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Winslow Homer's images of Blacks: the Civil War and ...

Winslow Homer's images of Blacks: the Civil War and ...

Peter H. Wood

'In the ways in which they locate Homer's images as moments in a continuing argument about the meaning of Afro-American experience in two decades, Wood and Dalton's collaborative essay is a major methodological breakthrough and a model for ...
Barbara Winslow: Rebel

Barbara Winslow: Rebel

Elizabeth Ellis

Barbara Barba — Barbara Winslow or I'm a Dutchman! Your health, Mistress Barbara Winslow. Ha, ha! I knew I'd remember it soon. We toasted you after the trial, before I rode back to quarters. Lydia Philbeg, forsooth ! Ha, ha ! madame, I' ve ...
Chapman's Homer: The Odyssey

Chapman's Homer: The Odyssey

Homer

George Chapman's translations of Homer are among the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and poet in the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer.
The Cambridge companion to Homer

The Cambridge companion to Homer

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Chapters on Homer in English translation and Homer in the history of ideas round out the collection.
Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar

Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar

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'"Iliad-no sakusha-da, Homer-ga. Iliad-GEN author-cop Homer-NOM '[It] is the author of the Iliad, Homer.' 0 a. *Iliad-wa, sakusha-da, Homer-ga. Iliad-TOP author-cop Homer-NOM 'As for the Iliad, [it] is the author, Homer.' b. Homer-ga ...
Homer: Everyman's Poetry

Homer: Everyman's Poetry

Author Homer

Little is known about the poet Homer but he is thought to have composed the Iliad in the second half of the eight century BC and according to tradition lived on the island of Chios in the east Aegean.
The Palimpsest

The Palimpsest

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VOLUME 60 NUMBER 3 MAY/JUNE 1979 Charles Phillips, Editor CONTENTS Furlough by James Patrick Morgans 66 End of Innocence by Sharon Ham 76 Cover: Winslow Homer's painting of a lone, young Union soldier (courtesy ...
COLLOQUIUM RAURICUM 2:

COLLOQUIUM RAURICUM 2:

Joachim Latacz

Inhaltsverzeichnis Homer und die archäologische Forschung Homer und die althistorische Forschung Homer und die Sprachwissenschaft Mythenforschung und Religionswissenschaft im Zusammenhang mit Homer Biographische Forschung zu Homer Die ...
Homer: The Resonance of Epic

Homer: The Resonance of Epic

Barbara Graziosi

The Resonance of Epic Barbara Graziosi, Johannes Haubold. the name 'Homer' spoke of beautiful poetry, and that the Iliad and the Odyssey were eventually singled out as the best poems. The rules which dictated that 'Homer and Homer ...
American Impressionism & Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from ...

American Impressionism & Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from ...

Helene Barbara Weinberg

This richly illustrated volume presents works by some of America's foremost artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, William Merritt ...
Winslow

Winslow

Ann-Mary J. Lutzick

In 1880, the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad laid out the Winslow townsite along its new transcontinental line through northeastern Arizona Territory because the nearby Little Colorado River supplied a vital water source.
Homer's Text and Language

Homer's Text and Language

Gregory Nagy

In Homeric studies, an ongoing debate centers on different ways to establish the texts of Homer and the different ways to appreciate the poetry created in the language of Homer.
Ulysses Homer; Or, A Discovery of the True Author of the ...

Ulysses Homer; Or, A Discovery of the True Author of the ...

Jean-Baptiste Lechevalier

Those on the contrary who have maintained that Homer did not exist till many ages after the taking of Troy, being ... are necessarily obliged to suppose that the author of the Iliad, whosoever he may have been, Homer, Ulysses, or any one else, ...
Diary of Anna Green Winslow: A Boston School Girl of 1771

Diary of Anna Green Winslow: A Boston School Girl of 1771

Anna Green Winslow

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Uncle Tom's Cabin as Visual Culture

Uncle Tom's Cabin as Visual Culture

Jo-Ann Morgan

"Examines the artwork of Hammatt Billings, George Cruikshank, Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Thomas Satterwhite Noble to show how, as Uncle Tom's Cabin gained popularity, visual strategies were used to coax the ...
The Argonauts of California

The Argonauts of California

Charles Warren Haskins

H Hunter, John Williams, C Robbins, W Bemis, A K Winslow, Otis Hammond, C N Smedley. ... Dec, 31, 1848, arrived in San Francisco June 23, 1849: Winslow Hall , Able] W Shepfird, Jas R F oster, Lucius B Sanborn, Henry W Severance.
Homer Travestie: being a new translation of the four first ...

Homer Travestie: being a new translation of the four first ...

Homer

Homer, Thomas Bridges, COTTON (Junior, pseud. [i.e. Thomas Bridges.]) ... that material article, we. an author to stand to his Word in any thing in money matters - , I know it isbetter never 6 THE AUTHOR'S must understand, is a new one of 'my .. .
The Wounded Yankee (House of Winslow Book #10)

The Wounded Yankee (House of Winslow Book #10)

Gilbert Morris

Zack Winslow, The Wounded Yankee, had served the Union Army for exactly one year and been wounded twice, surviving the battles of Bull Run and Shiloh.
Sight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture

Sight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture

Martin A. Berger

"A compelling and challenging work."—Frances K. Pohl, author of Framing America "Berger is unafraid to tackle the major issues, and this book shows it."—Bruce Robertson, author of Marsden Hartley and Reckoning with Winslow Homer "Berger ...
Inventing Homer: The Early Reception of Epic

Inventing Homer: The Early Reception of Epic

Barbara Graziosi

closeness to the gods and his poverty, and yet modern scholars seem to take Homer's closeness to the gods for granted ... Latacz is one of the tew scholars who states these assumptions explicitly, In his entry on Homer for Der Neue Paid. y he ...
The National Magazine

The National Magazine

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v * Charles Winslow Hall was of old Puritan stock; one ancestor, John Hall, came from England with Governor Winthrop in 1630; another was Edward Winslow, first Governor of Plymouth. For five years he presided as trial justice at Winthrop, ...
The Mourner's Song: War and Remembrance from the Iliad to ...

The Mourner's Song: War and Remembrance from the Iliad to ...

James Tatum

Homer's poetry would give women much insight into the roles they could play for men, which, as Helen shows, were not always the roles that men thought they should play. 6. Latacz, Homer, 15–22 (“The New Relevance of Homer”). Latacz ...
The Odyssey of Homer: A New Verse Translation

The Odyssey of Homer: A New Verse Translation

Homer

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Homer

Homer

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Provides insight into two of Homer's epic poems along with a short history of the man and his life.
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988–2003

Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988–2003

Roy Strong

17 SEPTEMBER Winslow Hall We'd long ago fixed a date to go to lunch at Winslow Hall with Gill and Edward Tomkins. It was a very crosscountry journey but we had always had an affection for them, ever since those days in the Paris ...
Homer

Homer

Barry B. Powell

This concise book is a complete and contemporary introduction to Homer and his two master-works, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Homer

Homer

R. B. Rutherford

A concise yet detailed account of the state of criticism of the two great epics ascribed to Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Vacant Possession

Vacant Possession

Keith Shaw

The judge distinguished between the similar caseof Re Winslow Hall Estates with respect to thetaking of possession: On thatpart ofthe caseI refer tothe decision of Bennett J. inRe Winslow Hall Estates, the facts ofwhich were notvery dissimilar ...
Cartagena; Or, The Lost Brigade

Cartagena; Or, The Lost Brigade

Charles Winslow Hall,

Charles Winslow Hall,. Charles Winslow Hall Cartagena or The Lost Brigade A Story of Heroism in. Cartagena or The Lost Brigade - A Story of Heroism in the British War with Spain, 1740–1742. Front Cover.

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