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Much of The Grove of the Eumenides forms the background study for Glaysher's epic poem, The Parliament of Poets, which he discusses in a new 2015 Preface. Twenty years in the making, The Grove of the Eumenides invokes a global vision beyond the prevailing postmodern...

Volume 5 of my collected essays includes 17 new essays: Space as Infinity II: An Essay (Double Space) divides space into finite and infinite space to solve problems in physics. Dirigiplane: An Essay offers a balloon/plane hybrid. Waterworks: An Essay proposes pumping flood runoff upstream into aquifers...

A fearless, wide-ranging book on the state of poetry and American literary culture by Tony Hoagland, the author of What Narcissism Means to Me Live American poetry is absent from our public schools. The teaching of poetry languishes, and that region of youthful neurological terrain capable...

Containing 40 essays and more than 20 fragments from before the time Treasure Island made Stevenson famous as a fiction writer, the collection demonstrates that essay writing was a deliberate choice of him. Robert Louis Stevenson, in full Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson, (born November 13, 1850,...

Rich in insights and inspiration, this anthology surveys the challenges and rewards of teaching. Contributions range from essays by renowned educators such as Pestalozzi, Froebel, Montessori, and Neill to the philosophical observations of Plato, Rousseau, Dewey, and Russell. Writings by Tolstoy, Emerson,...

P.K. Page is best known as one of Canada's finest poets, but over the course of her career she has also written a number of essays – meditations – on her life and work, on the nature of art and the imagination, and on Canadian works of literature, painting, and film that have had special significance...

The vital words of Alexander Hamilton, including essays, private correspondence, and public statements Alexander Hamilton is best known as the United States’ first Secretary of the Treasury and the author of the majority of The Federalist Papers, a series of essays that outlined the basic...

Thoughtful, poignant, and hilarious personal essays collected by the editors of Creative Nonfiction explore the meanings of Italian-American identity. In the twenty-one nonfiction narratives collected in Our Roots Are Deep with Passion, established and emerging writers with family ties to Italy...

This is a representative collection of the writings of a neglected Canadian author, William Wilfred Campbell (1858-1918). Among the 112 poems in William Wilfred Campbell: Selected Poetry and Essays are the familiar “Indian Summer” and “How One Winter Came in the Lake Region,” along...

'De rode draad in deze essays is mijn wens met een persoonlijke blik te kijken naar verschillende kwesties die ons land diep verdelen, waarbij enkele een zaak van leven of dood lijken te zijn. Dit is voor mij een poging gehoord te worden door mensen die een andere mening hebben dan ik.' Aldus Amos...

Welcome to the second volume of Nocturnal Musings. As with the first volume of Nocturnal Musings, you’ll discover a variety of ponderings and essays. This time you won’t find any short stories, though.In this version, I added shorter meditations about topics you might wonder about as well....

Parliamentary historian, chronicler of Titanic’s sinking and Churchill’s ascent, annotator of Kipling and of Kenneth Grahame: GMW Wemyss is, admittedly, these, but much more is he the West Country’s beloved essayist, the wry, fond observer of rural humour, chalk-streams, proper gardens, and...

Sparkling essays on a variety of subjects--literature, art, popular culture, autobiography--by a renowned young American novelist. In her brilliant and daring novels The Blindfold and The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, Siri Hustvedt has won critical acclaim and a rapidly expanding international...

In 1942, Bill Manbo (1908-1992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming. While there, Manbo documented both the bleakness and beauty of his surroundings, using Kodachrome film, a technology then just seven years old,...