Aeneid' of Virgil is one of the greatest works of Classical antiquity. This study by the Virgilian scholar R. Deryck Williams, first published in 1987 and long since unavailable, sets the 'Aeneid' in its historical literary background and shows how Virgil related his own world of the newly established Roman Empire to the experience of the past. The poetic qualities of epic are analysed and illustrated by frequent quotations from the Latin, always with prose translations. The book will be appreciated by stu...
|  | Doggerel: Poems About Dogs (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
Release Date: October 21, 2003| Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets From Chaucer to Billy Collins and from basset hounds to brindle bull terriers, Doggerel presents a robust brood of the most charming verse tributes ever offered to our beloved canine companions.The rich and assorted cadences of some of the most distinguished poets across the centuries ring out from these pages–from Spenser, Shakespeare, and Pope to Merrill, Merwin, and Muldoon–celebrating pooches of every pedigree and persuasion. Here is Margaret Cavendish’s barking chorus of beagles on the hunt; Eli...
|  | IN THE LIGHT OF LIKENESS TRANSFORMED: LITERARY ART OF LEON FORREST
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|  | Seurat: Drawings and Paintings
Publication Date: June 1, 2001Georges Seurat, painter of Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte, had a meteoric career that ended in 1891 with his death at age 31. In this generously illustrated book, the leading specialist on Seurat examines the entire range of the artist's work, focusing on individual paintings and drawings and interpreting the personal and social meanings of their subjects. Robert L. Herbert examines closely Seurat's early oil panels of rural and suburban settings, early drawings of Parisians at work and leisure, and later canvases and drawings of cafe-concerts and circu...
|  | Eyes Only: The Top Secret Correspondence Between Eisenhower and Marshall
Publication Date: May 1, 2012The war for Europe through the previously unpublished correspondence of Eisenhower and his Chief of Staff, offering new insight into a key partnership of the U.S. military Between December 1943 and November 1945, General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, United States Army, and General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Forces, communicated through top secret channels, their letters given the highest security rating— "Eyes Only." These documents have remained unpublished, until now. This correspondence w...
|  | Res Gestae Divi Augusti: The Achievements of the Divine Augustus
Publication Date: December 31, 1969| ISBN-10: 0198317727 | ISBN-13: 978-0198317722This text is designed to allow the intermediate/advanced student to read Latin rapidly, without having constantly to consult a dictionary or grammar. It contains: -Introduction-Latin text with same/facing page-Vocabulary notes-Grammatical commentary-Full vocabulary-Historical commentary-Index of place names and persons The Res Gestae reveals as much about Augustus and his accomplishments through what it omits as what it contains. This edition allows students rare access to non-literary historica...
|  | The Dragons Are Singing Tonight
Release Date: August 27, 1998| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up An "excellent collection....Prelutsky and Sis...bring to life so many sorts of dragons: the large, the small, the ferocious, the technological, the gentle, the ominous, and the disconsolate. There's a `just right' quality to the verse that makes it a pleasure to read the words aloud. Their sounds fit together with seamless craftsmanship and their sense rewards listeners with humor, imagination, and occasional poignancy....Because it appeals on so many levels, this is one poetry book that won't siton the shelf for long...
|  | The Amazing Spider-Man Storybook Collection (Disney Storybook Collections)
Release Date: June 5, 2012| Age Level: 3 and up...
|  | The History of Football (Sports Throughout History)
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|  | Dragsters (Amazing Vehicles Set 2)
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|  | Amazing Athlete: Ice Skating Dreams (Look-Look)
Release Date: June 1, 2000| Age Level: 3 and up...
|  | Elmo's World: Animals! (Sesame Street) (Sesame Street(R) Elmos World(TM))
Release Date: June 26, 2001| Age Level: 1 and up...
|  | Battle of Britain: Cinebook Recounts
Publication Date: June 16, 2010| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Sarah Pick Up the Dime
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|  | Franklin's Blanket (Franklin (Scholastic Paperback))
Publication Date: January 1996| Age Level: 4 and up...
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