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two kings, the good but ineffective Henry VI with his rival, the sensual and victorious Edward IV. He also offers more evidence of the perils of aristocratic factionalism in a series of scenes that display the grievous wounds caused by the Wars of the Roses. Here we watch the savage death of the Duke of York at the hands of Queen Margaret, the moving lament of King Henry as he witnesses the slaughter of the battle of Towton where the Lancastrians were defeated, and finally, Henry's death at the hands of Richard of Gloucester, later King Richard III.  (less)

jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. Mastcr Francis Benzc nont to Ben Jostsn . t Souls of Poets dead and gone What Elysiuin have ye known, I-Iappy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern 7 ji 2at. r. Printed in Great Britain PAGE RICHAR S D T EELE , . . . vii Steele and this is rightly so, tor . . .. the periodical pap which he --edi - , C . T is as an essayist rather than a dramitist that m no4 think of t e e i e a ndrt his is ightli for his-b st work is be f nd in J , edited. There is, howeier, in his plays he s e wiiand hu oir that is to bk found in the TatGer and etcitor g r id his fokr comedies occup ah important positioi in the . b history df th English drama. In this Introduction it bill be suffikient to giye a brief etch . of L Steeles life, with especial . refbrence to his relation with the thatre, hich were intirnite and varied. - . 4. i . I - I - 74 , l l Readers d sirouso f knowing more about Steele may be referred to Forsters Essay, first printed in the Quarter9 RGiew for I 855 to Mr. Dobsons Richard Steele, 1886 in the E gZtsh worthies series and to the Lzye of Riclurrd SteCIf, 2 , vols., 1889, by , thet present writer. From the last-mentioned work I have oicasionally borrowed a phrase or sentence in this-Introductionl I .- . f Richard Steele was born in Dublin in 1672 his father was an attorney who married a widow named Elinor Symes, but both his parents died - while he was a child, and Steele passed into the care of a kind uncle, Henry Gascoigne, private secretary to the Duke of Ormond, and by his influence was placed upon the foundation of the Charterhouse in 1684. Two years later Joseph Addison, who was only a few weeks younger than Steele, entered that famous school, and the two boys formed the closest of friendships.@G±ë…¸Rÿ¾Û€  (less)

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. . . . . 41 CHAPTER IV RobertW. Chambers . . . . . . . 55 CHAPTER V I IrvinShrmsburyCobb . . . . . . . . 73 CHAPTER V1 -.. Ja lesBrendanCo znol y . . . . . . 85 CHAPTER V11 Richard Harding Davis . . . . . . SOS b CHAPTER V111 ---Margaret Wade Deland . . . . . . . 129 CHAPTER IX --EdmFerber . . . . 8 . . . . . . 146 CHAPTER X ,-Mary Wilkins Freeman . . . . . . . 160 b TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER XI . PAGE CHAPTER XI1 ...... William Sidney Porter 0. Henry 200 CHAPTER XI11 Joseph Hergesheimer . . . . . m e . e 223 I CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV . . . . . . . . . . f JackLondon. 256 , v CHAPTER XVI James Brander Matthews . . l . . . 278 CHAPTER XVII --Melville Davisson Post . . . . . . . . 293 CHAPTER XVIII hfary Roberts Rinehart . . . . . . . . 309 CHAPTER XIX 1300th Tarkington . . . . . . . . . 3 2 2 CHAPTER XX Edith Wzarton . . . . . l . 337 FOREWORD A T the risk of supererogation I desire to state emphatically that these twenty authors are only representative of our short story writers. T labor under no delusion that they are all we have 01 high rank, rather am I inclined to suspect that the first prospective reader will find his favorite story teller missing. Some of my own preferred stylists are conspicuously absent and, although for thc nost part I have included those whom within prescrloed limits I place first, I regretfully record the absentees. The short story is the literary medium that supersedes all others in America one small volume is a container too exiguous for even its chief authors. According to the dominant principle working throu lout the series of which this book is a unit, the writJi-s discussed should be living . or at least contemporary. If, by request of the publishers, Jack London and 0. Henry were to be replevined from the famous dead, I m7as of the opinion that Richard Harding Davis should not be omitted.@G±ë…¸Rÿ¾Û€  (less)

