John a fairhurst (6 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good Plus. Second Edition. 1999. xx, 235pp. Colour and B&W photos. "This revised and fully illustrated edition of Building Stones of Edinburgh highlights the geological characteristics of sandstones from famous local quarries such as Craigleith and Hailes and contrasts these with materials available today from other parts of Scotland and northern England." Light wear to covers. Book is otherwise in very good condition. No inscriptions. All contents are tight and clean.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. P/B 235 pages condition is very good.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Softcover, some light shelfwear, otherwise in Very Good condition. Second edition, pp234, b&w and colour illustrations. Edinburgh, 'Grey Athens of the North', owes much of its splendour to the quality of the sandstone from which most of its finest buildings are constructed. Building Stones of Edinburgh focuses on the geological characteristics of these sandstones which were extracted from local quarries and includes within its pages examples of many of the fine buildings which have made Edinburgh famous.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 2009 OUP hardcover edition. Unread copy in very good condition. From the cover: Published to mark the bicentenary of Alfred Tennyson's birth, these essays offer an important revaluation of his achievement and its lasting importance. After several years in which the temper of criticism has been largely political (and often hostile towards Tennyson in particular) a number of influential recent accounts of Victorian poetry have rediscovered the virtues of a closer style of reading and the benefits and pleasures of an approach that, without at all ignoring social and cultural contexts, approaches them through a primary alertness to textual detail and literary history. This volume, including entirely commissioned work by a wide range of critics and scholars from across the profession in both Britain and North America, seeks to bring such forms of attention to bear on the immense variety of Tennyson's career by exploring the complex and multiple connections between Tennyson and other writers - his predecessors, his contemporaries, and his successors. Collectively, the essays describe an intricate network of affiliation and indebtedness, resistance and reconciliation. They provide a unique assessment of Tennyson's origins, work, and imaginative legacy as he enters upon his third century. Contents: Introduction by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst 1. Tennyson's Dying Fall by Peter McDonald 2. Tennyson's Retrospective View by Dinah Birch 3. Tennyson's Limitations by Christopher Decker 4. Tennyson's Grotesque by Aidan Day 5. Tennyson, Browning, Virgil by Daniel Karlin 6. Tennyson and the Voices of Ovid's Heroines by A. A. Markley 7. On Lines and Grooves from Shakespeare to Tennyson by Eric Griffiths 8. Epic Sensibilities: 'Old Man' Milton and the Making of Tennyson's Idylls of the King by N. K. Sugimura 9. The Wheels of Being: Tennyson and Shelley by Michael O'Neill 10. 'Brother-Poets': Tennyson and Browning by Donald S. Hair 11. Friendship, Poetry, and Insurrection: The Kemble Letters by Marion Shaw 12. Tennyson's Humour by Matthew Bevis 13. Edward Lear and Tennyson's Nonsense by Richard Cronin 14. 'Men my brothers, men the workers': Tennyson and the Victorian Working Class Poet by Kirstie Blair 15. 'Frater Ave'? Tennyson and Swinburne by Linda K. Hughes 16. After Tennyson: The Presence of the Poet, 1892-1918 by Samantha Matthews 17. Tennyson, by Ear by Angela Leighton 18. Hardy's Tennyson by Helen Small 19. T. S. Eliot and Tennyson by John Morton 20. Tennyson and Auden by John Fuller 21. Betjeman's Tennyson by Seamus Perry.…

paperback. Condizione: Good. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

Second edition, revised and fully illustrated. xx + 235pp; 6 appendices; 14 colour plates; 38 figures; 6 tables; index. Pictorial soft covers slightly rubbed at edges, otherwise Fine. No inscriptions. [the origin, geological characteristics, preparation and uses of the high quality sandstones from local Edinburgh quarries including Craigleith and Hailes is described in detail. Most of the city's finest buildings were constructed from these stones].…