April 20, 2008
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There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart,
The rifle grooves curling with flakes of rust.
A spider will make a silver string nest in the
darkest, warmest corner of it.
The trigger and the range-finder, they too will be rusty.
And no hands will polish the gun, and it will hang on the wall.
Forefingers and thumbs will point casually toward it.
It will be spoken among half-forgotten, whished-to-be-forgotten things.
They will tell the spider: Go on, you’re doing good work.
Carl Sandburg
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April 16, 2008
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Marcella
by
Mrs. Humphry Ward
Complete 2 Volume Original Clothbound Set Near Fine Condition The Macmillan Co. 1894
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April 16, 2008
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The Outline of Literature & Art
Edited by
John Drinkwater and Sir William Orpen,R.A.
With 1000 Illustrations and Fifty Colour Plates
Complete Set In 5 Volumes
1637 Total Pages
Complete Tight Contents
Published 1923/1924 by G.P. Putnam’s Sons/The Knickerbocker Press
Volume 1 Literature-Contents: The First Books In The World…Homer…The Story of the Bible……The English Bible As Literature..The Sacred Books of the East …Greek Myth and The Poets…Greece and Rome…The Middle Ages…The Renaissance
Volume 2 Literature-Contents: William Shakespeare 1564-1616…Shakespeare to Milton….John Milton….Marvell and Walton…John Bunyan..Pepys…Dryden…and the Restoration Dramatisis…French Literature In The Age of Louis XIV….Pope,Addison,Steele,Swift….The Rise of the Novel….The Eighteenth Century Poets…Dr. Johnson and His Circle….Edward Gibbon and Other Eighteenth Century Prose Writers…Robert Burns…The Literature That Made The Revolution…Goethe,Schiller,and Lessing…..Wordsworth,Coleridge,Southey,and Blake…Byron,Shelley,Keats
Volume 3 Literature-Contents: Scott, Dumas,and Hugo….Early Nineteenth Century Essayists…Victorian Poets…Dickens and Thackeray..The Victorian Novelists…The New England Writers,,,The Nineteenth Century Writers,,,The Great Victorians,,,Modern Writers, American and European ,,,Some Later Victorians,,,Dramatic Literature,,English Poetry Since Swinburne…Later Day Writers…..INDEX
Volume 4 Art-Contents: The Birth of Modern Painting…..The Invention of Oil Painting…The Wonder of the Renaissance…The Road to Venice…The Splendour of Venice…The Dawn of the Reformation…The Pride of Flanders…Sunshine and Shadow in Spain..How Art Rose With The Dutch Republic…Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century …The Rise of French Painting..English Masters of the Eighteenth Century….18th Century British Portraiture
Volume 5 Art-Contents: The French Revolution and Its Influence On Art….The Rise of Landscape Painting…Natural Landscape …The Pre Raphaelites..The Victorian Age…The Romantic Movement in France…The Modern Dutch School…The Influence of the Far East…Realism and Impressionism in France…Post Impressionism,Cubism,and Futurism…Art During The Great War…The Art of Today…INDEX and INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS
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April 14, 2008
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Lysistrata
Translated From The Greek Of
ARISTOPHANES
Illustrations By Norman Lindsay
Jack Lindsay Foreword
Published by Illustrated Editions Company circa/somewhere around the 1930’s
Historical play Led by the title character, Lysistrata, the story’s female characters barricade the public funds building and withhold sex from their husbands to end the Peloponnesian War and secure peace. In doing so, Lysistrata engages the support of women from Sparta, Boeotia, and Corinth. All of the other women are first against Lysistrata’s suggestion to withhold sex. Finally, they agree to swearing an oath of allegiance by drinking wine from a shield. This action is ironic and therefore comical, because Greek men believed women had no self-restraint, a lack displayed in their alleged fondness for wine as well as for sex.
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April 10, 2008
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I would rather have one small rose
From the garden of a friend
Than to have the choicest flowers
When my stay on Earth must end.
I would rather have one pleasant word
In kindness said to me
Than flattery when my heart is still
And my life on Earth has ceased to be.
I would rather have a loving smile
From friends I know are true
Than tears shed round my casket
When this world I’ve bid Adieu.
Bring me all your flowers today
Whether pink, white or red:
I’d rather have one blossom now
Than a truckload when I’m dead.
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