1327), Johannes Tauler (d. 1361), and Heinrich Suso (d. 1365); in Flanders, Jan Ruysbroek (d. 1381); in Italy, Dante Alighieri himself (d. 1321), Jacopone da Todi (d. 1306), St. Catherine of Siena (d. 1380), and many lesser writers who strove, in prose or in poetry, to express the hidden things of the spirit, the secret intercourse of the human soul with the Divine, no longer in the official Latin of the Church, but in the language of their own people, a man's own vernacular, which is nearest to him, inasmuch as it is most closely united to him. In England, the great names of Richard Rolle, the Hermit of Hampole (d. 1349), of Walter Hilton /P P(d. 1396), and of Mother Juliana of Norwich, whose Revelation of Divine Love professedly date from 1373, speak for themselves. /P PThe seven tracts or treatises before us were published in 1521 in a little quarto volume: Imprynted at London in Poules chyrchyarde at the sygne of the Trynyte, by Henry Pepwell. In the yere of our lorde God, M.CCCCC.XXI., the xvi. daye of Nouembre. They may, somewhat loosely speaking, be regarded as belonging to the fourteenth century, though the first and longest of them professes to be but a translation of the work of the great Augustinian mystic of an earlier age. /P PSt. Bernard, Richard of St. Victor, and St. Bonaventura--all three very familiar figures to students of Dante's Paradiso--are the chief influences in the story of English mysticism. And, through the writings of his latter-day followers, Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, and the anonymous author of the Divine Cloud of Unknowing, Richard of St. Victor is, perhaps, the most important of the three. /PHimself either a Scot or an Irishman by birth, Richar@:ó33333ÿ¾Û€  (less)

spaces, invoking our own domestic aesthetics, creating an extension of ourselves, a statement of our character, our historical and social situation, and our aspirations. IHome Sweet Home 102/I investigates these and other notions of home through texts, found photographs, commissioned artwork, and music. Jay Davis's fantastical interior-scapes are illustrated and discussed by poet Max Henry; Wolfgang Tillmans contributes his first-ever still life together with a collection of recent unpublished work; Edgar Allen Poe's essay The Philosophy of Furniture offers a picture of his perfect room; Art Nouveau graphic artist Aubrey Beardsley decorates in dripping curlicues; and more. A surprise, too, upon entering IHome Sweet Home 102/I: out of its pages fall housing confetti, small cutouts of house shapes from architecture and design magazines. Edited by Charlotte Troy.P Essays by Edgar Allen Poe, James R.A. Noyes and Max Henry.P Introduction by Richard Hamilton.P Paperback, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 148 pgs / 87 color.P  (less)

Who should have been the heroes? What makes someone dedicate their life to the defence of a nation, whether it be on land, at sea, or in the air? What part did these people play in shaping the path of modern British military history?brBritain as a nation has always been very proud of its military capabilities and through that its military personnel. Presented here is a unique collection of around 100 mini-biographies, taken from the Dictionary of National Biography, of some of the people who made the defence of their country their life.brMilitary historian Hew Strachan has not only chosen the 'lives' to go into this collection but has also written a detailed introduction to complement his selection, which in itself makes an interesting and insightful read.brThis anthology isn't designed to give a cohesive history of life in the British army, navy, and airforce over the past 100 years, but rather it hopes to provide interesting snapshots into the lives of a few of the individuals who have made their mark, somehow or other, in the military world.brEntries include:brW. S. Chalmers on David BeattybrF. Maurice on Douglas HaigbrDenis Richards on Sir Arthur Travers HarrisbrRonald Lewin on Captain Sir Basil Henry Liddell HartbrE. T. Williams on Field-Marshall MontgomerybrPeter Wykenham on Arthur TedderbrPeter Wykenham on Hugh TrenchardbrPreface by Brian HarrisonbrIntroduction by Hew StrachanbrContentsbrBiographiesbrbrHew Strachan is currently Chichele Professor of the History of War and Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Prior to that he was Professor of Modern History and Director of the Scottish Centre for War Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is joint editor of War in History and he is the author@  (less)

[Woody Allen] that if he really wants to serve humanity, / he should tell funnier jokes -- wait, that's my duty, / I think, that's my public duty! Because sooner or later, / we all turn upside down.PWearing both heart and wit on his sleeve, Kirby confides in longish narrative poems events he actually or vicariously experienced -- as a child, a teen, a young man, and now -- as well as some future scenes he imagines. Literary theorists Jacques Derrida and Roland Barthes; Little Richard and Muhammed Ali; Herman Melville, James Dickey, and Henry James; friends, family, personal heroes, and acquaintances, including the Ah Oui Girl of Paris and Tige Watley's Whoah of Baton Rouge, are all equally alive in Kirby's poems.PAs Walt Whitman did, Kirby offers a first-person speaker as a proxy for everyone else (Who, including ourselves, / knows what we know and when we know it?), achieving a unity and accessible authenticity rare in poetry. A fun house, a mishmash for sure, The House of Blue Light is a delightfully entertaining, irreverent, erudite collection of commentary piling upon commentary that brings us that one element so largely absent / from our quotidian existence, i.e., surprise.  (less)