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"A sweeping collection and a tribute to one of the most influential, daring, and visionary minds of the twentieth century The year 2015 marks several literary milestones: the centennial of Saul Bellow's birth, the tenth anniversary of his death, and the publication of Zachary Leader's much anticipated biography. Bellow, a Nobel Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner, and the only novelist to receive three National Book awards, has long been regarded as one of America's most cherished authors. Here, Benjamin Taylor, editor of the acclaimed Saul Bellow: Letters, presents lesser-known aspects of the iconic writer. Arranged chronologically, this literary time capsule displays the full extent of Bellow's nonfiction, including criticism, interviews, speeches, and other reflections, tracing his career from his initial success as a novelist until the end of his life. Bringing together six classic pieces with an abundance of previously uncollected material, There Is Simply Too Much to Think About is a powerful reminder not only of Bellow's genius but also of his enduring place in the western canon and is sure to be widely reviewed and talked about for years to come"-- Provided by publisher.

• Intro
• Title Page
• List of Principal Abbreviations Used
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction
• Scotland (1717-1723)
• Snuff
• Glotta
• Dublin: Hibernicus's Letters (1724-1727)
• Introduction to "Hibernicus"
• Literary Essays
• Literary: Horace Translations
• Hibernicus: The Philosophy of Francis Hutcheson
• Hibernicus: Politics
• Hibernicus: Religion and the Penal Laws
• Arbuckle, The Tribune, and Swift (1728-1730)
• Arbuckle and Swift: The Tribune (1729)
• Arbuckle and Swift: A Panegyric (1730)
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Bibliography
• Index.

This work contains a selection of James Arbuckle's poems and essays presented in a first modern scholarly edition with a biographical introduction. The work, which includes original poems, translations of Horace, satires on Swift, essays on politics, politeness and the early Scottish Enlightenment, offers new insights into early eighteenth-century British and Irish culture.
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• Acknowledgments; Living in Maine; Pedagogy; A Son from Russia; A Son from Ukraine; Clarinetistry; Nostalgia; Travels; Living Language; About the Author.

For twenty years, readers of the ""Christian Science Monitor"" have enjoyed the musings of a singular writer who has brought his talent to bear on a wide range of human-interest subjects. Robert Klose has attracted fans from all walks of life, from physicians to farmers to teachers, and his unique insights on life are seasoned with gentle, often laugh-out-loud humor. The cream of Klose's columns has now been gathered in this delightful book culled largely from the more than 250 pieces written for the ""Monitor"". ""Small Worlds"" captures his graceful prose and engaging voice in brief essays whose subjects range from the joys of small-town hardware stores and Converse sneakers to the challenges of learning a foreign language or traveling abroad. In these pieces, readers will find themselves in the company of a wordsmith who is warm, funny, and smart - a man passionate about many subjects. Within these pages are memorable stories about Klose's life: his childhood pet piranha, his love of the clarinet, his attempts to learn Polish. He shares touching moments of his experience raising adoptive sons, from his first encounter with Alyosha in a Russian orphanage - a bond sealed with a Pez dispenser - to learning to counsel six-year-old Anton about puppy love. Klose also depicts his life in Maine, where pursuit of warmth is a prime occupation and culture is best defined by a deserted Downeast beach or a pick-your-own strawberry farm. In addition to this breadth of subject matter, the wide range of forms in which Klose writes - social and cultural commentary, travel writing, humor, and more - makes these essays excellent examples for fledgling writers. Whether poignantly reflecting on the parent-child relationship or nostalgically recollecting the old-fashioned ice cream soda, Robert Klose is a writer whose voice rings true and is sure to appeal to fans of other humorists like Garrison Keillor or Jean Shepherd. ""Small Worlds"" is a deft blending of wisdom and whimsy, a celebration of the art of the essay that lovers of fine writing will take to their hearts.
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• Introduction;
• 1. Wild;
• 2. A Little Forgetful;
• 3. Proof;
• 4. Chat;
• 5. Butterfly Dreams;
• 6. All My Days Are Saturdays;
• 7. Unnecessaries;
• 8. False Stop;
• 9. Not My Will;
• 10. Undead;
• 11. September 30;
• 12. The Idles of May;
• 13. Variations on a Theme during Fall; Afterword.

A New York Times article once stated that "the art of the essay as delivered by [Sam] Pickering is the art of the front porch ramble." As Pickering himself puts it, "Well, I have gotten considerably older, and humor has come to mean more and more to me. And if I'm on the front porch, I am in a rocking chair." All My Days Are Saturdays offers fifteen new pieces in which he ponders a world that has changed and, in new ways, still delights him. This collection features Pickering writing about teaching and his recent retirement, visits to various locales, and, as he tell us, "the many people I meet...who tell me their stories, small tales that make one laugh and sigh." Distinctive and unmistakable, Pickering's style deftly mixes the colloquial language of everyday life with references to a lifetime of extensive reading. The seamless blend of these two worlds in his writing is indicative of how they fuse together in his daily life. As Pickering puts it, "All my life I have roamed libraries, almost as much as I have roamed the natural world. I try to get at many truths, but when I tell the truth, I `tell it slant.' I do so to describe life as it is and indeed celebrate that `as it is." "Pickering is a master of his craft, one of the finest of personal essayists around, and these essays bear many of the characteristics of his other volumes - reflections on his everyday activities and on individuals around him, humorous exchanges with his wife, and so forth. But this volume seems to have something else as well. We find here a thoughtful meditation on time and self and relative old age demonstrating a close attention to the natural world - a tone not unlike Thoreau's at times." - Fred C. Hobson, Professor of English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and author or editor of fourteen books, most recently A Southern Enigma: Essays on the U.S. South.
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• Introduction;
• 1. Wild;
• 2. A Little Forgetful;
• 3. Proof;
• 4. Chat;
• 5. Butterfly Dreams;
• 6. All My Days Are Saturdays;
• 7. Unnecessaries;
• 8. False Stop;
• 9. Not My Will;
• 10. Undead;
• 11. September 30;
• 12. The Idles of May;
• 13. Variations on a Theme during Fall; Afterword.

A New York Times article once stated that "the art of the essay as delivered by [Sam] Pickering is the art of the front porch ramble." As Pickering himself puts it, "Well, I have gotten considerably older, and humor has come to mean more and more to me. And if I'm on the front porch, I am in a rocking chair." All My Days Are Saturdays offers fifteen new pieces in which he ponders a world that has changed and, in new ways, still delights him. This collection features Pickering writing about teaching and his recent retirement, visits to various locales, and, as he tell us, "the many people I meet...who tell me their stories, small tales that make one laugh and sigh." Distinctive and unmistakable, Pickering's style deftly mixes the colloquial language of everyday life with references to a lifetime of extensive reading. The seamless blend of these two worlds in his writing is indicative of how they fuse together in his daily life. As Pickering puts it, "All my life I have roamed libraries, almost as much as I have roamed the natural world. I try to get at many truths, but when I tell the truth, I `tell it slant.' I do so to describe life as it is and indeed celebrate that `as it is." "Pickering is a master of his craft, one of the finest of personal essayists around, and these essays bear many of the characteristics of his other volumes - reflections on his everyday activities and on individuals around him, humorous exchanges with his wife, and so forth. But this volume seems to have something else as well. We find here a thoughtful meditation on time and self and relative old age demonstrating a close attention to the natural world - a tone not unlike Thoreau's at times." - Fred C. Hobson, Professor of English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and author or editor of fourteen books, most recently A Southern Enigma: Essays on the U.S. South.
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• PART I: THE ROAD TO NETHER STOWEY
• PART II: BEYOND XANADU
• PART III: A PHILOSOPHER IN GRUB STREET
• PART IV: THE PLAIN SPEAKER
• PART V: THE NEW PYGMALION
• PART VI: MR HAZLITT'S GRAND TOUR
• PART VII: LONDON SOLITUDE.
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Romanticism is where the modern age begins, and Hazlitt was its most articulate spokesman. No one else had the ability to see it whole; no one else knew so many of its politicians, poets, and philosophers. By interpreting it for his contemporaries, he speaks to us of ourselves - of the culture and world we now inhabit. Perhaps the most important development of his time, the creation of a mass media, is one that now dominates our lives. Hazlitt's livelihood was dependent on it. As the biography argues, he took political sketch-writing to a new level, invented sports commentary as we know it, and created the essay-form as practised by Clive James, Gore Vidal, and Michael Foot. Duncan Wu's profile of one of the greatest journalists in the language draws on over a decade of archival research in libraries across Britain and North America, to reveal for the first time such matters as why Godwin broke with Hazlitt; how Hazlitt came to know Sir John Soane and J. M. W. Turner; the true nature of Hazlitt's dealings with Thomas Medwin, and what the likes of Joseph Farington and Sir Thomas Lawrence thought of him. In addition, it sheds new light on Hazlitt's dealings with such figures as Francis Jeffrey, Robert Stodart, John M'Creery, Henry Crabb Robinson, Joseph Parkes, John Cam Hobhouse, and Stendhal. It benefits also from Wu's New Writings of William Hazlitt, many of which make their appearance here, illuminating hitherto obscure passages of Hazlitt's life.
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• INTRODUCTION / Peng Hsiao-yen
• TRANSLATORS' INTRODUCTION
• Winter Sun, Childhood Years, the Camel Caravan
• Hui-an Hostel
• Let Us Go and See the Sea
• Lan I-niang
• Donkey Rolls
• I held tightly on to a ...
• Papa's Flowers Have Fallen
• And I Was No Longer a Child.

