Poetry Books by William Percy French
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published Date: 2011-02-17
Categories: History
A detailed, authoritative history of the Royal Navy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, first published between in the 1820s.
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Published Date: 1988-10
Categories: History
An overview plus useful facts give basic data on the country and getting there, but each region is described in detail by various individuals
Publisher: Curzon Sufi Series
Published Date: 1996
Categories: Social Science
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Published Date: 1984
Categories: Performing Arts
This first full length history of the Irish Theatre Company follows the theater from its inception in 1914, through the crisis of the Easter Rising, in which three of its founders were killed, to its demise in 1920, when the "Troubles" turned the streets of Dublin into a battlefield and its surviving founder, Edward Matryn, refused to make the concessions to middlebrow taste that might have guaranteed its survival.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published Date: 1998-07-16
Categories: History
The Battleground series is designed for both the battlefield visitor and the reader at home. For the former, this book is an invaluable guide and each site is described in detail. For everyone there are graphic descriptions of action, often through first-hand accounts, supported by illustrations, diagrams and maps.
Publisher: Olympic Marketing Corporation
Published Date: 1983
Categories: Reference
The Magan and Biddulph families of Ireland from pre-history to the presen. Includes the history of Ireland, particularly an analysis of this century.
Publisher: Collins Pr
Published Date: 2004
Categories: History
From the second half of the nineteenth century to the closing decades of the twentieth, these three generations of the Day family created a unique and unsurpassed photographic record of Cork city and its environs. The Day collection contains the earliest known photographs of the city of Cork, a city changed immeasurably since they were taken, and now published for the first time. History leaps from these pictures which capture city streetscapes and characters from the 1850s to the 1950s and record, in rich detail, historic events such as the departure of the Titanic in 1912, the last recorded photograph of the ill-fated liner. This selection is taken from several hundred glass plate slides.
Publisher: LSU Press
Published Date: 2006-10-01
Categories: History
Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in the best sense, William Alexander Percy in his lifetime (1885--1942) was brought face to face with the convulsions of a changing world. Lanterns on the Levee is his memorial to the South of his youth and young manhood. In describing life in the Mississippi Delta, Percy bridges the interval between the semifeudal South of the 1800s and the anxious South of the early 1940s. The rare qualities of this classic memoir lie not in what Will Percy did in his life -- although his life was exciting and varied -- but rather in the intimate, honest, and soul-probing record of how he brought himself to contemplate unflinchingly a new and unstable era. The 1973 introduction by Walker Percy -- Will's nephew and adopted son -- recalls the strong character and easy grace of "the most extraordinary man I have ever known."
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published Date: 2006
Categories: History
William Percy's Mahomet and His Heaven (1601) - roughly contemporary to Shakespeare's Othello - is the only known play of the early modern period to place the Prophet Mohammad on the stage. The play takes place in around the mosques of 'Mecha' and the action mirrors parts of the Qur'an, the Islamic holy text that was rarely available in England at the time.Matthew Dimmock presents here the play in its entirety, with a critical introduction which introduces some of the key themes of the play, and its textual and social context. A section of detailed explanatory scholarly notes follow the play, with a full translation of the short Latin sections and a reference to any political or literary parallels. This book should be required reading for historians and literary scholars dealing with notions of 'race' and 'religion' in early modern England.
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published Date: 1991
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
This classic dictionary answers questions such as these and explains the origins of over 16,000 names in current English use. It will be a source of fascination to everyone with an interest in names and their history.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published Date: 2010-06-15
Categories: Poetry
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats includes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion in his standard canon. Breathtaking in range, it encompasses the entire arc of his career, from luminous reworkings of ancient Irish myths and legends to passionate meditations on the demands and rewards of youth and old age, from exquisite, occasionally whimsical songs of love, nature, and art to somber and angry poems of life in a nation torn by war and uprising. In observing the development of rich and recurring images and themes over the course of his body of work, we can trace the quest of this century's greatest poet to unite intellect and artistry in a single magnificent vision. Revised and corrected, this edition includes Yeats's own notes on his poetry, complemented by explanatory notes from esteemed Yeats scholar Richard J. Finneran. The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats is the most comprehensive edition of one of the world's most beloved poets available in paperback.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published Date: 2008-06-30
Categories: Poetry
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats includes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion in his standard canon. Breathtaking in range, it encompasses the entire arc of his career, from luminous reworkings of ancient Irish myths and legends to passionate meditations on the demands and rewards of youth and old age, from exquisite, ocasionally whimsical songs of love, nature, and art to somber and angry poems of life in a nation torn by war and uprising. In observing the development of rich and recurring images and themes over the course of his body of work, we can trace the quest of this century's greatest poet to unite intellect and artistry in a single magnificent vision. Revised and corrected, this edition includes Yeats's own notes on his poetry, complemented by explanatory notes from esteemed Yeats scholar Richard J. Finneran. The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats is the most comprehensive edition of one of the world's most beloved poets available.
