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Literary Names: Personal Names in English Literature

Literary Names: Personal Names in English Literature

Alastair Fowler

In this rich and learned book, Alastair Fowler explores the use of names in literature of all periods - primarily English but also Latin, Greek, French, and Italian - casting an unusual and rewarding light on the work of literature itself.
Cullman County, Alabama Cemeteries, Volume 2

Cullman County, Alabama Cemeteries, Volume 2

Robin Sterling

... 26 Aug 2000 Ford, Norma Jean, 7 Dec 1931 - 12 Dec 1931 Fowler, Alton D., 9 Oct 1916 - 8 Mar 1960; picture Fowler, ... SS Robert R. Fowler Fowler, Richard, 2 Sep 1913 - 5 Mar 1998; SS Morelle Fowler Fowler, Robert T., 22 Feb 1884 - 8 ...
Renaissance Realism: Narrative Images in Literature and Art

Renaissance Realism: Narrative Images in Literature and Art

Alastair Fowler

This book questions the assumption of a single realism, the continuous realism of novels.
Time's Purpled Masquers: Stars and the Afterlife in ...

Time's Purpled Masquers: Stars and the Afterlife in ...

Alastair Fowler

Although the stars were important astrologically, this is at best a partial explanation for the popularity of such imagery, and the impact of astronomical discoveries(particularly their implications for stellification, or translation to the ...
How to write

How to write

Alastair Fowler

The book also offers a wealth of invaluable practical considerations, including when and where to write, when to printout and when to edit onscreen, what type of pen works well for revisions, and the hazards of the paperclip.
Triumphal Forms: Structural Patterns in Elizabethan Poetry

Triumphal Forms: Structural Patterns in Elizabethan Poetry

Alastair Fowler

A demonstration of the persistence of numerology, a characteristic of literature in the Middle Ages, in Elizabethan poetry.
The Mind of the Book: Pictorial Title-Pages

The Mind of the Book: Pictorial Title-Pages

Alastair Fowler

H. R. Fairclough, missing the point, translates: 'Yet to have won favour with the foremost men is not the lowest glory'; Gerard Kilroy, more convincingly, has: 'The greatest praise does not come from having pleased princes.'5 The verse ...
Milton: Paradise Lost

Milton: Paradise Lost

Alastair Fowler

Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the great works of literature, of any time and in any language. Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition it is a work epic both in scale and, notoriously, in ambition.
Poetry

Poetry

John Strachan

... of Renaissance verse, including The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, edited by Alastair Fowler (1991), and The Penguin Book ofRenaissance Verse: 1509—1659, edited by H.Woudhuysen and David Norbrook (2005).
Paradise Lost, 1668-1968: Three Centuries of Commentary

Paradise Lost, 1668-1968: Three Centuries of Commentary

Steven Edward Jablonski

It includes the best commentary from Annotations like Patrick Hume's (1695), to the variorum editions of Newton (1749) and Todd (1801-42), and the modern professional editions culminating in Alastair Fowler's (1968).
CLOUD SWALLOWER

CLOUD SWALLOWER

David Fowler

David Fowler. DAVID FOWLER CLOUD SWALLOWER David Fowler Copyright © 2007 by David Fowler. Front Cover.
Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost

John Milton

John Milton Alastair Fowler. Milton's Para. FOUNDING EDITOR: F. W. BATES0N GENERAL EDITORS: JOHN BARNARD PAUL HAMMOND of literature, of any time and in any language Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition, it is a work ...
Federal Programs Affecting Children

Federal Programs Affecting Children

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... (Jan Fowler)-------------------------------- 83 Adoption Opportunities (Jan Fowler)---- ------------------------ 85 Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Programs (Jan Fowler) --__ 87 Pool of Defense Family Advocacy Program (Matthew MacCODY)  ...
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register,: ...

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register,: ...