• Table Of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chronology; Leacock's Essays;
• 1. Life on the Old Farm (1944);
• 2. My Remarkable Uncle (1941);
• 3. The Struggle to Make Us Gentlemen (1941);
• 4. My Education and What I Think of It Now (1944);
• 5. Looking Back on College (1936);
• 6. On the Need for a Quiet College (1938);
• 7. Andrew Macphail (1938);
• 8. How Much Does Language Change? (1938);
• 9. From the Ridiculous to the Sublime (1935);
• 10. What Is Left of Adam Smith? (1935);
• 11. Through a Glass Darkly (1936);
• 12. So This Is Winnipeg (1937);
• 13. The Land of Dreams (1937);
• 14. I'll Stay in Canada (1936).

In the last decade of his life, Leacock turned to writing informal essays that blended humour with a conversational style and ripened wisdom to address the issues he cared about most - education, literature, economics, Canada and its place in the world - and to confront the joys and sorrows of his own life. With an introduction that sets them in the context of his life, thoughts, and times, these essays reveal a passionate, intellegent, personal Leacock, against a backdrop of Depression and war, finding hope and conveying the timeless message that only the human spirit can bring social justice.

• The cruelty and beauty of words
• Censorship in Americas
• Celts and Irishmens
• Literary provincialisms
• The modern novel: a Catholic point of views
• Revamping Irelands
• Roger Casements
• Dickens and Thackerays
• Daniel Corkerys
• The dangers of censorships
• Don Quixote O'Flahertys
• This is your magazines
• Jack B. Yeatss
• Frederick Robert Higgins (1896-1941)s
• Ah, Wisha! The Irish novels
• Standards and tastes
• Ulsters
• Our nasty novelistss
• The Gaelic Leagues
• The mart of ideass
• That typical Irishmans
• The senate and censorships
• Gaelic : the truths
• Ireland and the Modern Worlds
• On state controls
• Books and a live peoples
• The strange case of Sean O'Caseys
• The stuffed shirtss
• Shadow and substances
• The plain people of Irelands
• The State and its Writerss
• The university questions
• Toryism in Trinitys
• One worlds
• The pleasures and pains of Irelands
• The Gaelic cults
• Eamon de Valeras
• Romance and realisms
• One world: an Irish Councils
• All things considered
• Shaw's prefacess
• Rebel by vocations
• On translating from the Irishs
• The dilemma of Irish letterss
• Religious arts
• Autoantiamericanisms
• The death of nationalisms
• The Dáil and the bishopss
• On a recent incident at the International Affairs Associations
• The Irish and the Latinss
• Love among the Irishs
• Fifty years of Irish writings
• A portrait of the artist as an old man.

