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1859 anonym: What is Poetry?

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in the current English literature. With the desire of assisting in promoting the interest in aesthetical studies, which has been on the increase in this country and England for th

1852 Fred W. Robertson: Two Lectures on the Influence of Poetry on the Working Classes

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to waste their time on literature, but to read the newspapers, which, he says, will give them all the education that is essential. Persons of this class seem to fancy that the all

1898 Calvin Thomas: Have We Still Need of Poetry?

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verse in English literature. Is there any less of manly seriousness in "In Memoriam" than in "Sartor Resartus"? And as for Tolstoï's objection to the clogging element of rhythm, i

Poets' Homes: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps [Ward] (1844 - 1911)

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So with English Literature and the Fine Arts. Of her Latin drilling Miss Phelps speaks also with sincere regard, fully appreciating his thoroughness, and the skill which made the

HONEY AND HEMLOCK

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the Friends of Russian Literature to attend the unveiling of the Pushkin bust in Moscow and give a speech. It was April-May of 1880. Dostoevsky was then writing his last book &

Chapter 25 of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire

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the elegant pursuits of literature; he was ignorant of the Greek language and the arts of rhetoric; but, as the mind of the orator was never disconcerted by timid perplexity, he w
Chapter 25 of 'The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire'- Jovian, Valentinian, Procopius, Gratian, Valentinian II

Male Circumcision: A Gender Perspective

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of masculinity. Medical literature tends to avoid or obscure this via its more reductionistic clinical approach. "For over a hundred years, it has been a surgery in search of
This article examines the history and continuing debate surrounding this surgery, and places it within the context of gender identity. The rise of the activist anti-circumcision mo

1821 Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Defence of Poetry

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of English literature is based upon the materials of Italian invention. But let us not be betrayed from a defence into a critical history of poetry and its influence on society. B

Notebooks

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(03 Oct 1994 12:01) Literature (03 Oct 1994 12:01) Armageddon (03 Oct 1994 12:00) Hannah Arendt (03 Oct 1994 12:00) Adorno (03 Oct 1994 12:00) Ancient metallurgy (03 Oct 1994 12:0

Thomas Carlyle's "Signs of the Times"

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Science, Art, Literature, all depend on machinery. No Newton, by silent meditation, now discovers the system of the world from the falling of an apple ; but some quite other than

Miller Microcomputer Services - Index Page

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Base (2005) , Unix As Literature , Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software (Richard Stallman. 2007), Interview with Linus Torvalds (2008), Interview with Linus Torvalds
Business and pleasure by Dick and Jill Miller of Miller Microcomputer Services.

Foreign fantasy: from decadence to catastrophe · FigCat

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Categories and tags Literature classics fantasy horror supernatural weird Introduction Skip to the list This is a follow-up to my previous list of non-Anglophone fantasy literatur
A list of 100 works of fantastic literature written in languages other than English from 1880 to 1939. Includes Kafka, de Maupassant, Schulz, Meyrink, Bulgakov, and Ewers.


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