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Decades Never Start on Time: A Richard Roud Anthology

Decades Never Start on Time: A Richard Roud Anthology

Richard Roud

A Richard Roud Anthology Richard Roud Michael Temple, Karen Smolens ... 1954–5 • New York University Reading Institute, Instructor in English and remedial reading. 1956–8 • Instructor in English, University of Maryland Overseas Division, ...
Richard Prince: American English

Richard Prince: American English

Richard Prince

In "American English," artist and book collector Richard Prince contrasts his collection of American first edition books with their British counterparts, photographing the pairings in individual staged environments.
Terrorism: How to Respond

Terrorism: How to Respond

Richard English

Drawing on a wide range of case studies, Richard English argues that we have as yet failed to understand terrorism properly, and that this is at the root of our disastrous failure to respond effectively to terrorism in the post-9/11 crisis.
New Historicism and Renaissance Drama

New Historicism and Renaissance Drama

Richard Wilson

Richard Wilson, University of Louisville Kentucky Richard Wilson, Humanities Distinguished Professor of English Richard Dutton, Richard Dutton. First published 1992 by Longman Group Limited Published 2013 by Routledge 2 Park Square, ...
Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series

Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series

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115, no.l [words by] Reil, English version by Richard Capell. Das Lied im GrQnen . 2/- Appl. author: Augener, ltd., employer for hire of Richard Capell. © on English translation; Augener, ltd., London; 4Jun52; EFO-14412. The passing bell.
Catalog of Copyright Entries

Catalog of Copyright Entries

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Wer slch der Elnsamkelt erglbt. w Ooethe, English version by Richard Capell, m Schubert. Op. 12, no.l. Song with piano acc. London. (Franz Schubert songs) Appl. author: Augener, Ltd., employer for hire of Richard Capell. O on English ...
Narrating the Visual in Shakespeare

Narrating the Visual in Shakespeare

Richard Meek

aEkphrasis. in The Rape of Lucrece and The Winter's Tale«, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, 46/2 (Spring 2006). A shorter version of Chapter 4 appeared in Richard Meek, Jane Rickard and Richard Wilson ...
Irish English as Represented in Film

Irish English as Represented in Film

Shane Walshe

(1982). "The English Language in Ireland". In: Richard W. Bailey and Manfred Gorlach, eds. English as a World Language. Cambridge: 84-133. Bartley, James O. (1942). "The Development of a Stock Character: The Stage Irishman to 1 800".
Poems & Songs

Poems & Songs

Richard Middleton

"The carol-boy of English poetry . . . our Verlaine." -- The English Review.
Poems & Songs

Poems & Songs

Richard Middleton

"The carol-boy of English poetry . . . our Verlaine." -- The English Review.
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court ...

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court ...

Tennessee. Supreme Court

J. E. R. RAY, J. GEO. W. WINCHESTER for Plaintiffs. BELCHER & BELCHER for Defendants. NICHOLSON, C. J., delivered the opinion of the Court. Richard C. Wilkins, having been appointed a trustee in a deed of trust executed in 1858, by M. J. English and W. English, on a lot in ... W. English is dead, without children, and M. J. English has intermarried with F. M. Moore, who, together with Wilkins, are [53] defendants, the first two by service of pro-. cess and the last by publication.
F in English

F in English

Richard Benson

If your vocabulary is more Bart Simpson than the Bard, then take comfort in this cracking, all-new, fun-size dose of F in Exams, containing some of the most spectacular howlers from school English exams.
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez

Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez

Richard Rodriguez

Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the ...
English in Transition: Corpus-based Studies in Linguistic ...

English in Transition: Corpus-based Studies in Linguistic ...