"Sean O'Faolain (1900-1991) was one of the most important Irish writers in the first half of the twentieth century. He is most admired and best remembered for his 90 or so short stories, which first appeared in book form in 1932 and continued to do so until his Collected Stories were published in 1980. But he also wrote novels, biographies, travel, a memoir, and so on. O'Faolain joined the IRA as a young man and fought in the Irish War of Independence. By the 1930s his politics had altered. He lived for a time in both the United States and England before returning to Ireland (and eventually becoming director of the Irish Arts Council), and became known as an outspoken critic of the narrow conservatism and provincialism of Irish society. Especially important in this light are the years between 1940 and 1946, when he served as editor of The Bell, the most important cultural magazine in Dublin at the time."-- Provided by publisher.
"This book includes a generous selection of O'Faolain's essays, just over half of them written for The Bell, but also others that first appeared in a variety of magazines in the USA and the UK as well as Ireland. They span a period from 1928 to 1976. The state of Ireland--its politics, history, religion, censorship, languages, literature and culture--is a constant and predominant theme. But the book also includes essays on other topics, e.g. Charles Dickens, censorship in America, religious art, and the final "Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man." Brad Kent has added voluminous notes and an illuminating introduction that sets O'Faolain in the context, not only of Irish writers, but of public intellectuals in his time elsewhere."-- Provided by publisher.

• Contents
• Introduction
• A Fine Place to Start
• Victoriaâ€?s Secret and the Cosmos
• Teetotal
• Here We Go Again
• Re-decaffeinated
• The Big Thankful
• Avulsion Aversion
• Logger Clogs
• Ring On, Ring Off
• Walking Nowhere
• Cheaters
• Gozzled
• No Limits
• The Road
• Priorities
• Reasonableness
• Past Tents, Present Tents
• First Time
• Taking the Air
• Sweaty Cheese and Injured Cereal
• A World Away
• Flying above the Canvas
• Black Dog
• Canvas Rain
• The Inner Circle
• Song for My Daughters

• Pet of the WeekDumpster Date
• Chicken Coop Campout
• Typhoid Mary
• That Cat
• Used Car Shopping
• Firewood Friend
• Tough Granny
• The White Pine
• Christmas Tree Kids
• Neverending New Year
• A Sense of Pitch
• Happy Mourning Music
• Coolsville
• Steve Earle, Life Coach
• Advice from a Grammy Winner
• Blues for Amateurs
• Guitar Girls
• Lock Up the Chickens
• Asparagus
• Unfarmer
• Skunk War
• Haute Pig Feed
• E- I- IPO
• Cock- a- Doodle- Ego
• Snow Plow Trouble
• Really Free- Range Chicken
• Pathfinding

• Friends and Neighbors The Cutting Edge
• Friendly Fencing
• Truck Talk
• John Deere Funeral
• Ambulance Karma
• Tom and Arlene in Love
• In the Wake of the Wake
• Acknowledgments

"From Scandihoovian Spanglish to snickering chickens, New York Times bestselling author and humorist Michael Perry navigates a wide range of topics in this collection of brief essays drawn from his weekly appearances on the nationally syndicated Tent Show Radio program. Fatherhood, dumpster therapy, dangerous wedding rings, Christmas trees, used cars, why you should have bacon in your stock portfolio, loggers in clogs-whatever the subject, Perry has a rare ability to touch both the funny bone and the heart"-- Provided by publisher

