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Beowulf and the Roots of Anglo-Saxon Poetry Contemporary North American poetry series Great courses (Compact disc) Great courses (DVD) Library of America special publication Poetry heaven Poets on poetry The Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 1981-1982 The Story of English Worlds of EnglishEnglish, Charlie
Summary: "This is a tragedy that begins in the halls of psychiatry and modern art and ends in the Nazis' first gas chambers. In the early 1920s, Hans Prinzhorn, a psychiatrist and aesthete, sought insight from the art of mental patients such as Franz Buhler. Buhler was a brilliant, well-known ironworker until his schizophrenia diagnosis, and his work was compared to that of Munch and Duhrer. Prinzhorn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700.943 ENGEnglish, Ashley
Summary: Whether you want to make pickles from cucumbers grown in your own garden or turn those berries you scored at the farmers' market into delicious jam, here's the book that will make it fun and simple--even if you're a beginner. Ashley English offers clear information to help you get started, how-to steps, invaluable troubleshooting tips, tons of inspiration, plus profiles of home canners.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lark Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Pre EnglishMetres, Philip
Summary: "This book attempts to provide a context for a poetics of resistance and refuge that predates the Trump Age and will be necessary long after it. In order to survive such moments, we need to glean the present and past for what might sustain us for the work ahead. The Sound of Listening gathers ten years of essays on poetry and builds on Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 METSummary: How did a language originally spoken in just a small part of the British Isles come to dominate the communication of so many different countries? From its start as a diverse group of Anglo-Saxon dialects and all the way onward to adoption on a global scale, this program tracks the establishment of English as the world’s common tongue. English crossed the sea by means of settlement, trade, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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English, Lawrence
Contents: The Liquid Casket -- Wilderness of Mirrors -- Guillotines and Kingmakers -- Another Body Wrapped in Skin -- Wrapped in Skin -- Forgiving Noir -- Graceless Hunter -- Hapless Gatherer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ENGEnglish, Charlie
Summary: The story of how a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts into hiding when al-Qaeda-linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines a fraught and fascinating account of one of the planet's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.2 ENGSummary: Gullah-the African-influenced dialect of Georgia's Sea Islands-has undergone few changes since the first slave ships landed 300 years ago, and provides a clear window into the shaping of African-American English. This classic PBS program traces that story from the west coast of Africa through the American South, then to large northern cities in the 1920s. Studying the origins of West African...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Lerer, Seth
Summary: Presents lectures on the history of the English language.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 1998
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 420 LER PART ICall number: CD 420 LER PART III
Bad English (Musical group)
Contents: Best of what I got / J. Waite, J. Cain, N. Schon -- Heaven is a 4 letter word / N. Schon, J. Cain, J. Waite, M. Spiro -- Possession / J. Waite, J. Cain, R. Phillips -- Forget me not / J. Waite, J. Cain, M. Spiro -- When I see you smile / D. Warren -- Tough times don't last / J. Cain, D. Roberts, J. Waite -- Ghost in your heart / J. Waite, M. Page, J. Cain -- Price of love / J. Waite, J. Cain --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1989
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Place a hold to request this item.Finkelstein, Norman
Summary: "This beautifully written work begins with an overview of the spiritual problematics found in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American poetry. Traveling slightly outside of the realm of the contemporary, Finkelstein's discussions of Emerson, Whitman, and Eliot yield to close readings of the works of Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Ronald Johnson, Michael Palmer, Susan Howe, Nathaniel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Iowa Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 FINSummary: This program features the poems of Louis Jenkins, Hal Sirowitz, Philip Levine, Joy Harjo, Robert Creeley, Brenda Hillman, Robert Hass, and others. In addition, several poets discuss poetry as work and what it's like to share a life of poetry with fellow writers; young winners of a statewide poetry contest read several of their poems; and advice for fledgling poets is offered. Filmed at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Day-to-day use of English has impacted local languages everywhere, spawning the growth of variants such as India’s Hinglish and Singlish in Singapore. Do these variations undermine language, or do they enrich it? This program examines the emergence of hybrid forms of English and discusses their pros and cons. A push by the Singapore government to promote Standard English was met with fierce,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Will standard English, as it was known in the 20th century, disappear? Will English continue as the global tongue, or will its numerous varieties become, as offshoots of Latin did, a host of mutually unintelligible languages? This classic PBS program features new varieties of English that have transcended British and American influence. The program focuses on some of the most successful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Beowulf is the oldest written epic in English literature. In this program, Dr. Robert DiNapoli-teaching fellow in Old and Middle English at the University of Birmingham, England-and Professor John Burrow of Bristol University examine the symbolism and the influence of Christianity in Beowulf and other masterpieces of English and Germanic poetry. The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Dream of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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English, T. J.
Summary: "From T.J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 ENGModern English (Musical group)
Contents: Someone's calling -- Life in the gladhouse -- Face of wood -- Dawn chorus -- I melt with you -- After the snow -- Carry me down -- Tables turning -- Someone's calling (remix) -- Life in the gladhouse (remix) -- I melt with you (7" mix) -- The prize -- Life in the gladhouse (12" mix) -- The choicest view.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MODRilke, Rainer Maria
Summary: "With more than two hundred and fifty selected poems by Rilke, including complete translations of the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies, The Poetry of Rilke spans the arc of Rilke's work, from the breakthrough poems of The Book of Hours to the visionary masterpieces written only weeks before his death. This landmark bilingual edition also contains all of Snow's commentaries on Rilke, as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 RILSummary: Three versions of the Judgment of Solomon story illustrate the changes that have taken place in the English language across more than a millennium: from Aelfric's 10th-century account of how Solomon's wisdom reached to the truth, through Middle, to Early Modern and Modern English. At each stage, the grammar and vocabulary of the pieces are analyzed, as are the social assumptions of the writers....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: The Poetry Hall of Fame showcases more than 130 of the world’s best-known poems cleverly performed and artistically interpreted by The First Poetry Quartet and celebrity guests. Simply an incredible collection of great writers and a wonderful journey through great poems. Within these words one may find all the love, joy, hope, fear, enchantment, and humor that is the human spirit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1993
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Hirsch, Edward
Summary: "We live in unsettled times. What is America and who are we as a people? How do we understand the dreams and betrayals that have shaped the American experience? For poet and critic Edward Hirsch, poetry opens up new ways of answering these questions, of reconnecting with one another and with what's best in us. In this landmark new book from Library of America, Hirsch offers deeply personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.1 HIRSummary: This course introduces the student to the history of the English language, from its origins as a dialect of the Germanic-speaking peoples, through the literary and cultural documents of its 1500 year span, to the state of American speech of the present day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2008
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 420.9 HISCall number: DVD 420.9 HIS
Summary: English is a language spoken by two billion people, perhaps even more. This classic PBS program examines the prevalence of English in the world today and presents a historical overview of its rise. Focusing on the expansion of the British Empire and the emergence of English-language mass media, the program explains how widespread English usage survived Britain's post-WWII decolonization,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Milosz, Czeslaw.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 0000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Women poets in nineteenth-century France made important contributions to major stylistic innovations - from the birth of elegiac Romanticism to the inauguration of free verse - and many were prominent in their lifetime. Yet only a few are known today, and nearly all have been unavailable in English translation. Of the fourteen poets of this anthology - the third bilingual volume in the MLA...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Language Association of America 2008