• Introduction I. The task of literary history II. Sources and earlier accounts of the literary history of the Arabs III. Division of the history of Arabic literature First Book. The national literature of the Arabs First Section. From the beginnings until the appearance of Muhammad
• Chapter 1. The Arabic language
• Chapter 2. The beginnings of poetry
• Chapter 3. Forms of Arabic poetry
• Chapter 4. General characteristics of ancient Arabic poetry
• Chapter 5. The transmission of Arabic poetry
• Chapter 6. The sources for our knowledge of ancient Arabic poetry
• Chapter 7. The six poets
• Chapter 8. Other poets of pre-Islamic times
• Chapter 9. Jewish and Christian poets before Islam
• Chapter 10. The beginnings of Arabic prose Second Section. Muhammad and his time
• Chapter 1. Muhammad the Prophet
• Chapter 2. The Qur'an
• Chapter 3. Labid and al-A'sha
• Chapter 4. Hassan b. Thabit
• Chapter 5. Ka'b b. Zuhayr
• Chapter 6. Mutammin b. Nuwayra
• Chapter 7. Al-Khansa'
• Chapter 8. Abu Mihjan and al-Hutay'a
• Chapter 9. Minor poets
• Chapter 10. Two forgeries Third Section. The period of the Umayyads
• Chapter 1. General characteristics
• Chapter 2. 'Umar b. Abi Rabi'a
• Chapter 3. Other poets in Arabia
• Chapter 4. Al-Akhtal
• Chapter 5. Al-Farazdaq
• Chapter 6. Jarir
• Chapter 7. Dhu l-Rumma
• Chapter 8. The rajaz poets
• Chapter 9. Minor poets
• Chapter 10. Prose writing at the time of the Umayyads Second Book. Islamic literature in the Arabic language First section. The Classical period from ca. 750 until ca. 1000
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Poetry A. The poets of Baghdad B. Poets of Iraq and the Jazira C. Poets from Arabia and Syria D. The circle of Sayf al-Dawla E. Egyptian and North African poets
• Chapter 3. Rhymed prose
• Chapter 4. Philology I. The School of Basra II. The School of Kufa III. The School of Baghdad IV. Linguistics in Persia and the East V. Linguistics in Egypt and Spain
• Chapter 4. Historiography 1. The life of Muhammad 2. Urban history 3. The history of the pre-Islamic Arabs 4. Imperial and world history 5. Cultural and literary history 6. The history of Egypt and North Africa 7. The history of Spain
• Chapter 5. Belles lettres in prose
• Chapter 6. Hadith
• Chapter 7. Fiqh 1. The Hanafis 2. The Malikis 3. The Shafi'is 4. The lesser schools 5. The Shi'a 1. The Zaydis 2. The Imamis
• Chapter 8. Sciences of the Qur'an 1. The reading of the Qur'an 2. Qur'anic exegesis
• Chapter 9. Dogmatics
• Chapter 10. Mysticism
• Chapter 11. The translators
• Chapter 12. Philosophy
• Chapter 13. Mathematics
• Chapter 14. Astronomy and astrology
• Chapter 15. Geography
• Chapter 16. Medicine
• Chapter 17. Natural and occult sciences
• Chapter 18. Encyclopaedias Second Section. The post-Classical period of Islamic literature from ca. 400/1000 until ca. 656/1258
• Chapter 1. Poetry A. Poets of Baghdad, Iraq, and the Jazira B. Persian poets C. Syrian poets D. Arabian poets E. Egyptian poets F. North African and Sicilian poets G. Spanish poets
• Chapter 2. Rhymed prose and stylistics