• D.I. ESSAYS
• D.II. ESSAYS ETC.
• D.IV. A PLATONIC DIALOGUE
• D.V. ESSAYS. SCULPTURE, ETC.
• D.VI. ESSAYS
• D.III. ESSAYS FOR W. H. PATER, ESQ.
• D.VIII. NOTES ON PLATO'S PHILOSOPHY
• D.XI ESSAYS FOR ROBERT WILLIAMS
• D.X ESSAYS FOR T. H. GREEN ESQ.
• D.IX ESSAYS HILARY TERM 1867
• D.VII EXTRACTS ETC
• D.XII NOTES ON GREEK PHILOSOPHY.
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The first of eight volumes of Hopkins's Collected Works to be published, Oxford Essays and Notes presents a remarkable cache of previously unpublished papers, including forty-five essays which Hopkins produced during his undergraduate career at Oxford (1863-1867), only seven of which were reproduced in the 1959 edition of Journals and Papers. Topics range from Platonic philosophy to theories of the imagination, from ancient history to then-contemporary politics and voting rights. Also included are notes from a commonplace book, a remarkable 'dialogue' about aesthetics (featuring a fictionalized John Ruskin figure), and the lecture notes Hopkins prepared in the winter of 1868 while teaching at John Henry Newman's Oratory School in Birmingham-writings in which he explores, for the first time, the theories of inscape and instress so central to his poetic practice. The edition is fully annotated and provides a detailed introduction that situates historically Hopkins's academic and creative efforts. The twelve notebooks represent Hopkins's intellectual and aesthetic development while studying with some of the greatest scholars of the era (Benjamin Jowett, Walter Pater, and T. H. Green), as well as the ethical and spiritual anxieties he wrestled with while deciding to convert to Catholicism (John Henry Newman received him into the Church in 1866). Hopkins never wrote to please his tutors or the university professors-he wrote vividly and searchingly in response to the challenges they presented. Whether evaluating Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, the role of 'neutral' England in the American civil war, or the comparative merits of classical sculpture, his first instinct was always to frame the difficult questions involved and work towards a 'counter' argument.
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• D.I. ESSAYS
• D.II. ESSAYS ETC.
• D.IV. A PLATONIC DIALOGUE
• D.V. ESSAYS. SCULPTURE, ETC.
• D.VI. ESSAYS
• D.III. ESSAYS FOR W. H. PATER, ESQ.
• D.VIII. NOTES ON PLATO'S PHILOSOPHY
• D.XI ESSAYS FOR ROBERT WILLIAMS
• D.X ESSAYS FOR T. H. GREEN ESQ.
• D.IX ESSAYS HILARY TERM 1867
• D.VII EXTRACTS ETC
• D.XII NOTES ON GREEK PHILOSOPHY.
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The first of eight volumes of Hopkins's Collected Works to be published, Oxford Essays and Notes presents a remarkable cache of previously unpublished papers, including forty-five essays which Hopkins produced during his undergraduate career at Oxford (1863-1867), only seven of which were reproduced in the 1959 edition of Journals and Papers. Topics range from Platonic philosophy to theories of the imagination, from ancient history to then-contemporary politics and voting rights. Also included are notes from a commonplace book, a remarkable 'dialogue' about aesthetics (featuring a fictionalized John Ruskin figure), and the lecture notes Hopkins prepared in the winter of 1868 while teaching at John Henry Newman's Oratory School in Birmingham-writings in which he explores, for the first time, the theories of inscape and instress so central to his poetic practice. The edition is fully annotated and provides a detailed introduction that situates historically Hopkins's academic and creative efforts. The twelve notebooks represent Hopkins's intellectual and aesthetic development while studying with some of the greatest scholars of the era (Benjamin Jowett, Walter Pater, and T. H. Green), as well as the ethical and spiritual anxieties he wrestled with while deciding to convert to Catholicism (John Henry Newman received him into the Church in 1866). Hopkins never wrote to please his tutors or the university professors-he wrote vividly and searchingly in response to the challenges they presented. Whether evaluating Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, the role of 'neutral' England in the American civil war, or the comparative merits of classical sculpture, his first instinct was always to frame the difficult questions involved and work towards a 'counter' argument.
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• Introduction
• Epistolarum familiarium liber unus. Preface: The Printer to the Reader
• 1. To Thomas Young (26 March 1627)
• 2. To Alexander Gil (20 May 1630)
• 3. To Alexander Gil (July 1629)
• 4. To Thomas Young (21 July 1628)
• 5. To Alexander Gil (4 December 1634)
• 6. To Charles Diodati (2 September 1637)
• 7. To Charles Diodati (23 September 1637)
• 8. To Benedetto Buonmattei (10 September 1638)
• 9. To Lucas Holstenius (30 March 1639)
• 10. To Carlo Dati (21 April 1647)
• 11. To Hermann Mylius (31 December 1651)
• 12. To Leonard Philaras (June 1652)
• 13. To Richard Heath (13 December 1652)
• 14. To Henry Oldenburg (6 July 1654)
• 15. To Leonard Philaras (28 September 1654)
• 16. To Lieuwe van Aitzema (5 February 1655)
• 17. To Ezekiel Spanheim (24 March 1655)
• 18. To Henry Oldenburg (25 June 1656)
• 19. To Richard Jones (21 September 1656)
• 20. To Peter Heimbach (8 November 1656)
• 21. To Emery Bigot (24 March 1657)
• 22. To Richard Jones (c. May 1656)
• 23. To Henri de Brass (15 July 1657)
• 24. To Henry Oldenburg (1 August 1657)
• 25. To Richard Jones (1 August 1657)
• 26. To Henri de Brass (16 December 1657)
• 27. To Peter Heimbach (18 December 1657)
• 28. To Jean de Labadie (27 April 1659)
• 29. To Henry Oldenburg (20 December 1659)
• 30. To Richard Jones (20 December 1659)
• 31. To Peter Heimbach (15 August 1666)
• Epistolae to Hermann Mylius. General Headnote
• 1. 7 November 1651
• 2. 31 December 1651
• 3. 8 January 1652
• 4. 20 January 1652
• 5. 10 February 1652
• 6. 13 February 1652
• 7. 21 February 1652
• Uncollected vernacular letters. 1. To an Unnamed Friend (c. 1633)
• 2. To Bulstrode Whitelocke (21 February 1652)
• 3. To John Bradshaw (21 February 1653)
• Appendix. Latin letters to Milton.

