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Alfred Henry Miles (1848-1929) was an English author, editor and composer. He compiled and edited a number of well known works for children at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. His works include: The Poets and Poetry of the Century (edited) (10 vols, 1891-97), Natural History in Anecdote (1895), Successful Recitations (edited) (1902), Fifty-Two Stories of the Brave and True For Boys (edited) (1902), Fifty-Two Stories of the Brave and True For Girls (edited) (1902), Fifty-Two Stories For Girls (edited) (1905), The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century (1906), Drawing Room Entertainments (1909), Ballads of Brave Women (1909), A Book of Brave Girls at Home and Abroad (1909), A Book of Brave Boys All the World Over (1909), The First Favourite Reciter (edited) (1909), Original Poems, Ballads, and Tales in Verse (1910), The Sweep of the Sword (1910), Twixt Life and Death on Sea and Shore (1910), Heroines of the Home and the World of Duty (1910), A Garland of Verse For Young People (1911), The Diner's-Out Vade Mecum (1912), Fifty-Two Stories of the Indian Mutiny (with Arthur John Pattle) (1915), A Book of Brave Boys (1915) and Heroes of History (1916).
This charming pocket handbook is a complete guide to the manners, customs and etiquette of the glamorous 1920s. Each chapter gives detailed instructions for a specific type of social event: what to expect, how to dress, suggested yarns for the raconteur and instructions for deft, witty self-expression. As lively and amusing as it is useful, this is a vintage reproduction of a Gatsby-era pocket guide to courtesy, style and elegance in the age that redefined them.
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As one of the formative periods in Canadian history, the late nineteenth century witnessed the birth of a nation, a people, and a literature. In this study of Canada's first 'school' of poets, D.M.R. Bentley combines archival work, including extensive research in periodicals and newspapers, with close readings of the work of Charles G.D. Roberts, Archibald Lampman, Bliss Carman, William Wilfred Campbell, Duncan Campbell Scott, and Frederick George Scott. Bentley chronicles the formation, reception, national and international successes, and eventual disintegration (after the 1895 'War Among the Poets') of the Confederation Group, whose poetry forever changed the perception and direction of Ca...
Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England from 1913 to 1930, is an important cultural link between the Victorian Age and the modern period. This bibliography updates and expands George McKay's A Bibliography of Robert Bridges (1933) and is the first gathering of reviews, articles, essays, books, and other scholarly notes about Bridges.
These volumes bring to a close the only comprehensive edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris (1834-1896), a protean figure who exerted a major influence as poet, craftsman, master printer, and designer. Volumes III and IV, taken together, give in detail the comments and observations that articulate his problematic political and artistic stands and equally problematic position within the aesthetic movement as it developed in the 1890s. Most eloquently voiced also are the complexities of his troubled marriage and his devotion to his epileptic daughter, Jenny, and his other daughter, May. But dominating all these themes, organizing and structuring them, are the Kelmscott Pres...
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