• Chapter 3. Philology 1. Philology in Iraq 2. Philology in Persia and neighbouring countries 3. Philology in Syria 4. Philology in South Arabia 5. Philology in Egypt 6. Philology in North Africa and Sicily 7. Philology in Spain
• Chapter 4. Historiography 1. Individual biographies 2. Histories of dynasties 3. Histories of individuals and genealogies 4. Local history A. Baghdad B. Damascus C. Jerusalem D. Aleppo E. Dunaysir F. South Arabia G. Jurjan H. Egypt I. The Maghrib J. Spain 5. Histories of the caliphs and world history 6. Histories of prophets
• Chapter 5. Belles lettres in prose
• Chapter 6. Hadith 1. Iraq, the Jazira, Syria, and Arabia 2. Persia 3. Egypt and North Africa 4. Spain
• Chapter 7. Fiqh 1. The Hanafis 2. The Malikis 3. The Shafi'is 4. The Hanbalis 5. The Zahiris and Almohads 6. The Shi'a A. The Zaydis B. The Imamis
• Chapter 8. The sciences of the Qur'an 1. The art of reading the Qur'an 2. Qur'anic exegesis
• Chapter 9. Dogmatics
• Chapter 10. Mysticism
• Chapter 11. Philosophy and politics
• Chapter 12. Mathematics
• Chapter 13. Astronomy
• Chapter 14. Geography and travelogues
• Chapter 15. Medicine
• Chapter 16. A. Natural sciences and technology B. Games, sports, and war C. Music
• Chapter 17. Occult sciences
• Chapter 18. Encyclopaedias and polyhistors.
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• Preface Note to the Reader Transcription Third Book: The Decline of Islamic Literature First Section From Mongol Rule Until the Conquest of Egypt by Sultan Selim I in the Year 1517 Introduction
• Chapter 1. Egypt and Syria
• Chapter 2. Iraq and al-Jazira
• Chapter 3. North Arabia
• Chapter 4. South Arabia
• Chapter 5. Iran and Turan
• Chapter 6. India
• Chapter 7. The Turks of Rum and the Ottomans
• Chapter 8. North Africa
• Chapter 9. Spain Second Section From the Conquest of Egypt by Sultan Selim I in 1517 to the Napoleonic Expedition to Egypt in 1798
• Chapter 1. Egypt and Syria
• Chapter 2. Al-Jazira, Iraq, and Bahrain
• Chapter 3. North Arabia
• Chapter 4. South Arabia
• Chapter 5. Oman, East Africa, and Abyssinia
• Chapter 6. Iran and Turan
• Chapter 7. India
• Chapter 8. The Malay Archipelago
• Chapter 9. Rumelia and Anatolia
• Chapter 10. The Maghreb
• Chapter 11. The Sudan Third Section From the Napoleonic Expedition to Egypt Until the British Occupation
• Chapter 1. Egypt
• Chapter 2. Syria
• Chapter 3. Mesopotamia and Iraq
• Chapter 4. North Arabia
• Chapter 5. South Arabia
• Chapter 6. Oman
• Chapter 7. Persia
• Chapter 8. Afghanistan
• Chapter 9. India
• Chapter 10. Ceylon, Farther India, and the Malay Archipelago
• Chapter 11. Istanbul
• Chapter 12. Russia
• Chapter 13. The Maghreb
• Chapter 14. The Sudan Appendix. A Selective Listing of Authors of Unknown Place and Date, in Alphabetical Order 1 Poetry 2 Rhymed Prose and Popular Literature 3 Philology 4 Historiography 5 Hadith 6 Fiqh 7 Sciences of the Qur'an 8 Dogmatics and Polemics 9 Mysticism and Edifying Works 10 Philosophy and Politics 11 Mathematics and Astronomy 12 Geography and Cosmography 13 Medicine 14 Eroticism 15 Natural Sciences and Technology 16 Alchemy 17 Music 18 Sports 19 Occult Sciences 20 Encyclopaedias.
