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Author: Richard Robbins
Publisher: Eastern Washington University
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Pages : 78
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
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Famous Persons We Have Known

by Richard Robbins, Famous Persons We Have Known Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Famous Persons We Have Known books, A collection of poems by Richard Robbins.

Author: Robert Bernard Martin
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571279732
Format: PDF, ePub
Pages : 480
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
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Gerard Manley Hopkins

by Robert Bernard Martin, Gerard Manley Hopkins Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Gerard Manley Hopkins books, 'Will surely rank as one of the foremost literary biographies of our time.' John Carey, Sunday Times In his lifetime Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) published just a single poem - only a few close friends were aware he wrote. Much of his work was burnt by fellow Jesuits on his death. And yet Hopkins is today a huge figure in English literature. Homosexual but terribly repressed, he channeled his emotions toward nature and God, with profound results. Princeton emeritus professor Martin, the only biographer to have unrestricted use of Hopkins' private papers, tells this extraordinary story from Hopkins' early life and studies at Oxford, through his tortuous conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism, to his struggle in later years to retain his very sanity. 'In Martin, the unhappy and tormented genius has found the most sympathetic and intelligent interpreter... [The book] goes to the heart of Hopkins, and plants him firmly before us as a Victorian, and a great one.' Allan Massie, Sunday Telegraph 'Martin follows Hopkins through his toils with sympathy and a great unshowy command of the facts. In this magnificently solicitous biography he has re-established the contours of the story definitively and made the homosexual drama integral to the better-known drama of conversion and poetics.' Seamus Heaney, Independent on Sunday 'The triumph of this learned, scrupulously detailed and persuasive biography is that it brings the reader as near as it is perhaps possible to come to living Hopkins' life, to sensing the mysterious crushing pressures that were for him intimately bound up with the richness and complexity of his writing.' Hilary Spurling, Daily Telegraph

Author: Mary Watson
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Pages : 91
Category : Women journalists
Languages : en
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People I Have Met

by Mary Watson, People I Have Met Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download People I Have Met books, Brief sketches of writers, artists, and others.

Author: Patrick Moser
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824863836
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Pages : 312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
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Pacific Passages

by Patrick Moser, Pacific Passages Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Pacific Passages books, A thousand years after Hawaiians first paddled long wooden boards into the ocean, modern surfers have continued this practice, which has recently been transformed into a global industry. Pacific Passages brings together four centuries of writing about surfing, the most comprehensive collection of Polynesian and Western perspectives on the history and culture of a sport currently enjoyed by millions of people around the world. The stories begin with Hawaiian legends and chants and are followed by the journals of explorers; the travel narratives of missionaries and luminaries such as Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Jack London; and the contemporary observations of Tom Wolfe, William Finnegan, Susan Orlean, and Bob Shacochis. Readers follow the historical transformation of surfing’s image through the centuries: from Polynesian myths of love to Western accounts of horror and exoticism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to modern representations of surfing as a character-building activity in pre-World-War II California and the quintessential expression of disaffected youth. They explore the sport’s most recent trends by writers and cultural critics, whose insights into technology, competition, gender, heritage, and globalism reveal how surfing impacts some of today’s most pressing social concerns. Aided by informative introductions, the writings in Pacific Passages provide insight into the values and ideals of Polynesian and Western cultures, revealing how each has altered and been altered by surfing—and how the sport itself has shown an amazing ability throughout the centuries to survive, adapt, and prosper.

Author: Robert Hedin
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873515849
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Pages : 261
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
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Where One Voice Ends Another Begins

by Robert Hedin, Where One Voice Ends Another Begins Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Where One Voice Ends Another Begins books, The first single-volume, comprehensive survey of the best Minnesota poetry, Where One VOice Ends Another Begins showcases the work of seventy-six of the state's premiere poets.

Author: Europa Publications
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135355193
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Pages : 400
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
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International Who S Who In Poetry 2005

by Europa Publications, International Who S Who In Poetry 2005 Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download International Who S Who In Poetry 2005 books, The 13th edition of the International Who's Who in Poetry is a unique and comprehensive guide to the leading lights and freshest talent in poetry today. Containing biographies of more than 4,000 contemporary poets world-wide, this essential reference work provides truly international coverage. In addition to the well known poets, talented up-and-coming writers are also profiled. Contents: * Each entry provides full career history and publication details * An international appendices section lists prizes and past prize-winners, organizations, magazines and publishers * A summary of poetic forms and rhyme schemes * The career profile section is supplemented by lists of Poets Laureate, Oxford University professors of poetry, poet winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, winners of the Pulitzer Prize for American Poetry and of the King's/Queen's Gold medal and other poetry prizes.

Author: Nathaniel Parker Willis
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Pages : 492
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
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Famous Persons And Places

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A View From The Loft

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Publisher: Bunny Ultramod
ISBN: 1458086178
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Category : Music
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The Bold And The Terrible How To Become A Superstar With Just An Ipad 60 And Two Weeks

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Author: Lord William Pitt Lennox
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Celebrities I Have Known

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