The Fredoniad: Or, Independence Preserved

The Fredoniad: Or, Independence Preserved PDF Author: Richard Emmons
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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The Fredoniad: Or, Independence Preserved

The Fredoniad: Or, Independence Preserved PDF Author: Richard Emmons
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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The Fredoniad

The Fredoniad PDF Author: Richard Emmons
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Brill’s Companion to Classics in the Early Americas

Brill’s Companion to Classics in the Early Americas PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900446865X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 449

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Brill’s Companion to Classics in the Early Americas opens a window onto classical receptions across the Hispanophone, Lusophone, Francophone and Anglophone Americas during the early modern period, examining classical reception as a phenomenon in transhemispheric perspective for the first

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 19

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 19 PDF Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691243271
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 864

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A definitive new volume of the retirement papers of Thomas Jefferson This volume’s 601 documents show Jefferson dealing with various challenges. He is injured in a fall at Monticello, and his arm is still in a sling months later when he narrowly escapes drowning during a solitary horseback ride. Jefferson obtains temporary financial relief by transferring a $20,000 debt from the Bank of the United States to the College of William and Mary. Aided by a review of expenditures by the University of Virginia that uncovers no serious discrepancies, Jefferson and the Board of Visitors obtain a further $60,000 loan that permits construction to begin on the Rotunda. Jefferson drafts but apparently does not send John Adams a revealing letter on religion. He exchanges long letters discussing the Supreme Court with Justice William Johnson, and he writes to friends about France’s 1823 invasion of Spain. Jefferson also helps prepare a list of recommended books for the Albemarle Library Society. In November 1822, Jefferson’s grandson Francis Eppes marries Mary Elizabeth Randolph. He gives the newlyweds his mansion at Poplar Forest and visits it for the last time the following May. In a letter to James Monroe, Jefferson writes and then cancels “my race is near it’s term, and not nearer, I assure you, than I wish.”

Calendar of the Correspondence of James Madison

Calendar of the Correspondence of James Madison PDF Author: James Madison
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 830

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The Western Monthly Review

The Western Monthly Review PDF Author: Timothy Flint
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Languages : en
Pages : 708

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Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier

Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier PDF Author: Frank H. Severance
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier" by Frank H. Severance. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Bulletin of the Bureau of Rolls and Library of the Department of State

Bulletin of the Bureau of Rolls and Library of the Department of State PDF Author: United States. Bureau of Rolls and Library
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 832

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The Stranger in America

The Stranger in America PDF Author: Francis Lieber
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Published Poems

Published Poems PDF Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810111128
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 961

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Although he surprised the world in 1866 with his first published book of poetry, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, Herman Melville had long been steeped in poetry. This new offering in the authoritative Northwestern-Newberry series, The Writings of Herman Melville, with a historical note by Hershel Parker, is testament to Melville the poet. Penultimate in the publication of the series, Published Poems follows the release of Melville’s verse epic, Clarel (1876), and with it, contains the entirety of the poems published during Melville’s lifetime: Battle-Pieces, as well as John Marr and Other Sailors, with Some Sea-Pieces (1888), and Timoleon Etc. (1891). Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War has long been recognized as a great contribution to the poetry of the Civil War, comparable only to Whitman’s Drum-Taps. Its idiosyncrasies, many of them grounded in British poetry, kept it from immediate popularity, but it was not the production of a novice. Melville had made himself over into a poet in the late 1850s and had tried to publish a previous collection of poetry—now lost—in 1860. John Marr and Other Sailors is a retrospective nautical book. Its portraits of sailors were influenced by Melville’s own experience of aging as well as by his long acquaintance with wasted mariners at the Sailors’ Snug Harbor on Staten Island, where his brother was governor. The book modulates into "Sea-Pieces," including the grisly "Maldive Shark" and "To Ned," a powerful reflection on how Melville’s personal adventures with the Typee islanders in 1842 had accrued rich historical significance over the decades. Thematically less unified, Timoleon Etc. contains poems with many European and exotic settings from ancient to modern times. The most famous are "After the Pleasure Party" and "The Age of the Antonines." Published in the last year of Melville’s life, some of the poems were first written many years earlier; for example, Melville copied "The Age of the Antonines" out for his brother-in-law in 1877, describing it as something found in a bundle of old papers. One whole section seems to have been almost entirely salvaged from the unpublished 1860 volume of poetry. As with the other volumes in the Northwestern-Newberry series, the aim of this edition of Published Poems is to present a text as close to the author’s intention as surviving evidence permits. To that end, the editorial appendix includes a historical note by Hershel Parker, the dean of Melville scholars, which gives a compelling, in-depth account of how one of America’s greatest writers grew into the vocation of a poet; an essay by G. Thomas Tanselle on the printing and publishing history of the works in Published Poems; a textual record that identifies the copy-texts for the present edition and explains the editorial policy; and substantial scholarly notes on individual poems.