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• Preface Note to the Reader Transcription Introduction I The Task of Literary History II Sources and Earlier Accounts of the Literary History of the Arabs III Division of the History of Arabic Literature First Book: The National Literature of the Arabs First Section From the Beginnings until the Appearance of Muhammad
• Chapter 1. The Arabic Language
• Chapter 2. The Beginnings of Poetry
• Chapter 3. The Forms of Arabic Poetry
• Chapter 4. The Nature of Ancient Arabic Poetry
• Chapter 5. The Transmission of Arabic Poetry
• Chapter 6. Sources for our Knowledge of Ancient Arabic Poetry
• Chapter 7. The Six Poets
• Chapter 8. Other Poets of Pre-Islamic Times
• Chapter 9. Jewish and Christian Poets before Islam
• Chapter 10. The Beginnings of Arabic Prose Second Section Muhammad and His Time
• Chapter 1. Muhammad the Prophet
• Chapter 2. The Qur'an
• Chapter 3. Labid and al-A'sha
• Chapter 4. Hassan b. Thabit
• Chapter 5. Ka'b b. Zuhayr
• Chapter 6. Mutammim b. Nuwayra
• Chapter 7. Al-Khansa'
• Chapter 8. Abu Mihjan and al-Khutay'a
• Chapter 9. Minor Poets
• Chapter 10. Pseudo-'Alid Literature Third Section The Period of the Umayyads
• Chapter 2. 'Umar b. Abi Rabi'a
• Chapter 3. Other Poets in Arabia
• Chapter 4. Al-Akhtal
• Chapter 5. Al-Farazdaq
• Chapter 6. Jarir
• Chapter 7. Dhu l-Rumma
• Chapter 9. Minor Poets
• Chapter 10. Prose Writing at the Time of the Umayyads Second Book: Islamic Literature in the Arabic Language First Section The Classical Period from ca. 750 until ca. 1000
• Chapter 2. Poetry Chapter 2a. Rhymed Prose
• Chapter 3. Philology
• Chapter 4. Historiography
• Chapter 5. Popular Literature in Prose and Works for General Education
• Chapter 6. Hadith
• Chapter 7. Fiqh
• Chapter 8. Qur'anic Sciences
• Chapter 9. Dogmatics
• Chapter 10. Mysticism
• Chapter 12. Philosophy
• Chapter 13. Mathematics
• Chapter 14. Astronomy and Astrology
• Chapter 15. Geography
• Chapter 16. Medicine
• Chapter 17. Natural and Occult Sciences, Varia
• Chapter 18. Encyclopaedias Second Section The post-Classical Period of Islamic Literature, from ca. 400/1000 until ca. 656/1258 Introduction
• Chapter 1. Poetry
• Chapter 2. Rhymed Prose and Stylistics
• Chapter 3. Philology
• Chapter 4. Historiography
• Chapter 5. Belles lettres in Prose
• Chapter 6. Hadith
• Chapter 7. Fiqh
• Chapter 8. Qur'anic sciences
• Chapter 9. Dogmatics
• Chapter 10 Mysticism
• Chapter 11. Philosophy and Politics
• Chapter 12. Mathematics
• Chapter 13. Astronomy
• Chapter 14. Travelogues and Geographies
• Chapter 15. Medicine
• Chapter 16. Natural Sciences and Technology
• Chapter 16. Appendix
• Chapter 17. Occult Sciences
• Chapter 18. Encyclopedias and Polyhistors Addenda & Corrigenda.
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The present English translation reproduces the original German of Carl Brockelmann's Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL) as accurately as possible. In the interest of user-friendliness the following emendations have been made in the translation: Personal names are written out in full, except b. for ibn; Brockelmann's transliteration of Arabic has been adapted to comply with modern standards for English-language publications; modern English equivalents are given for place names, e.g. Damascus, Cairo, Jerusalem, etc.; several erroneous dates have been corrected, and the page references to the two German editions have been retained in the margin, except in the Supplement volumes, where new references to the first two English volumes have been inserted.
