A Green and Pagan Land
Title | A Green and Pagan Land PDF eBook |
Author | David Huckvale |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 2018-01-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1476670501 |
British literature often refers to pagan and classical themes through richly detailed landscapes that suggest more than a mere backdrop of physical features. The myth-inspired writings of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Algernon Blackwood, Aleister Crowley, Lord Dunsany and even Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows informed later British films and television dramas such as The Owl Service (1969-70), Blood on Satan's Claw (1971), The Wicker Man (1973), Excalibur (1981) and Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975). The author analyzes the evocative language and esthetics of landscapes in literature, film, television and music, and how "psycho-geography" is used to explore the influence of the past on the present.
A Green and Pagan Land
Title | A Green and Pagan Land PDF eBook |
Author | David Huckvale |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 2018-01-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1476629935 |
British literature often refers to pagan and classical themes through richly detailed landscapes that suggest more than a mere backdrop of physical features. The myth-inspired writings of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Algernon Blackwood, Aleister Crowley, Lord Dunsany and even Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows informed later British films and television dramas such as The Owl Service (1969-70), Blood on Satan's Claw (1971), The Wicker Man (1973), Excalibur (1981) and Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975). The author analyzes the evocative language and esthetics of landscapes in literature, film, television and music, and how "psycho-geography" is used to explore the influence of the past on the present.
The Pagan Land
Title | The Pagan Land PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Marriott |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 462 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780552120029 |
Pagans in the Promised Land
Title | Pagans in the Promised Land PDF eBook |
Author | Steven T. Newcomb |
Publisher | Fulcrum Publishing |
Total Pages | 220 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9781555916428 |
"An analysis of how religious bias shaped U.S. federal Indian law."--
Being Brought from Africa to America - The Best of Phillis Wheatley
Title | Being Brought from Africa to America - The Best of Phillis Wheatley PDF eBook |
Author | Phillis Wheatley |
Publisher | Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | 111 |
Release | 2020-07-31 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1528791029 |
Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784) was an American freed slave and poet who wrote the first book of poetry by an African-American. Sold into a slavery in West Africa at the age of around seven, she was taken to North America where she served the Wheatley family of Boston. Phillis was tutored in reading and writing by Mary, the Wheatleys' 18-year-old daughter, and was reading Latin and Greek classics from the age of twelve. Encouraged by the progressive Wheatleys who recognised her incredible literary talent, she wrote "To the University of Cambridge” when she was 14 and by 20 had found patronage in the form of Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon. Her works garnered acclaim in both England and the colonies and she became the first African American to make a living as a poet. This volume contains a collection of Wheatley's best poetry, including the titular poem “Being Brought from Africa to America”. Contents include: “Phillis Wheatley”, “Phillis Wheatley by Benjamin Brawley”, “To Maecenas”, “On Virtue”, “To the University of Cambridge”, “To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty”, “On Being Brought from Africa to America”, “On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell”, “On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield”, etc. Ragged Hand is proudly publishing this brand new collection of classic poetry with a specially-commissioned biography of the author.
Pagan Cornwall
Title | Pagan Cornwall PDF eBook |
Author | Cheryl Straffon |
Publisher | Conran Octopus |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Cornwall (England : County) |
ISBN | 9780951885925 |
The Poems of Phillis Wheatley
Title | The Poems of Phillis Wheatley PDF eBook |
Author | Phillis Wheatley |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | 98 |
Release | 2012-03-15 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0486115291 |
At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley was the first black American poet to publish a book. Her elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses of the beginnings of African-American literary traditions. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.