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Author : Rosemary Sutcliff
Publisher : Canelo
ISBN 13 : 1800327021
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flowers of Adonis written by Rosemary Sutcliff and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “highly satisfactory” historical novel portrays Alcibiades as “magnetic, brilliant, often ruthless, restless, unable to accept a simple destiny” (Kirkus Reviews). From the internationally acclaimed author of The Eagle of the Ninth . . . The epic story of Greece’s most controversial hero. In the fifth century BC, against the background of perpetually warring Greek city-states, one man towered above the chaos. His name was Alkibiades. Friend of Socrates, sailor, warrior and incorrigible lover, he fled persecution in his native Athens to join her enemy: Sparta. However, his brilliant naval and diplomatic victories could not save him from the consequences of impregnating the Spartan queen, and once more he was forced to flee. Alkibiades settled into life as a roving soldier of fortune, though his love for Athens proved to be the overriding influence of his later life. When that glorious city eventually fell to the Spartans, his own violent demise was shortly to follow . . . “A fascinating character study told with skill and erudition.” —The Daily Telegraph “A gripping story of battle, intrigue and ruin.” —Evening Standard

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Othello. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Pericles. Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Phoenix and turtle. Indicial glossary written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 996 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopaedia Londinensis, Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Miriam Jacobson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812290070
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barbarous Antiquity written by Miriam Jacobson and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late sixteenth century, English merchants and diplomats ventured into the eastern Mediterranean to trade directly with the Turks, the keepers of an important emerging empire in the Western Hemisphere, and these initial exchanges had a profound effect on English literature. While the theater investigated representations of religious and ethnic identity in its portrayals of Turks and Muslims, poetry, Miriam Jacobson argues, explored East-West exchanges primarily through language and the material text. Just as English markets were flooded with exotic goods, so was the English language awash in freshly imported words describing items such as sugar, jewels, plants, spices, paints, and dyes, as well as technological advancements such as the use of Arabic numerals in arithmetic and the concept of zero. Even as these Eastern words and imports found their way into English poetry, poets wrestled with paying homage to classical authors and styles. In Barbarous Antiquity, Jacobson reveals how poems adapted from Latin or Greek sources and set in the ancient classical world were now reoriented to reflect a contemporary, mercantile Ottoman landscape. As Renaissance English writers including Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, and Chapman weighed their reliance on classical poetic models against contemporary cultural exchanges, a new form of poetry developed, positioned at the crossroads of East and West, ancient and modern. Building each chapter around the intersection of an Eastern import and a classical model, Jacobson shows how Renaissance English poetry not only reconstructed the classical past but offered a critique of that very enterprise with a new set of words and metaphors imported from the East.

Author : John Wilkes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopaedia Londinensis written by John Wilkes and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip Miller
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 804 pages
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Download or read book The Gardeners Dictionary written by Philip Miller and published by . This book was released on 1768 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Forbes Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flowers and Gardens written by Forbes Watson and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A Medical Man
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382813076
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flowers and Gardens written by A Medical Man and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Forbes Watson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
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Download or read book Flowers and gardens: notes on plant beauty. By a medical man (F. Watson). written by Forbes Watson and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wendy Beth Hyman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019257440X
Total Pages : 240 pages
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Download or read book Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry written by Wendy Beth Hyman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry examines the limits of embodiment, knowledge, and representation at a disregarded nexus: the erotic carpe diem poem in early modern England. These macabre seductions offer no compliments or promises, but instead focus on the lovers' anticipated decline, and—quite stunningly given the Reformation context—humanity's relegation not to a Christian afterlife but to a Marvellian 'desert of vast Eternity.' In this way, a poetic trope whose classical form was an expression of pragmatic Epicureanism became, during the religious upheaval of the Reformation, an unlikely but effective vehicle for articulating religious doubt. Its ambitions were thus largely philosophical, and came to incorporate investigations into the nature of matter, time, and poetic representation. Renaissance seduction poets invited their auditors to participate in a dangerous intellectual game, one whose primary interest was expanding the limits of knowledge. The book theorizes how Renaissance lyric's own fragile relationship to materiality and time, and its self-conscious relationship to making, positioned it to grapple with these 'impossible' metaphysical and representational problems. Although attentive to poetics, the book also challenges the commonplace view that the erotic invitation is exclusively a lyrical mode. Carpe diem's revival in post-Reformation Europe portends its radicalization, as debates between man and maid are dramatized in disputes between abstractions like chastity and material facts like death. Offered here is thus a theoretical reconsideration of the generic parameters and aspirations of the carpe diem trope, wherein questions about embodiment and knowledge are also investigations into the potentialities of literary form.