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The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is also available online and as a two-volume boxed set. The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is the English translation of Franco Montanari's Vocabolario della Lingua Greca. With an established reputation as the most important modern dictionary for Ancient Greek, it brings together 140,000 headwords taken from the literature, papyri, inscriptions and other sources of the archaic period up to the 6th Century CE, and occasionally beyond.The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is an invaluable companion for the study of Classics and Ancient Greek, for beginning students and advanced scholars alike. Translated and edited under the auspices of The Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC, The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is based on the completely revised 3rd Italian edition published in 2013 by Loescher Editore, Torino. Features * The principal parts of some 15,000 verbs are listed directly following the entry and its etymology. For each of these forms, the occurrence in the ancient texts has been certified. When found only once, the location is cited. * Nearly all entries include citations from the texts with careful mention of the source. * The dictionary is especially rich in personal names re-checked against the sources for the 3rd Italian edition, and in scientific terms, which have been categorized according to discipline. * Each entry has a clear structure and typography making it easy to navigate. "For a number of years now, scholars at ease in Italian have benefitted enormously from the riches, layout, concision, and accuracy of Professor Montanari's Vocabolario della Lingua Greca, with its added advantage of the inclusion of names. Hence classicists in general will welcome the English version of this very valuable resource." Professor Richard Janko, University of Michigan "Franco Montanari is a giant in our field, and his Dictionary is a major leap forward for us..." Professor Gregory Nagy, Harvard University.
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Endorsed by academics worldwide, the Oxford Arabic Dictionary is the most authoritative English-Arabic / Arabic-English dictionary ever published. Based on real modern evidence and computational analysis of hundreds of millions of words of both English and Modern Standard Arabic (the standardized variety of Arabic used in writing and in most formal speech), the dictionary boasts more than 130,000 words and phrases and 200,000 translations. This up-to-date resource has been designed for both Arabic and English native speakers and includes the latest vocabulary from computing, business, the media, and the arts, across both languages. The organization and layout have been designed for maximum clarity and ease of use. The most commonly used sense of each word is shown first, helping you to identify and understand the correct meaning, and more than 70,000 real-life example phrases help you interpret meaning and usage accurately. All Arabic text is shown with vowels to aid the learner of Arabic in pronunciation and comprehension and the Arabic-English section of the dictionary is usefully organised by root, which are listed alphabetically. The dictionary is also packed with extra features including tables of Arabic verbs, Arabic numbers, dates, and years, and irregular English verbs. Produced using the unique dictionary resources of Oxford University Press with an international team of expert advisors, the Oxford Arabic Dictionary is a ground-breaking work, essential for any serious student of Arabic and English, as well as academics, professionals, business people, teachers, and translators.
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• Volume 1. 1760-1779.
• Volume 2. 1780-1782
• Volume 3. 1782-1784
• Volume 4. 1785-1788
• Volume 5. 1788-1794
• Volume 6. 1794-1798
• Volume 7. 1799-1829.

The publication of this volume has been supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Few leaders of the new American nation had more influence than John Jay (1745-1829), or could match his contributions in all three branches of government, at both state and national levels. A leading representative of New York in the Continental Congress, Jay became one of the American commissioners who negotiated peace with Great Britain. He served the new republic as secretary for foreign affairs under the Articles of Confederation, as a contributor to the Federalist papers, as the first chief justice of the United States, as negotiator of the 1794 'Jay Treaty' with Great Britain, and as a two-term governor of the state of New York. In his personal life, Jay embraced a wide range of religious, social, and cultural concerns, including the abolition of slavery. This volume launches a new annotated seven-volume edition of selected correspondence of John Jay. The work consists of a wide-ranging selection of the most significant and interesting public and private documents and letters, written or received by Jay. The edition is designed to revise and complete work begun in the 1950s by the eminent Columbia University professor Richard B. Morris, who supplemented the major collection of original Jay Papers at Columbia with copies of Jay documents secured from archives throughout the world, and with his staff published two volumes covering the era of the American Revolution. The new project is administered by the Rare Books and Manuscript Room of Columbia University Libraries. The Selected Papers of John Jay, 1760-1779 begins with Jay's education and training as a socially elite, Anglican, King's College - educated lawyer. Although such a path led many into Loyalism, it brought Jay, and such friends and correspondents as Robert R. Livingston, Gouverneur Morris, and Alexander Hamilton, into the front ranks of New York's moderate revolutionary leaders. Jay's marriage to Sarah (Sally) Van Brugh Livingston in 1774 tied him to the influential Patriot family headed by William Livingston. Jay soon found himself a leader of New York's revolutionary committees and a delegate to the Continental Congress, where he sought reconciliation with Great Britain but promoted war preparedness, and applied his much-admired writing skills to drafting major congressional reports and addresses. With his state facing invasion, he returned to New York to help organize the new state government and to combat 'plots, conspiracies, and chimeras dire' as a member of committees dealing with loyalty and security issues, including the notorious Hickey Plot. He then helped to organize Hudson River defense and to draft the state constitution of 1777. In 1778 Jay returned to Congress, where he supported New York's claims to Vermont and served as president until he was appointed minister to Spain in September 1779. The volume closes with John and Sally Jay's eventful voyage to Europe, including a brief layover at Martinique after their ship was dismasted and rendered virtually rudderless.
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The second volume of "The Selected Papers of John Jay" opens in January 1780 with Jay's arrival in Spain on his first diplomatic mission abroad. It ends in June 1782 with his departure for France to join Benjamin Franklin in negotiating a peace treaty with Great Britain. Jay's mission in Spain was to seek recognition of American independence, a treaty of alliance, and financial aid, despite Spain's refusal to receive any American diplomat as representative of an independent nation. His personal letters supplement the public correspondence with American, Spanish, and French officials and financiers. The documents provide a case study of the perils of negotiating from a position of political, military, and, especially, financial weakness, and delineate the conflicts that plagued Spanish-American relations for decades. They also demonstrate the additional strains on Jay's household caused by social isolation, insufficient funds, separation from their often endangered families, and routine detention and inspection of their mail. Jay's Spanish experience set the stage for his independent stance during the peace negotiations and magnified his determination to create a stronger, more unified nation that would be treated with respect abroad. Access to people, places, and events in the volume is facilitated by detailed annotation, illustrations, a biographical directory, and a comprehensive index. The publication of this volume has been supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
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This volume opens in June 1782 with the arrival of John Jay in Paris to join Benjamin Franklin in negotiation of the peace treaty with Great Britain. Exploring Jay's controversial insistence on British recognition of American independence prior to the opening of negotiations and his disregard of congressional instructions to take no action without the knowledge and consent of France, it examines his unsuccessful negotiations with Spain and the failure to obtain a commercial treaty with Great Britain. It also documents the social and domestic life of the Jays in France and Jay's visit to England to improve his health and settle a family inheritance. The volume closes with Jay's homecoming to America, his public acclaim in New York, and his acceptance of the post of secretary for foreign affairs. Access to people, places, and events in the volume is facilitated by detailed annotation, illustrations, a biographical directory, and a comprehensive index. The publication of this volume has been supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
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• Search and navigate across data covering the following topics: 1. Population: Population Characteristics
• Vital Statistics
• Internal Migration
• International Migration
• Family and Household Composition
• Cohorts
• American Indians 2. Work and Welfare: Labor
• Slavery
• Education
• Health
• Economic Inequality and Poverty
• Social Insurance and Public Assistance
• Nonprofit, Voluntary, and Religious Entities 3. Economic Structure and Performance: National Income and Product
• Business Fluctuations and Cycles
• Prices
• Consume Expenditures
• Saving, Capital, and Wealth
• Geography and the Environment
• Science, Technology, and Productivity
• Business Organization
• Financial Markets and Institutions 4. Economic Sectors: Agriculture, Natural Resource Industries
• Construction, Housing, and Mortgages
• Manufacturing
• Distribution
• Transportation
• Communications
• Services and Utilities 5. Governance and International Relations: Government Finance and Employment
• Elections and Politics
• Crime, Law Enforcement, and Justice
• National Defense, Wars, Armed Forces, and Veterans
• International Trade and Exchange Rates
• Outlying Areas
• Colonial Statistics
• Confederate States of America.
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Long the standard source for quantitative indicators of American history, a new edition of Historical Statistics of the United States is something that reference librarians, historians, and social scientists have long awaited. Not since the Bicentennial Edition was published in 1975 has new data and material been available. Available online for the first time, this comprehensive and thoroughly revised edition reflects thirty years of information and new scholarship, providing a comprehensive compendium of statistics from over 1,000 sources, recording every aspect of the history of the United States. The electronic edition has been designed to give users a variety of means to search and navigate the vast amount of data available. Users will be able to graph individual tables or to combine data from different tables into 'custom tables' and to download tables for use in spreadsheets and other applications. Visit www.cambridge.org/historicalstats for further information and to discover more.
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• v. 1. Methodologies, paradigms and sources
• v. 2. Family, law and politics
• v. 3. Family, body, sexuality and health
• v. 4. Economics, education, mobility and space
• v. 5. Practices, interpretations and representations
• v. 6. Supplement & Index.

A unique collaboration of over 900 scholars from around the world, the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures crosses history, geographic borders and disciplines to create a ground-breaking reference work reflecting the very latest research on gender studies and the Islamic world. No other reference work offers this scale of contributions or depth and breadth of coverage. Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures is set to become an essential reference work for students and researchers in the fields of gender studies, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, as well as scholars of religion, history, politics, anthropology, geography and related disciplines. The Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures is also available online. For more information see Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures Online.
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A repository of all available English-language Eurostat publications in PDF format, including the issues of Panorama of the EU, Pocketbooks, Detailed tables, Statistics in focus, and other Eurostat document series. Publications cover all statistical themes. Includes more than 1700 publications as of Dec. 2005.

• v. 1. A-I
• v. 2. J-O
• v. 3. P-Z
• v. 4. Supplement 1
• v. 5. Supplement 2.

An index to library and information science literature.

Contains over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics in: production, trade, food-balance sheets, food aid shipments, fertilizer and pesticides, land use and irrigation, forest and fishery products, agricultural machinery, and population among others.

• v. 1. 1843-1873
• v. 2. 1874-1881
• v. 3. 1882-1886
• v. 4. 1887-1894.

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) has come to be considered one of the major poets - not just one of the major women poets - of the Victorian era, eclipsing her famous brother. Leading critics have demonstrated how studies of Rossetti's work, her daily life, her relationships with the Pre-Raphaelites, and her interactions with other women authors of the period can help us understand the unique cultural situation of Victorian women writers. The Letters of Christina Rossetti, four volumes, makes available all of Rossetti's extant letters, almost two-thirds of which have never before been published. These letters come from over one hundred private and institutional collections, scattered from Scotland to Australia. The fourth and final volume of the Letters covers the last eight years of Christina Rossetti's life. In 1887 Rossetti, at the age of fifty-six, was living with her two aged, ailing aunts. In addition to managing the household and nursing her aunts, she published an enlarged edition of her collected poems and, in 1892, wrote her greatest book of devotional prose, The Face of the Deep. She also oversaw the production of a new and enlarged edition of Sing-Song, published in 1893. As a stay-at-home semi-invalid, she maintained a very large correspondence with friends and family members. Her most intimate relationship was with her sole remaining sibling, William Michael Rossetti, but other correspondents include Amelia Bernard Heimann, Caroline Gemmer, Frederic Shields, Rose Donne Hake, Olivia Garnett, Ellen Proctor, Lisa Wilson, Arthur Symons, and Mackenzie Bell, who became her first biographer. In these letters we discover Rossetti's views on subjects as diverse as the artistry of her poems, her health, aging, death, gender roles, money, cats, flowers, games, and her own supposed sinfulness. In May of 1892 Christina Rossetti was diagnosed with breast cancer. The cancer was removed, but she suffered a recurrence in September 1894 and died on December 29th of that year.
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This first volume of letters reveals intimate details about the Rossetti's family life, their illnesses and their accomplishments. It covers a period of 30 years, and over 300 of the letters are to friends and acquaintances, and Christina Rossetti's brothers, William Michael and Dante Gabriel.
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As we have reached the centenary of Christina Rosetti's death, she has become considered as one of the major poets of the Victorian era. Leading critics have demonstrated how studies of Rossetti's work, her daily life, her relationship with the Pre-Raphaelites, and her interactions with other women authors of the period can help the people understand the cultural situation of Victorian women writers. When complete in four volumes, this project will make available all of Rossetti's extant letters. The letters in this second volume "expose a woman of powerful intellect, complex emotions, unshakeable convictions and loving heart". Rossetti, 43 years old in 1874, is now an established poet with a strong literary reputation among her contemporaries. But, as Harrison points out in his introduction to the volume, "two thirds of her life was over, and its losses were mounting". The marriage of William Michael, the death of her sister, Maria, Dante Gabriel's addiction to chloral and the illness that led to his death in 1882, and the deaths of close personal and family friends overshadow these years. Her own affliction with Graves' disease contributed to her becoming reclusive and a semi-invalid. She nonetheless continued to work and publish.
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In recent years Christina Rossetti's star has soared. Rossetti (1830-1894) has come to be considered one of the major poets - not just one of the major women poets - of the Victorian era, eclipsing her famous brother. Leading critics have demonstrated how studies of Rossetti's work, her daily life, her relationships with the Pre-Raphaelites, and her interactions with other women authors of the period can help us understand the unique cultural situation of Victorian women writers. When complete in four volumes, this project will make available all of Rossetti's extant letters, almost two-thirds of which have never been published. The third volume of the "Letters" covers years in which Christina Rossetti lost several important family members, including her mother, her brother Dante, and a young nephew, Michael, and many close friends. Her preoccupation with their illnesses and with memorializing her brother took its toll on her poetic output. In the face of her loss, she turned increasingly to religion and wrote works of devotional prose - "Time Flies", "Letter and Spirit" - not designed to attract much literary attention. Rossetti herself had been diagnozed with Graves' disease in 1872; by 1874 she had recovered but continued to use her earlier health problems to identify herself as a "semi-recluse", which allowed her a degree of freedom she might not have had otherwise. This self-imposed reclusiveness gave rise to a large correspondence, in which her interest and sensibilities were given broad exposure. She devoted more time to favoured causes, including antivivisectionism and the protection of minors, and her letters afford the reader an in-depth perspective on these and other public issues and on the personal values underlying her opinions.
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• v. 1. 1829-1859
• v. 2. 1860-1865
• v. 3. 1866-1870
• v. 4. 1871-1878
• v. 5. 1879-1884
• v. 6. 1885-1888.

Volume 2 of this six volume set covers the years 1860-65, when Arnold emerged as a critic and went on to consolidate his reputation. His letters record his impressions of Europe on an official school study, with observations of nature within and nature without.
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The publication of all the known letters of Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), when complete in seven volumes, will present close to 4000 letters, nearly five times the number in G.W.E. Russell's two-volume compilation of 1895, many of which appear in their entirety here for the first time. Renowned as a poet and critic, Arnold will be celebrated now as a letter writer. In his introduction, Cecil Y. Lang writes that the letters "may well be the finest portrait of an age and of a person, representing the main movements of mind and of events of nearly half a century and at the same time revealing the intimate life of the participant-observer, in any collection of letters in the 19th century, possibly in existence". Volume 1 begins in 1829 with an account of the Arnold children by their father, the notable headmaster of Rugby School, and closes in 1859, when already a poet and literary critic, Matthew Arnold returned to England after several months on a government educational commission in Europe to find himsef acquiring a European reputation. The letters show him as a child; a schoolboy at Winchester and Rugby; a foppish Oxonian; a worldly young main in a perfect, undemanding job; then as a new husband in an imperfect, too-demanding job; Professor of Poetry at Oxford; and finally as an emergent European critic. The letters, with a consecutiveness rare in such editions, contain a great deal of new information about Arnold and his family, both personal (somtimes intimate) and professional. Two new diaries are included, a long, boyish travelogue-letter and a mature essay-letter on architecture, never before recognized as Arnold's, as well as a handful of letters written to Arnold. Matthew Arnold wrote with wit, humour and warmth of his poetry, his work, his travels throughout Europe and America, and his large and loving family. But most of all, what comes across in these letters, writes Lang, is that "Arnold loved to live - the world within and the world without chiming togther...And he learned to live with a boring, demanding, underpaid, unrewarding occupation largely because - questing intellectual, husband and father, school inspector, clubbable man-about-town and cosmopolite-about-Europe and America, fisherman, skater, voracious reader - he learned to live".
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The letters in this volume show Arnold, now midway in his professional career, publishing his first volume of poems in a decade and emerging as a critic - simultaneously - of society, of education, of religion, and, as always, of politics. In 1867 he publishes "New Poems", containing several of his best-known and most beloved works, "Dover Beach, "Thyrsis", "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse", and many others, including the first reprint since 1852 of "Empedocles on Etna", and in 1869 "Culture and Anarchy", of which the germ is visible in a remarkable letter to his mother in 1867, as well as the influential reports on continental schools, and the seminal "St. Paul and Protestantism". The letters to his mother and other family members continue unabated; two of his sons die, their deaths recorded in wrenching accents; his essays, possibly by design, draw flak from all directions, which Arnold evades (any poet to any critic) as adroitly or disarmingly as usual; for two years he takes into his home an Italian prince; and he is awarded an honourary Oxford degree. He remains in every way both Establishment and anti-Establishment, both courteous, as has been said, and something better than courteous: honest.
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In this final volume of the Virginia edition of Arnold's letters, Arnold joins for the last time a Royal Commission on Education, travelling first to Germany, and then on to Switzerland and Paris. Following his wife and younger daughter, Arnold also makes his second American visit, this time to see "the Midget", his first grandchild. Both missions reveal his well-known and characteristic zest for people and places - new acquaintances, new scenery, the total experience of living - observing, absorbing, recording and moving on. Finally, with maximum nostalgia and minimum regret, he resigned the inspectorship of schools in which he had spent nearly all of his adult existence and settles down, in sweet, bucolic content, to the life of a country squire. Then, tragically, abruptly and predictably, it screeches to a halt. Manifestly, he had lived daily with intimations of mortality. The series-cumulative index included with this volume is a valuable resource for tracking Arnold's records of his active life.
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The emotional and moral centre of this collection is the series of letters written during Arnold's first American visit, during which he ranged from New York and New England to Madison, Chicago, Richmond, Washington, Toronto, Montreal and Quebec. Like most visiting British luminaries, he meets everyone, everywhere, including the president and former president, the Delanos, the Roosevelts, the Vanderbilts and especially Andrew Carnegie. But the visit - a lecture tour taken to pay off his sons debts - had other and far more significant repercussions, for Arnold was accompanied by his wife and by his elder daughter, who met the man she was to marry - the direct cause of a second American visit and, in due course, of a flourishing branch of Arnold descendants in the United States.
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This is the fourth in a series of six volumes collecting together all the known letters of Matthew Arnold. In his writings, Arnold ranges from religion to literature; "St Paul and Protestantism" in 1870 is followed by "Literature and Dogma, God and the Bible", and "Last Essays on Church and Religion". These books have all more or less been forgotten, but in the 1870s they were an integral part of intellectual culture, as was "Friendship's Garland". Equally, the letters here contribute to chronicle Arnold's personal life in the characteristically intimate note of all his correspondence. Arnold loses a son, a brother and his mother (as well as his mother-in-law), and he moves seamlessly from the marvellous letters to his sister remaining at Fox How almost as of he had been writing all along not merely to an individual but also to a spiritual anchor, or even to his moral centre. Arnold travels to France, Switzerland and Italy, recording as always his incomparable impressions. He settles, finally, in Surrey, and poignantly says farewell to his youth in "George Sand".
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