First full-scale edition of John Milton's Latin and uncollected vernacular letters. John Milton holds an impressive place within the rich tradition of neo-Latin epistolography. His Epistolae Familiares and uncollected letters paint an invigorating portrait of the artist as a young man, offering insight into his reading programme, his views on education, friendship, poetry, his relations with continental literati, his blindness, and his role as Latin Secretary. This edition presents a modernised Latin text and a facing English translation, complemented by a detailed introduction and a comprehensive commentary. Situating Milton's letters in relation to the classical, pedagogical, neo-Latin, and vernacular contexts at the heart of their composition, it presents fresh evidence in regard to Milton's relationships with the Italian philologist Benedetto Buonmattei, the Greek humanist Leonard Philaras, the radical pastor Jean de Labadie, and the German diplomat Peter Heimbach. It also announces several new discoveries, most notably a manuscript of Henry Oldenburg's transcription of Ep. Fam. 25.

• List of illustrations
• Notes on contributors
• Preface
• List of abbreviations
• Chronology Sterling F. Delano
• Part I. Emerson and a Sense of Place(s): 1. Boston and Concord Jacob Risinger
• 2. America Roger Thompson
• 3. Britain Wesley T. Mott
• 4. Europe Jan Stievermann
• 5. Asia Alan Hodder
• 6. Travel Jason Berger
• Part II. Emerson and Ideas: 'The Wide World': 7. Reading Jennifer Gurley
• 8. Literature Albert J. von Frank
• 9. Poetry and poetics Saundra Morris
• 10. Nature David Greenham
• 11. Divinity David M. Robinson
• 12. Human mind Kristin Boudreau
• 13. History Neal Dolan
• 14. Democracy Daniel S. Malachuk
• 15. Revolution Daniel Koch
• 16. Science and technology Jennifer J. Baker
• Part III. Emerson and Society: 'Hodiernal Circles': 17. Life against death Ronald A. Bosco
• 18. Family Noelle Baker
• 19. Friendship John Lysaker
• 20. Ethics Susan L. Dunston
• 21. Clubs Alfred G. Litton
• 22. Gender Leslie Elizabeth Eckel
• 23. Race Len Gougeon
• 24. Reform Todd H. Richardson
• 25. Money Joel Myerson
• 26. Publishers David O. Dowling
• Part IV. Emerson and his Legacies: From Infidel to Icon: 27. Portraits Leslie Perrin Wilson
• 28. Fame Bonnie Carr O'Neill
• 29. Biography Robert D. Habich
• 30. Critics: 1836-1948 Glen M. Johnson
• 31. Critics: 1948-2013 Randall Fuller
• 32. A national icon Jillmarie Murphy
• Further reading
• Index.
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This collection of newly commissioned essays maps the vital contextual backgrounds to Ralph Waldo Emerson's life and work. The volume begins with a detailed chronology of Emerson's life and publishing history, setting the stage for a wide-ranging discussion of his geographic and environmental contexts from early and later life, including his travels and intellectual encounters with the United States, Europe and Asia. It goes on to survey the intellectual terrain of the nineteenth century, exploring Emerson's relationship with key philosophical, aesthetic, theological, scientific, familial, social and political contexts and issues. Finally, it assesses the popular and critical receptions that have solidified Emerson's legacy as a towering figure in American literature, criticism and culture today. Fans, students and scholars will turn to this reference time and again for a fuller understanding of this seminal American writer.
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This study is the first treatment devoted to Sir Arthur Helps (1813-1875), who was a prominent figure in the mid-Victorian world. Readers will discover that from the 1840s until his death, Helps was influential and well-known to many key figures: Carlyle, Ruskin, Froude and the Queen were among those whom he befriended. In fact, it was almost certainly these relationships which Helps sought to protect by directing that the bulk of his private papers and correspondence be destroyed upon his death. Making use of extensive primary and secondary sources, this book begins the process of recovering this once eminent Victorian. Helps did become a forgotten figure, but, nevertheless, during the course of his career he made notable impacts upon many areas of British life. At once a social activist and literary figure, Helps labored to promote social reform while also lifting his pen to educate his readers about the complexity of both societal problems and the difficulties inherent in adequately addressing them. He looked well beyond Britain as well: it would be Helps who authored a four volume history of the Spanish conquest of the New World, while developing unrivaled expertise on the history and practice of slavery in the Americas. As Clerk of the Privy Council, Helps played a decisive role in addressing the problems caused by the 'Cattle Plague' which shocked Britain in the middle of the 1860s. Most important, perhaps, it would be as Clerk that Helps served Queen Victoria not only as an informal confidant, but by making decisions which refashioned the monarchy's public image. The book, then, reintroduces Helps by documenting and assessing his contributions to Victorian Britain.
