English Prose And Verse

Author : Coe
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788125000310
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practical English Prose And Verse written by Coe and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 1977 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents graded extracts with comprehension, vocabulary and exercises, and poems with notes explaining words, phrases and allusions.

Author : Alastair Fowler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199556296
Total Pages : 831 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse written by Alastair Fowler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alistair Fowler's celebrated anthology includes generous selections from the work of all the century's major poets, notably Donne, Jonson, Milton, Drayton, Herbert, Marvell, and Dryden. It strikes a balance between Metaphysical wit and intellect and Jonsonian simplicity, while also accommodating hitherto neglected popular verse. The result is a truer, more Catholic representation of seventeenth-century verse than any previous anthology.

Author : Eleanor Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022657217X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staging Contemplation written by Eleanor Johnson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to contemplate? In the Middle Ages, more than merely thinking with intensity, it was a religious practice entailing utter receptiveness to the divine presence. Contemplation is widely considered by scholars today to have been the highest form of devotional prayer, a rarified means of experiencing God practiced only by the most devout of monks, nuns, and mystics. Yet, in this groundbreaking new book, Eleanor Johnson argues instead for the pervasiveness and accessibility of contemplative works to medieval audiences. By drawing together ostensibly diverse literary genres—devotional prose, allegorical poetry, cycle dramas, and morality plays—Staging Contemplation paints late Middle English contemplative writing as a broad genre that operated collectively and experientially as much as through radical individual disengagement from the world. Johnson further argues that the contemplative genre played a crucial role in the exploration of the English vernacular as a literary and theological language in the fifteenth century, tracing how these works engaged modes of disfluency—from strained syntax and aberrant grammar, to puns, slang, code-switching, and laughter—to explore the limits, norms, and potential of English as a devotional language. Full of virtuoso close readings, this book demonstrates a sustained interest in how poetic language can foster a participatory experience of likeness to God among lay and devotional audiences alike.

Author : Jack Arthur Walter Bennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Middle English Verse and Prose written by Jack Arthur Walter Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Gross
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192840868
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Comic Verse written by John Gross and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Chaucer to Vikram Seth and Victoria Wood; from Byron to John Updike; from Augustan satire to advertising jingles; from G. K. Chesterton to Wendy Cope - this superb anthology is notable above all for its breadth. It is truly international in scope, bringing together poets from far beyond the British Isles. Drawing on many different types of verse, from epigrams to street ballads, from clerihew to music-hall lyrics, from the double-dactyl of the calypso, it offers an exceptionally widerange of comic pleasures. The poems in this collection are by turns subtle, down-to-earth, macabre, ingenious, acerbic, ribald, and cheerful; written to amuse, they call forth laughter and delight in equal measure. The established classics of comic verse, writers such as Tom Hood, W. S. Gilbert, and Ogden Nash, are represented in force, but many unfamiliar or unexpected names are also included; so are many recent writers - the classics of the future. This collection undoubtedly contains matterof great historical interest, but the emphasis throughout is firmly on enjoyment.

Author : John Gross
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1064 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Oxford Book of English Prose written by John Gross and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique anthology. Drawing on the full range of English prose, wherever it has been written, it illustrates the growth, development, and resources of the language from the legends of Sir Thomas Malory to the novels of Kashuo Ishiguro. In the process it reveals a variety ofachievements which no other language can match. The book represents an enormous diversity of men and women - from John Bunyan to John Updike, from Brendan Behan to Chinua Achebe, from Dorothy Wordsworth to Patrick White. As the centuries progress, American writers increase their presence, and by the twentieth century there are contributions fromIndia, Australia, Canada, Nigeria, the Caribbean and many other parts of the world. The selection is no less remarkable for its breadth in terms of subject-matter and treatment. Fiction is generously represented, but many other kinds of writing have also been drawn on: letters, diaries, and memoirs; history and philosophy; criticism and reportage; sermons and satire; travel-books;reflections on art, science, politics and sport. There are classic and well-loved passages, and also a great deal that is unfamiliar. John Gross has chosen with consummate skill to produce a volume that is both a testimonial to English prose and an endless source of pleasurable browsing.

Author : Kenneth Sisam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose written by Kenneth Sisam and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stewart Brown
Publisher : Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
ISBN 13 : 9780199561599
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse written by Stewart Brown and published by Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caribbean has produced one of the most vigorous and exciting bodies of poetry of the last one hundred year. The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse is the only contemporary anthology to present the best of the English-language poetry of the region alongside selections from the poetry of boththe French and Spanish Caribbean. Featuring a range of established poets from Derek Walcott to Jesus Cos Causse, Olive Senior to Aime Cesaire, as well as exciting new voices, this is a rich and challenging book.

Author : Christopher Ricks
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199556318
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse written by Christopher Ricks and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Ricks's celebrated anthology presents a wonderfully varied collection of Victorian poetry, with 560 poems by 115 authors. The great figures of the period - Tennyson, Browning, Swinburne, and Hopkins - are strongly represented, but light verse and nonsense poetry have not been neglected. With most poems given in their entirety, this is a lively and exciting anthology of Victorian verse selected by an expert in the field.

Author : Henry Spackman Pancoast
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson written by Henry Spackman Pancoast and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: