Author: Joseph AddisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Essays on the Pleasures of the Imagination
Author: Joseph AddisonEssays on Taste, and the Pleasures of the Imagination ... From the Spectator
Author: Joseph AddisonThe Pleasures of the Imagination
Author: John BrewerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113591236X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. It charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to th public in coffee-houses, concert halls, libraries, theatres and pleasure gardens. In 1660, there were few professional authors, musicians and painters, no public concert series, galleries, newspaper critics or reviews. By the dawn of the nineteenth century they were all aprt of the cultural life of the nation. John Brewer's enthralling book explains how this happened and recreates the world in which the great works of English eighteenth-century art were made. Its purpose is to show how literature, painting, music and the theatre were communicated to a public increasingly avid for them. It explores the alleys and garrets of Grub Street, rummages the shelves of bookshops and libraries, peers through printsellers' shop windows and into artists' studios, and slips behind the scenes at Drury Lane and Covent Garden. It takes us out of Gay and Boswell's London to visit the debating clubs, poetry circles, ballrooms, concert halls, music festivals, theatres and assemblies that made the culture of English provincial towns, and shows us how the national landscape became one of Britain's greatest cultural treasures. It reveals to us a picture of English artistic and literary life in the eighteenth century less familiar, but more suprising, more various and more convincing than any we have seen before.
The Pleasures of the Imagination
Author: Mark AkensidePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Imagination
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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The Pleasures of Imagination
Author: Mark AkensidePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Imagination
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Philosophical Imagination
Author: Richard MoranPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190633778
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
A collection of philosophical articles on subjects ranging from aesthetics, the philosophy of mind and action, the first person, to engagements with various contemporary philosophers.
Addison's Essays
Author: Joseph AddisonPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434404811
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Addison's selected essays cover such diverse topics as Sir Roger de Coverly, The Tatler's Court, Stateswomen, Humors of the Town, Tales and Allegories, The Court of Honor, Fashion, and much more.
What Light Can Do
Author: Robert HassPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062096842
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Universally lauded poet Robert Hass offers a stunning, wide-ranging collection of essays on art, imagination, and the natural world—with accompanying photos throughout. What Light Can Do is a magnificent companion piece to the former U.S. Poet Laureate’s Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poetry collection, Time and Materials, as well as his earlier book of essays, the NBCC Award-winner Twentieth Century Pleasures. Haas brilliantly discourses on many of his favorite topics—on writers ranging from Jack London to Wallace Stevens to Allen Ginsberg to Cormac McCarthy; on California; and on the art of photography in several memorable pieces—in What Light Can Do, a remarkable literary treasure that might best be described as “luminous.”
The Pleasures of Imagination
Author: Mark AkensidePublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
How Should One Read a Book
Author: Virginia WoolfPublisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN: 8728206487
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
Virginia Woolf dreamed of the Day of Judgment. The "great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen" come to receive their rewards - crowns, laurels, names carved on marble. But, when he sees people coming with books under their arms, God turns to Peter and says: "Look, those need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. "They have loved reading." And this is the essence of her essay - sheer love for the written word: a joy in exploring the thoughts and imaginings of the author. If you sometimes get bogged down in a book, Woolf has produced the perfect self-help manual and motivational guide to reading. If you enjoyed 'How Should One Read a Book?', try 'How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading', by Mortimer J Adler. "To read a novel is a difficult and complex art," says Virginia Woolf. Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) made an impact during her life, but her fame grew in the decades after her death. The English writer helped launch the use of stream-of-consciousness in literature and was a pioneer of 20th century modernism. Arguably her greatest legacy, though, comes from how her writing helped to inspire the feminist movements of the second half of the 20th century. Along with members of her family and other authors, Woolf helped found the Bloomsbury Group. After she married the political theorist and author Leonard Woolf in 1912, they went on the found the Hogarth Press. Virginia also had a long relationship with the writer Vita Sackville-West. The affair featured in the 2018 movie Vita and Virginia', starring Gemma Arterton and Elizabeth Debicki, He best-known works include the novels 'Mrs Dalloway', 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Orlando'.