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• Machine generated contents note: Forever Young: A Preface / Michael Brodrick
• Dancing with Emerson / Deborah Digges
• 1. Emerson: An Introduction / Mary Oliver
• 2. Single Vision / Robert C. Pollock
• Windfall / William Heyen
• 3. Spires of Influence / John J. McDermott
• 4. Teaching for Lustres: An Essay on the Emersonian Teacher / Arthur S. Lothstein
• Continental College of Beauty / Mark Strand
• 5. Emerson at The Gates / David LaRocca
• 6. Taking Emerson Personally / John Lysaker
• Local Knowledge / Paul Hoover
• 7. Face to Face with Emerson / David Marr
• 8. Emerson's Natures: Origins of and Possibilities for American Environmental Thought / Douglas R. Anderson
• Shudder / Dorene Evans
• 9. Emerson and the Reinvention of Democracy: A Lesson for the Twenty-first Century / Len Gougeon
• 10. Individualism, Natural Law, Human Rights: Emerson on "The Scholar" vis-a-vis Emerson on Reform / Lawrence Buell
• For the Children / Gary Snyder
• 11. After Emerson: Of General Knowledge and the Common Good / Ann Lauterbach
• Letter to Lucia / Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"New Morning brings together philosophers, poets, and literary critics to celebrate and engage the ideas of the great American writer and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson's legacy influences many areas; he was a champion of democracy and civil rights, a naturalist, an idealist, an artist, a writer, and a philosopher. Rather than focusing on Emerson in his historical context, this volume brings to light the ways in which Emerson's voice and work still speak powerfully to the concerns of the present moment. In short essays and poems, some of America's most influential scholars and poets underscore the relevance of Emerson's thought to contemporary issues as varied as the environment, race, politics, spirituality, aesthetics, and education."--Jacket

The first bilingual volume of poems by leading Irish twentieth-century poet Sean O RiordainIn the mid-twentieth century, a new generation of poets writing in Irish emerged, led by the young Sean O Riordain, among others. O Riordain's work has stood the test of time well, and he continues to engage today's Irish readers and writers. This well-rounded selection of poems brings most of O Riordain's works to English-language readers for the first time. The poems appear in their original Irish alongside English translations by some of Ireland's leading poets. Also included for the first time in English is O Riordain's essay What Is Poetry?, considered an extraordinary touchstone of critical insight for poets and literary commentators. The volume reflects O Riordain's seven main concerns: poetry and its place in the artist's life; the plural self; the relationship between the individual and society; gender relations; the nature of animals; Ireland, its language and culture; and mortality.
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"As Voltaire famously opined, Athaliah, Racine's last play, is "perhaps the greatest masterwork of the human spirit." Its formidable antagonists, Athaliah, queen of Judah, and Jehoiada, high priest of the temple of Jerusalem, are engaged in a deadly struggle for dominion: she, fiercely determined to maintain her throne and exterminate the detested race of David; he, no less fiercely determined to overthrow this heathen queen and enthrone the orphan Joash, the scion of the house of David, whom Athaliah believes she slew as an infant ten years earlier. This boy represents the sole hope for the survival of the royal race from which is to spring the Christ. But in this play, even God is more about hate and retribution than about love and mercy. This is the fourth volume of a projected translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine's plays--only the third time such a project has been undertaken. For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Argent has rendered these plays in the verse form that Racine might well have used had he been English: namely, the "heroic" couplet. Argent has exploited the couplet's compressed power and flexibility to produce a work of English literature, a verse drama as gripping in English as Racine's is in French. Complementing the translation are the illuminating discussion, intended as much to provoke discussion as to provide it, and the extensive notes and commentary, which offer their own fresh and thought-provoking insights."--Project Muse.

