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  • John Birchensha: Writings on Music

    by Benjamin Wardhaugh, Christopher D.S. Field ...
    Series series Music Theory in Britain, 1500–1700: Critical Editions
    John Birchensha (c.1605-?1681) is chiefly remembered for the impression that his theories about music made on the mathematicians, natural philosophers and virtuosi of the Royal Society in the 1660s and 1670s, and for inventing a system that he claimed would enable even those without practical experience of music to learn to compose in a short time by means of 'a few easy, certain, and perfect ... Read more

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  • The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry

    by T. S. Eliot ...
    The famed series of Trinity College and Johns Hopkins lectures in which the Nobel Prize winner explored history, poetry, and philosophy.While a student at Harvard in the early years of the twentieth century, T. S. Eliot immersed himself in the verse of Dante, Donne, and the nineteenth-century French poet Jules Laforgue. His study of the relation of thought and feeling in these poets led Eliot, as ... Read more

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  • Image and Imagination

    by C. S. Lewis ...
    Image and Imagination presents some of C.S. Lewis's finest literary criticism and religious exposition. This selection gathers together forty book reviews—never before reprinted—as well as four major essays which have been unavailable for many decades, and a fifth essay, “Image and Imagination,” published for the first time. The essays and reviews substantiate Lewis's reputation as an eloquent and ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius

    Edited by Stuart Gillespie, Philip Hardie ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Lucretius' didactic poem De rerum natura ('On the Nature of Things') is an impassioned and visionary presentation of the materialist philosophy of Epicurus, and one of the most powerful poetic texts of antiquity. After its rediscovery in 1417 it became a controversial and seminal work in successive phases of literary history, the history of science, and the Enlightenment. In this 2007 Cambridge ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • A Critical Companion to John Skelton

    by Professor Sebastian I. Sobecki, John A. Burrow, John Scattergood, Julia Boffey, Nadine Kuipers, Thomas Betteridge, Professor A. S. G. Edwards, Carol Meale, David R. Carlson0, Elisabeth Dutton1, Greg Waite2, Helen Cooper3, Jane Griffiths4 ...
    John Skelton is a central literary figure and the leading poet during the first thirty years of Tudor rule. Nevertheless, he remains challenging and even contradictory for modern audiences.This book aims to provide an authoritative guide to this complex poet and his works, setting him in his historical, religious, and social contexts. Beginning with an exploration of his life and career, it goes ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • An Essay on Man

    by Alexander Pope ...
    A definitive new edition of one of the greatest philosophical poems in the English languageVoltaire called it "the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language." Rousseau rhapsodized about its intellectual consolations. Kant recited long passages of it from memory during his lectures. And Adam Smith and David Hume drew inspiration from it in their writings. This was Alexander Pope's ... Read more

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  • The Guitar in Tudor England

    A Social and Musical History

    by Christopher Page ...
    Series series Musical Performance and Reception
    Few now remember that the guitar was popular in England during the age of Queen Elizabeth and Shakespeare, and yet it was played everywhere from the royal court to the common tavern. This groundbreaking book, the first entirely devoted to the renaissance guitar in England, deploys new literary and archival material, together with depictions in contemporary art, to explore the social and musical ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

    by Ellen T. Harris ...
    Purcell's Dido and Aeneas stands as the greatest operatic achievement of seventeenth-century England, and yet, despite its global renown, it remains cloaked in mystery. The date and place of its first performance cannot be fixed with precision, and the absolute accuracy of the surviving scores, which date from almost 100 years after the work was written, cannot be assumed. In this thirtieth ... Read more

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  • Reading Memory in Early Modern Literature

    by Andrew Hiscock ...
    'He who remembers or recollects, thinks' declared Francis Bacon, drawing attention to the absolute centrality of the question of memory in early modern Britain's cultural life. The vigorous debate surrounding the faculty had dated back to Plato at least. However, responding to the powerful influences of an ever-expanding print culture, humanist scholarship, the veneration for the cultural ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Studies in English Language and Literature

    Doubt Wisely

    Edited by M. J. Toswell, E. M. Tyler ...
    This collection of twenty-nine papers is in honour of E. G. Stanley, Rawlinson and Bosworth Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. Written by scholars he has supervised, examined or otherwise served as mentor for within the last twenty years, the contributors illustrate the advantages of following John Donne's axiom to 'doubt ... Read more

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  • The Poems of John Donne, Volume II

    by John Donne ...
    Donne's position among English poets, regarded from the historical and what we like to call scientific point of view, has been defined with learning and discrimination by Mr. Courthope in his History of English Poetry. As a phenomenon of curious interest for the student of the history of thought and literary fashions, there it is. Mr. Courthope is far too well-informed and judicious a critic to ... Read more

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  • William Byrd

    A Research and Information Guide

    by Richard Turbet ...
    This comprehensive research guide surveys the most significant published materials relating to William Byrd. This new edition includes research since the publication of the last edition. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD