Poems Containing History: Twentieth-Century American Poetry's Engagement with the Past

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Purim: A Series of Character-Poems in Four Parts and Tableaux, Containing the Complete History from the Book of Ester

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Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass Oxford University Press Inc

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"I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease...observing a spear of summer grass." So begins Leaves of Grass, the first great American poem and indeed, to this day, the greatest and most essentially American poem in all our national literature. The publication of Leaves of Grass in July 1855 was a landmark event in literary history. Ralph Waldo Emerson judged the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." Nothing like the volume had ever appeared before. Everything about it--the unusual jacket and title page, the exuberant preface, the twelve free-flowing, untitled poems embracing every realm of experience--was new. The 1855 edition broke new ground in its relaxed style, which prefigured free verse; in its sexual candor; in its images of racial bonding and democratic togetherness; and in the intensity of its affirmation of the sanctity of the physical world. This Anniversary Edition captures the typeface, design and layout of the original edition supervised by Whitman himself.Today's readers get a sense of the "ur-text" of Leaves of Grass, the first version of this historic volume, before Whitman made many revisions of both format and style. The volume also boasts an afterword by Whitman authority David Reynolds, in which he discusses the 1855 edition in its social and cultural contexts: its background, its reception, and its contributions to literary history. There is also an appendix containing the early responses to the volume, including Emerson's letter, Whitman's three self-reviews, and the twenty other known reviews published in various newspapers and magazines. This special volume will be a must-have keepsake for fans of Whitman and lovers of American poetry.

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On Great Generals. On Historians Harvard University Press

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Cornelius Nepos was born in Cisalpine Gaul but lived in Rome and was a friend of Cicero, Atticus, and Catullus. Most of his writings, which included poems, moral examples from history, a chronological sketch of general history, a geographical work, Lives of Cato the Elder and Cicero, and other biographies, are lost. Extant is a portion of his 'De Viris Illustribus': (i) part of his parallel lives of Roman and non-Roman famous men, namely the portion containing lives of non-Roman generals (all Greeks except three) and a chapter on kings; and (ii) two lives from the class of historians. The lives are short popular biographies of various kinds, written in a usually plain readable style, of value today because of Nepos's use of many good sources.

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Symphonies 8 & 9 Marketing Design

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Antonin Dvořák's last two symphonies, the light, sunny Eighth and the American-themed Ninth, are complemented by two rarely performed tone poems containing some of the composer's most remarkable music. The Vienna Philharmonic has a rich and notable performance history of these ever-popular symphonies.

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Symphonies 8 & 9 marketing design

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Antonin Dvořák's last two symphonies, the light, sunny Eighth and the American-themed Ninth, are complemented by two rarely performed tone poems containing some of the composer's most remarkable music. The Vienna Philharmonic has a rich and notable performance history of these ever-popular symphonies....

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