New England Historic Genealogical Society

John Fowler . . . 1538, on whose soule . . . Here lieth Alis Fowler the wyf of Robert Fowler esquire, who died . . . . 1540 Behold ... one-fifth of all the ministers in the Presbyterian and Congregational churches in the land are of ministerial descent.
Fowlers and kindred families of Meigs & Mason counties

Fowlers and kindred families of Meigs & Mason counties

Clara Hortense Fowler Howell (1898-)

Addie Fowler was a dau. of Bennett & Cynthia Fowler. All that is known is she married Apr. 22, 1886 George VanMatre. Both are dec'd, but where buried is unknown (Ohio or Indiana). They had two daughters Hazel, thought to be in Huntington ...
Maine Biographies

Maine Biographies

Harrie B. Coe

CHARLES MURRAY FOWLER— As Trial Justice of the Fort Fairfield district, Charles Murray Fowler has performed a valued ... Both Mr. Fowler and his wife are members of the Congregational church. JUDGE ROBERT M. LAWLIS, eminent attorney of Houlton, and justice of the Municipal Court of that city, was born in this ...
Roy Lichtenstein (Penguin Special): How Modern Art Was Saved ...

Roy Lichtenstein (Penguin Special): How Modern Art Was Saved ...

Alastair Sooke

What do his paintings really tell us? And what is his legacy? This book, by art critic and broadcaster Alastair Sooke, is a perfect introduction to the artist and his work.
Managing the Brief For Better Design

Managing the Brief For Better Design

Alastair Blyth

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Blyth, Alastair, 1958- Managing the brief for better design / Alastair Blyth ...
Alastair Cook: Starting Out - My Story So Far

Alastair Cook: Starting Out - My Story So Far

Alastair Cook

Graham Gooch was head coach, leading some great players and big personalities, including Andy Flower and Ronnie Irani. It meant a lot to me to open the batting for Essex with Will Jefferson, with whom I had spent so much time in our ...
Henri Matisse: A Second Life

Henri Matisse: A Second Life

Alastair Sooke

Their medium? Coloured paper and scissors. This book, by art critic and broadcaster Alastair Sooke, focuses on Matisse's extraordinary final decade, which he called 'a second life', after he had returned from the grave.
The Copy of a Letter [signed: Robert Fowler] Sent to Matthew ...

The Copy of a Letter [signed: Robert Fowler] Sent to Matthew ...

Robert FOWLER (Member of a Congregational Church.)

Robert FOWLER (Member of a Congregational Church.), William CUDWORTH ( Minister of Grey Eagle Street Chapel.), Matthew HENDERSON (a Servant.) T[ 1 1 ] apd fhcw the holes in his hands and his fide, and will fay, fee here my father, ...
The Golden Age: Nostalgia in Word and Image

The Golden Age: Nostalgia in Word and Image

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In Alastair Bellany's words, 'the political elite [. ... taken by 2 Alastair Bellany, The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern Englandࣟ: News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603-1666 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 86.
Persian Kingship and Architecture: Strategies of Power in ...

Persian Kingship and Architecture: Strategies of Power in ...

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The Great Palace of the Byzantine Emperors, second report (Edinburgh, 1958), p. 580 and passim. See: Alastair Northedge, 'Survey of the terrace area at Amman citadel', Levantxii (1980), pp. 150 ff.; Alastair Northedge, 'The Qasr of Amman', ...
Upgrading School Buildings in Mexico with Social ...

Upgrading School Buildings in Mexico with Social ...

Blyth Alastair

Teachers noted that they feel safer after the refurbishment. The roofing has an 8- year warranty. Photo 3: example of outdoor education spaces. © Alastair Blyth School Esperanza Villasana Heredia José Maria Pino Suarez, Alvaro Obregon,.
A Season in Hell: My 130 Days in the Sahara with Al Qaeda

A Season in Hell: My 130 Days in the Sahara with Al Qaeda

Robert R. Fowler

For decades, Robert R. Fowler was a dominant force in Canadian foreign affairs.
Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage

Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage

Henry Watson Fowler

Based on the evidence and research of the Oxford Dictionaries Programme, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative guide to usage available.
Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage

Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage

R. E. Allen

This invaluable reference work offers the best and most sought-after advice on English grammar based on Henry Fowler's original, which is still a classic text after nearly 80 years.

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