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  • A Sweet View

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    A Sweet View explores how writers and artists in the nineteenth century imagined the English countryside as an idyll. The book draws on a very wide range of contemporary sources, and takes in the key makers of the rural idyll, Samuel Palmer, Myles Birket Foster and Richard Jefferies. It also explores the distinctive repertoire of idealized country scenery: the village green, the old country ... Leer más

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    When the going gets tough, the tough get tougher.The ranks of rugby league around the world have been liberally peppered with hardmen. With violence that would never be tolerated off the footy field, the game has always been rough, tough and dangerous. Stiff-arm tackles, headbutts, spear tackles - all aimed at maiming the opposition players - were once just part of the game. But while the thuggery ... Leer más

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    How does Dickens make his readers laugh? What is the distinctive character of Dickensian humour? These are the questions explored in this book on a topic that has been strangely neglected in critical studies over the last half century. Dickens's friend and biographer John Forster declared that: 'His leading quality was Humour.' At the end of Dickens's career he was acclaimed as 'the greatest ... Leer más

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    Patience

    Part of The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript in Modern English Prose Translation

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    "Patience" is the third of the four poems of the Pearl manuscript, a fourteenth century work contemporaneous with Chaucer, Langland and Gower, and acknowledged as a minor masterpiece in its own right.The poet’s usage of the word patience reflects two broad senses: that of accepting misfortune and submitting to physical or mental suffering, and that of waiting, holding back, and exercising ... Leer más

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    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    Part of The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript in Modern English Prose Translation

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    "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" is perhaps the best-known Arthurian romance in the English language, praised by Tolkien as ‘the best conceived and shaped narrative poem of the fourteenth century, indeed of the Middle Ages, in English.’Its story is well-known: New Year celebrations at Camelot are disrupted by the fearsome and strange appearance of the Green Knight who challenges Arthur's court to ... Leer más

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    Cleanness

    Part of The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript in Modern English Prose Translation

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    "Cleanness" is the second of the four poems of the Pearl manuscript, a fourteenth century work contemporaneous with Chaucer, Langland and Gower. Cleanness tells several stories, all related by theme–the disastrous consequences of uncleanness, and the good fortune to be had by being clean.The poet carefully constructs a complex accumulation of stories and examples, whose main source is the Old ... Leer más

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    Poems of the Pearl Manuscript, The

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    For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldron’s The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems for over thirty years. With the changing needs of today's students in mind, the editors produced a complete prose translation of the four poems—the best known of which is "Sir Gawain" and the "Green Knight".The near-literal translations are intended to facilitate ... Leer más

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    Pearl

    Part of The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript in Modern English Prose Translation

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    ‘Lovely pearl, which it pleases a prince to set radiantly in gold so bright….Alas! I lost her in a garden; through the grass to the ground it slipped from me. I languish, grievously wounded by the power of my love for that spotless pearl of mine.’"Pearl" is the first of the four poems of the Pearl manuscript, a fourteenth century work contemporaneous with Chaucer, Langland and Gower. It is widely ... Leer más

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  • Die Coast Bye Cecilia

    Alex, his sister Cecilia, and their two cousins Kate and Sam, land on Toronto Islands in two canoes lashed together like a catamaran after crossing Lake Ontario from Hamilton, where they escaped a disaster of a family reunion. Because Cecilia can't stay awake in boats, and was asleep in the canoes before the escape, she only becomes aware of what happened after the landing. In a rage, she demands ... Leer más

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