Poets of the People's Journal - Newspaper Poetry in Victorian Scotland(Pevná vazba)

Afterlives of the Roman Poets: Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry (Goldschmidt Nora)(Pevná vazba)

Poets of the Chinese Revolution (Benton Gregor)(Pevná vazba)

How poetry and revolution meshed in Red China This is a book of poems by four veteran Chinese revolutionaries. Chen Duxiu led China's early cultural awakening before founding the Communist Party in 1921. Mao led the Party to power in 1949. Zheng Chaolin, Chen Duxiu's disciple and, like him, a

Designs on Death: The Architecture of Scottish Crematoria (Grainger Hilary)(Pevná vazba)

Despite seven out of ten people in Scotland choosing cremation, in many ways crematoria are 'invisible' buildings, visited only by necessity, and they have not received the attention they deserve. Crematoria present a real challenge for architects. They are paradoxical buildings: religious and

Scottish Poems (Carruthers Gerard)(Pevná vazba)

Scotland has produced poetry that is patriotic, that paints landscapes, people and situations, that speaks to personal matters, and those equally everyday matters pertaining to the mind and to the spirit. The Christian heritage of Scotland has been played out in verse, through Celtic devotional

Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution (Allsopp Niall)(Pevná vazba)

Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution presents a new interpretation of the poetry of the English revolution. It focuses on royalist poets who left their cause behind following the abolition of the monarchy, exploring how they re-imagined the traditional language of allegiance in newly

The Secret Gospel of Mark: A Poet's Memoir (Reece Spencer)(Pevná vazba)

An exquisite memoir of a life saved by poetry. This is a portrait of the artist, narrated by a priest and a poet and a gay man with tenderness and searing honesty. Spencer Reece weaves the poetry he loves into how he has lived, the poetry as solace and relief, as confirmation and rescue, as

Biographic Dickens: Great Lives in Graphic Form (Robb Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Most people know that Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was one of the greatest novelists of the Victorian era, whose works include David Copperfield and Great Expectations. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he invented more than 200 original words and phrases; that he always slept facing north, in

Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature (Steer Philip)(Pevná vazba)

How did the emigration of nineteenth-century Britons to colonies of settlement shape Victorian literature? Philip Steer uncovers productive networks of writers and texts spanning Britain, Australia, and New Zealand to argue that the novel and political economy found common colonial ground over

I Am...: A Journal for Extraordinary Kids (Meltzer Brad)(Pevná vazba)

Based on the bestselling series, Ordinary People Change the World, I am...: A Journal for Extraordinary Kids is a friendly prompted journal encouraging children to discover their own extraordinary qualities. Are you brave like Amelia Earhart? Funny like Lucille Ball? Compassionate like Abraham

The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland (Goodare Julian)(Pevná vazba)

This book is a collection of chapters on supernatural belief and practice in Scotland between 1500 and 1800. It deals with elite culture - from political prophecy to astrology, theology and poetic visions. And it deals with popular culture - from trances and visionary encounters with ghosts and

Places of Poetry - Mapping the Nation in Verse(Pevná vazba)

We are delighted to present the best poems from the nationwide Places of Poetry project, selected from over 7,500 entries Poetry lives in the veins of Britain, its farms and moors, its motorways and waterways, highlands and beaches. This anthology brings together time-honoured classics with some of

Of Land, Bones, and Money: Toward a South African Ecopoetics (McGiffin Emily)(Pevná vazba)

The South African literature of iimbongi, the oral poets of the amaXhosa people, has long shaped understandings of landscape and history and offered a forum for grappling with change. Of Land, Bones, and Money examines the shifting role of these poets in South African society and the ways in which

Articulating Bodies: The Narrative Form of Disability and Illness in Victorian Fiction (Hingston Kylee-Anne)(Pevná vazba)

Articulating Bodies investigates the contemporaneous developments of Victorian fiction and disability's medicalization by focusing on the intersection between narrative form and body. The book examines texts from across the century, from Frederic Shoberl's 1833 English translation of Victor Hugo's

Sound of an Iceberg - New Writing Scotland 37(Paperback / softback)

New Writing Scotland is the principal forum for poetry and short fiction in Scotland today. Every year it publishes the very best from both emerging and established writers, and lists many of the leading literary lights of Scotland among its past (and present)

Songs of Gaelic Scotland (Gillies Anne Lorne)(Pevná vazba)

Gaelic Scotland is one of the world's great treasure-houses of song. In this anthology, Anne Lorne Gillies has gathered together music and lyrics from all over the Gaelic-speaking Highlands and Islands - an extraordinary tradition that stretches in an unbroken line from the bardic effusions of

Lady Business: A Celebration of Lesbian Poetry (Borland Bryan)(Paperback)

Poetry. LGBT Studies. It's our Sapphic sisters turn to shine In the spirit of the Library Journal-honored ASSARACUS comes LADY BUSINESS: A CELEBRATION OF LESBIAN POETRY, featuring some of the most talented and diverse voices from established and emerging female poets, including Sally Bellerose,

My People (Oodgeroo)(Paperback)

Immerse yourself in the poetry of one of Australia's foremost Indigenous artists My People is a compilation of the poetry of Oodgeroo, of the tribe Noonuccal, Custodian of the land Minjerribah. This collection of captivating poetry detailing the struggle of Australia's Indigenous peoples is more

Great Mountain Crags of Scotland - A Celebration of Scottish Mountaineering (Robertson Guy)(Pevná vazba)

The Great Mountain Crags of Scotland is a celebration of climbing in Scotland's wild places, compiled by Guy Robertson and Adrian Crofton. Featuring contributions from Scottish mountaineering's great writers and climbers, and beautifully illustrated with stunning photography, it delves deep into

Poetry Speaks to Children [With CD] (Paschen Elise)(Pevná vazba)

New York Times Bestseller!In the tradition of Poetry Speaks, the anthology named a Best Book of 2002 by School Library Journal, and praised by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer as a volume to delight longtime lovers of poetry and to spark new love for poetry, especially among the young, Sourcebooks

Tir a'Mhurain - The Outer Hebrides of Scotland (Strand Paul)(Pevná vazba)

Classic book of black-and-white photographs in the Outer

Scotland to the World - Treasures from the National Museum of Scotland(Pevná vazba)

Showcases over a hundred treasures from the collections of the National Museum of

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Blank Journal (Kinney Jeff)(Pevná vazba)

'This is a JOURNAL, not a diary.' Based on the first book in the #1 bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series is The Wimpy Kid Blank Journal--224 lined pages with spot art by Jeff Kinney throughout. Now you can tell your own story. So what are you waiting for? Also Available: The Wimpy Kid 2019

Invectives (Petrarca Francesco)(Pevná vazba)

Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive ancient Roman language and literature. Just as Petrarch's Latin epic Africa imitated Virgil and his compendium On Illustrious Men was inspired by Livy, so

A Sociolinguistic History of Scotland (Millar Robert McColl)(Pevná vazba)

Robert McColl Millar examines how language has been used in Scotland since the earliest times. While primarily focusing on the histories of the speakers of Scots and Gaelic, and their competition with the encroaching use of (Scottish) Standard English, he also traces the decline and eventual