Second Empire
Title | Second Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Richie Hofmann |
Publisher | Alice James Books |
Total Pages | 100 |
Release | 2015-10-12 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1938584309 |
"The delicate arc of these poems intimates—rather than tells—a love story: celebration, fear of loss, storm, abandonment, an opening forth. Richie Hofmann disciplines his natural elegance into the sterner recognitions that matter: 'I am a little white omnivore,' the speaker of Second Empire discovers. Mastering directness and indirection, Hofmann's poems break through their own beauty."—Rosanna Warren This debut's spare, delicate poems explore ways we experience the afterlife of beauty while ornately examining lust, loss, and identity. Drawing upon traditions of amorous sonnets, these love-elegies desire an artistic and sexual connection to others—other times, other places—in order to understand aesthetic pleasures the speaker craves. Distant and formal, the poems feel both ancient and contemporary. Antique Book The sky was crazed with swallows. We walked in the frozen grass of your new city, I was gauzed with sleep. Trees shook down their gaudy nests. The ceramic pots were caparisoned with snow. I was jealous of the river, how the light broke it, of the skein of windows where we saw ourselves. Where we walked, the ice cracked like an antique book, opening and closing. The leaves beneath it were the marbled pages. Richie Hofmann is the winner of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the New Yorker, Poetry, the Kenyon Review, and Ploughshares. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University MFA program, he is currently a Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry at Emory University.
The Rise and Fall of the Second Empire, 1852-1871
Title | The Rise and Fall of the Second Empire, 1852-1871 PDF eBook |
Author | Alain Plessis |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521358569 |
The Second Empire lasted longer than any French regime since 1789, yet most historical accounts of the government of Napoleon III have been overshadowed by the knowledge of its disastrous and tragic end. As Professor Plessis shows in this detailed thermatic study, such an approach ignores the major social, economic, and political developments of a period that witnessed the gradual acceptance of univeral suffrage, the establishment of large-scale industrial capitalism, a massive improvement in communications, and the birth of impressionism in art.
The French Second Empire
Title | The French Second Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Price |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 521 |
Release | 2001-11-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1139430971 |
This is a most thoroughly researched book on Napoleon III's Second Empire. It makes a vital contribution to the quarter-century of French history following the 1848 revolution, which saw major developments in the 'modernization' of the French state and in its relationships with its citizens.
The Second Empire
Title | The Second Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Guedalla |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 502 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | France |
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The Second Empire
Title | The Second Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Octave Aubry |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 696 |
Release | 1940 |
Genre | History |
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The Second Empire
Title | The Second Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Guedalla |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | |
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Edouard Drouyn de Lhuys and the Foreign Policy of the Second Empire
Title | Edouard Drouyn de Lhuys and the Foreign Policy of the Second Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Warren F. Spencer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 860 |
Release | 1955 |
Genre | France |
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