Miller, Lucasta
Summary: "A new biography of John Keats that uncovers the reality of his imagination within the context of his time"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEATS, JOHN MILHolmes, Oliver Wendell
Summary: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) served as chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court and as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was nick-named the "Great Dissenter" because of his many dissenting opinions. Holmes is also the author of Kent's Commentaries on the Law (1873) and "The Path of the Law" (1897).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. 1908
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 HOLBronte family
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.8 BROKipling, Rudyard
Summary: This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling contains all of his verse. His poetry uses many rhythms and popular forms of speech, ranging from dramatic monologues to extended ballads. Often mistakenly branded as a fascist, Kipling's attitudes changed over the years, revealing a darker side.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsworth Editions 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.8 KIPTurner, Michael R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1969
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Place a hold to request this item.Rilke, Rainer Maria
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 RILSummary: "In Spain in the 1840s, a group of women had begun to publish poetry. Their verse - Romantic, predominantly lyric, and often linked to liberal reform - was novel and controversial because few women had ventured into print. The poets collected in this anthology asserted in different ways their imagination and literary voice." "Anna-Marie Aldaz offers a discussion of Spanish versification as well...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Language Association of America 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 ANTSummary: "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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 ANTLeopardi, Giacomo
Summary: Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels familiar to us today. A great classical scholar and patriot, he explored metaphysical loneliness in entirely original ways. ... Leopardi's poetry is notoriously difficult to translate, and he has been less well known to English-language readers than his central...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.4 LEOKowalsky, Arnold A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schiffer Pub. 1999
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 738.09 KOWKorda, Michael
Summary: "His epic narrative begins with Rupert Brooke, "the handsomest young man in England" and perhaps its most famous young poet in the halcyon days of the Edwardian Age, and ends five years later with Wilfred Owen, killed in action at twenty-five, only one week before the armistice. With bitter irony, Owen's mother received the telegram informing her of his death on November 11, just as church...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR