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Seeing Stars

Seeing Stars

Simon Armitage

Simon Armitage's new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales.
The Death of King Arthur

The Death of King Arthur

Simon Armitage

Simon Armitage is already the master of this alliterative music, as his earlier version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2006) so resourcefully and exuberantly showed.
The Poetry of Birds

The Poetry of Birds

Simon Armitage

In this wonderful anthology poet Simon Armitage and birdwatching enthusiast Tim Dee gather together the best of the past and the present, including those famous poems but also many overlooked gems.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Fixed Format Layout

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Fixed Format Layout

Simon Armitage

. . This story, first told in the 1400s, is one of the most enthralling, dramatic and beloved poems in the English tradition. Now, in Simon Armitage, the poem has found its perfect modern translator.
The Dead Sea Poems

The Dead Sea Poems

Simon Armitage

Simon Armitage is the most widely and unreservedly praised poet of his generation. The Dead Sea Poems, his fourth collection, culminates in a long visionary poem, 'Five Eleven Ninety Nine'.
Kid

Kid

Simon Armitage

Kid gives us one of the liveliest poetic voices to have emerged in the last ten years.
George Thomas: Virginian for the Union

George Thomas: Virginian for the Union

Christopher J. Einolf

George Thomas to John Thomas, 25 January 1841 ,Thomas Papers,VHS. 25. Thomas to Thomas, 25 January 1841. 26. George Thomas to C. P. Kingsbury, 25 July 1841.This letter is no longer extant, but is printed in Coppee, Thomas, 7—9.
The Not Dead

The Not Dead

Simon Armitage

'The Not Dead' is a short collection of poems originally aired on a Channel 4 documentary film of the same name, shown in the winter of 2007.
Book of Matches

Book of Matches

Simon Armitage

' Independent on Sunday 'The crafted sincerity of this potent, lyrical collection, in which an absolutely contemporary voice concisely expresses common concerns, is everything that poetry should be.
Alun Hoddinott: A Source Book

Alun Hoddinott: A Source Book

Professor Stewart R Craggs

A Source Book Professor Stewart R Craggs. Thomas, Dylan, 159 Thomas, Gwion , 136, 190 Thomas, Gwn, 72 Thomas, Gwyn, 179, 185, 187, 197 Thomas, Hugh, 174 Thomas, Kelvin, 118, 131 Thomas, Mansel, 41, 44, 84 Thomas, Martin, 170 ...
Eclipse

Eclipse

Simon Armitage

In the first of these two plays, a group of English teenagers investigates the mysterious disappearance of a girl during an eclipse and, in the second, conflicts develop among friends as they face their sexuality.
Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London

Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London

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Ariel

Ariel

Sylvia Plath

' A. Alvarez in the Observer This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series with five other cherished poets, including Wendy Cope, Don Paterson, Philip Larkin, Simon Armitage and Alice Oswald.
The Unaccompanied

The Unaccompanied

Simon Armitage

The Unaccompanied documents a world on the brink, a world of unreliable seasons and unstable coordinates, where Odysseus stalks the aisles of cut-price supermarkets in search of direction, where the star of Bethlehem rises over industrial ...
The Dial

The Dial

Francis Fisher Browne

Small, Maynard & Co. $1.25. The House of Strange Secrets : A Detective Story. By A. Eric Bayly. 12mo,pp.262. E. P. Dutton
A Thomas More source book

A Thomas More source book

Sir Thomas More (Saint)

"A Thomas More Sourcebook" brings together classic texts by and about Thomas More to reflect his views on education, politics, church-state relations, love, and friendship.
Virilio and Visual Culture

Virilio and Visual Culture

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John Armitage, Ryan Bishop. random yet increasingly submissive nature of our mediated everyday lives. 'In early 2010, in France', for example, Virilio recently informed Bernard Richard, 'the Milgram experiment of 1963 was repeated to reveal ...
Looking Into Providences: Designs and Trials in Paradise Lost

Looking Into Providences: Designs and Trials in Paradise Lost

Raymond Waddington

96 Armitage, 'The Cromwellian Protectorate and the Languages of Empire,' 538; on the Western Design, see 536—46; and Robert Fallon, 'Cromwell, Milton, and the Western Design.' 97 For the textual history, see Shawcross, appendix, ...
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 8: ...

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 8: ...

Thomas Jefferson

1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815 Thomas Jefferson J. Jefferson Looney ... OxfordshireOX20 1TW All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data Jefferson, Thomas, 1743–1826 The papers of Thomas Jefferson .
Children’s Health Issues in Historical Perspective

Children’s Health Issues in Historical Perspective

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Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, Veronica Strong-Boag. 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 Matthew's Legacy (Victoria: Queen's Printer, 1995). See also Andrew Armitage, “Lost Vision: Children and the Ministry for Children and Families,” BC Studies 118 (Summer ...
Love in Western Film and Television: Lonely Hearts and Happy ...

Love in Western Film and Television: Lonely Hearts and Happy ...

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BIBLIOGRAPHY. Armitage, Susan, andElizabeth Jameson. TheWoman's West. Norman: Uof OklahomaP, 1987. Butler, AnneM. “Prostitution.” In Encyclopedia of Women in the American West. Ed. Gordon Morris Bakken and Brenda Farrington.
Aeronautics

Aeronautics

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William Geoffrey Moore. George Hancock Reid. Thomas Yaughan Lister. Thomas Francis Netterville Gerrard. Oswald Noel Walmesley. James Edward Baker Maclean. John Daniel Newberry. Thomas Hinshelwood. t rank Thomas Digby.
Thomas' Milkshake Muddle (Thomas & Friends)

Thomas' Milkshake Muddle (Thomas & Friends)

Rev. W. Awdry

These three stories from the latest release are filled with the same gentle humor and familiar friends as all of the very popular Thomas Picturebacks.First, Thomas is taking milk to the dairy to make ice cream for a big party, and if he ...
The Salvage

The Salvage

Dorothy Swaine Thomas Thomas

Dorothy Swaine Thomas Thomas, Charles Kikuchi, James Minoru Sakoda. procedure was not correct, so it had to be stopped. This action was instigated by Dr. [X], an Issei who had resided in this country for many years. He claimed that it was ...
Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, ...

Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, ...

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Cynthia E. Orozco, “Alice Dickerson Montemayor: Feminism and Mexican American Politics in the 1930s,” in Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the American Women's West, ed. Elizabeth Jameson and Susan Armitage ( Norman: ...
Abeloff's Clinical Oncology Review

Abeloff's Clinical Oncology Review

John E. Niederhuber

John E. Niederhuber, James O. Armitage, James H Doroshow, Michael B. Kastan , Joel E. Tepper ... JohnE. Niederhuber, MD To my wife, Nancy, for her love and support over the last four and ahalf decades,andto ourfourchildren and ten ...

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