• Secuestros = Kidnapping
• Linchamientos y mexicanos = Lynching and Mexicans
• Violencias = Types of violence
• El oro blanco de Tamaulipas = The white gold in Tamaulipas
• Se vende un gallego, se matan mexicanos = Sell the Galicians, kill the Mexicans
• La manca de Juárez = The one-armed woman of Juarez
• Evas texanas = Texan Eves
• Wall Street, la estrella cercana de Bettina = Wall Street, the star nearby Bettina
• Cuando Texas se (re)apropia de México (that is, Cuando México se (re)apropia de Texas) = When Mexico recaptures Texas
• El sueño mexicano = The Mexican dream
• El motín de los chamacos de Arizona = A children's riot in Arizona
• Cabellos comanches de Arizona = Comanche hairs
• El francés que defendío México = The Frenchman who defended Mexico
• Sueńos de chicle = Dreams of gum
• Lágrimas y combate = Tears and combat
• Curación a balazos = Healing with bullet wounds
• Espuelas y guayaberas = Spurs and guayaberas
• Glorias (y penas) nacionales = National glories (and pain)
• Dos para un duelo = Two for a duel
• Cuatro poetas solteros guadalupanos = Four bachelor poets devoted to the Virgin of Guadalupe
• Bolívar y Sor Juana, tal vez = Bolívar and Sor Juana, perhaps
• Mary Cassatt y Edgar Degas = Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas
• La batalla de las vírgenes (la Guadalupana contra Remedios) = The battle of the virgins : Guadalupe versus Remedios
• La pintora y el fotógrafo = The painter and the photographer
• Papeles quemados = Burnt papers
• Tortillas envenenadas y barcos insurgentes = Poisoned tortillas and rebel ships
• La cangrejo sufragista y su Virginia = The suffragette crab and her Virginia
• La amante más dulce = The sweetest lover
• La autora de la Odisea, y las olvidadas = The female author of the Odyssey, and the other forgotten ones.

Residents on both sides of the Rio Grande, or the Rio Bravo as it's known in Mexico, have suffered horrific violence as numerous peoples have sought control of the land. In 1836, in what is now Texas, a young girl named Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches who behaved "like vengeful drug dealers, " spearing, scalping and castrating their victims. Spared death, she was adopted by the tribe, only to be "saved" twenty years later by the Texas Rangers. Today, kidnappings continue in Mexico. In this wide-ranging collection of 29 essays, internationally renowned Mexican novelist and essayist Carmen Boullosa explores issues that unite and separate Americans and Mexicans, from the nineteenth century to the present. Themes of greed and barbarism abound. There's Dimaso Salazar, a Mexican captain who in 1841 strung the ears of fallen Texans on a necklace; Susana Chavez, a poet and activist brutally murdered after protesting the killings of women in Ciudad Juarez; and Edelmiro Cavazos, the mayor of the city of Santiago, who was executed during Mexico's ruthless drug wars. Violence is still common on both sides of the border. These thought-provoking essays delve into a variety of subjects, including Occupy Wall Street and Arizona's political offensive against immigrants. Long a feminist, Boullosa also shares her perspective on women's rights, musing on the repression of women artists and the lack of recognition for their work. Similarly, women who participated in wars and rebellions have been forgotten, and the author asserts that erasing them from our memory hurts us all. Containing the author's original Spanish and Nicolas Kanellos' English translation, these are absorbing reflections on Texas-Mexico border history, women's issues, art and literature