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Madox, Richard, The Diary of Richard Madox (MADOX) 1976 An Elizabethan in I 582: The Diary of Richard Madox, Fellow of All Souls. Ed. Elizabeth Story Donno. London: Hakluyt Society. Malory, Thomas, Morte Darthur (MALORY) 1954 The ...
Journeys: prose by children of the English-speaking world

Journeys: prose by children of the English-speaking world

Richard Lewis

Stories written by English-speaking children from around the globe.
Crazy English

Crazy English

Richard Lederer

In CRAZY ENGLISH, Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of our language, discovering the names for phobias you didn't know you could have, the longest words in our dictionaries, and the shortest sentence containing every letter ...
Richard Newton and English Caricature in the 1790s

Richard Newton and English Caricature in the 1790s

David S. Alexander

This book marks the rediscovery, in the bicentenary year of his death in 1798, of a master of the burlesque, the caricaturist Richard Newton, who was soon forgotten, in part because of the bawdy nature of many of his prints.
Speaking American: A History of English in the United States

Speaking American: A History of English in the United States

Richard W. Bailey

Investigates the history and continuing evolution of American English, from the 16th century to the present, to celebrate the endless variety and remarkable inventiveness that have always been at the heart of our language.
In Defence Of History

In Defence Of History

Richard J. Evans

In this volume, English historian Richard Evans offers a defence of the importance of his craft.
Lederer on Language: A Celebration of English, Good Grammar, ...

Lederer on Language: A Celebration of English, Good Grammar, ...

Richard Lederer

In this wide-ranging collection of essays, Richard Lederer offers readers more of the irrepressible wordplay and linguistic high jinks his fans can't get enough of, along with observations on a life in letters.
Richard III: A Critical Reader

Richard III: A Critical Reader

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dAniel cAdmAn Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most enduringly popular plays, both on stage and in the classroom. The appealingly amoral villain and the shrewd, manipulative schemes he initiates in order to gain the English crown have ...
Anglo-Saxonism and the Construction of Social Identity

Anglo-Saxonism and the Construction of Social Identity

Allen J. Frantzen

134. 13. Mary P. Richards, "The Manuscript Contexts of the Old English Laws: Tradition and Innovation," Studies in Earlier Old English Prose, ed. Paul E. ... Margaret Gibson, T. A. Heslop, and Richard W. Pfaff (London and University Park , Pa.
The arte of English poesie. [Ascr. to G. Puttenham] ed. by ...

The arte of English poesie. [Ascr. to G. Puttenham] ed. by ...

English poesy

Can George and Richard Puttenham be these ' neuewes' of Sir T. Elyot, for whom he wrote this book : and the children of Sir Thomas' 'only' entirely beloued syster Margaret, married to Puttenham ?] The following entry occurs in the Register of ...
Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature: The Country Poor in ...

Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature: The Country Poor in ...

Stephen Fender

Susan Currell, Richard Follett, Clive Webb and Richard Godden, colleagues in the old Sussex American Studies Department, along with the late Geoff Hempstead and Marcus Wood in English, were enormously supportive with ideas for how ...
The Ohio Journal of Science

The Ohio Journal of Science

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OWEN, Richard. 1804-1892. Owen, R. The Life of Richard Owen. 2 vols., Murray, London, 1894. — The letters and journals of the great English 19th Century anatomist and vertebrate paleontologist, celebrated for his deductions from ...
Business English for It Men

Business English for It Men

James Robbins

Business English is English language especially related to international trade.[citation needed] It is a part of English for Specific Purposes and can be considered a specialism within English language learning and teaching; for example, ...
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance: Galen-Lyon

Encyclopedia of the Renaissance: Galen-Lyon

Paul F. Grendler

Alison Knowles Frazier HAKLUYT, RICHARD (1552?-1616), English geographer , propagandist for overseas enterprise, translator and compiler of voyage accounts. Richard Hakluyt was born in London and raised from an early age by his ...
Code-Switching in Early English

Code-Switching in Early English

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In: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Carolyn Collette, Maryanne Kowaleski, Linne Mooney, Ad Putter and David Trotter (eds.), 44–54. Ingham, Richard (ed.) 2010 The Anglo-Norman Language and its Contexts. Woodbridge: Boydell. Ingham, Richard ...

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