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1) Hunger
This book describes growing up on farms in the Midwest in 40s and 50s. After graduating from college, Ron travelled to Alaska where he worked on the rail road before becoming a teacher in remote villages. The author tells of his adventures flying, fishing, and prospecting. There were hard times and tender musings that will bring tears to your eyes. Ron shares in a way that will let you live many of his experiences with him. Many dream of living
...9) Cowper
Cowper is the most important English poet of the period between Pope and the illustrious group headed by Wordsworth, Byron, and Shelley, which arose out of the intellectual ferment of the European Revolution. As a reformer of poetry, who called it back from conventionality to nature, and at the same time as the teacher of a new school of sentiment which acted as a solvent upon the existing moral and social system, he may perhaps himself be numbered
...10) Carlyle
This biography of Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was published in the first series of English Men of Letters in 1892. The author, John Nichol (1833-94), who also wrote on Byron for the series, was an author, poet and critic who was for many years professor of English literature at the University of Glasgow, and who moved in the same intellectual circles as Carlyle, though as he states in his prefatory note, he knew him only slightly. Nichol acknowledges
...11) Burke
A biography, and treastise on the work, Edmund Burke, an Irish statesman and philosopher. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party after moving to London in 1750.
Burke was a proponent of underpinning virtues with manners in society and of the importance of religious institutions for the moral stability and good of the state. These
...12) Goldsmith
William Black (1841–1898) was a novelist born in Glasgow, Scotland. His biography of the Irish-born poet, dramatist and novelist Oliver Goldsmith (c.1728-1774) was published in 1878 as the sixth volume in the series English Men of Letters. The biography is a colorful one. As Black observes, Goldsmith, who was trained as a physician but whose entire career was in literature, possessed a 'happy knack of enjoying the present hour',
...Published in 1891, this collection of Keats' correspondence was assembled by art historian and critic Sir Sidney Colvin (1845-1927). The 164 letters included in the book were written to Keats' closest friends and family. The book also includes a preface which supplies biographical details of Keats' correspondents. (Source: Amazon)
14) Keats
Sir Sidney Colvin (1845–1927) was the obvious choice to write a book on John Keats (1795–1821) for the first series of English Men of Letters. At various times Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, and Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, Colvin had a long-standing interest in the poet, publishing an edition of his letters to family and friends in 1891, and later writing a longer biography,
...16) Bacon
This investigation of Bacon the scholar and man of letters begins with a look at the early days ang progresses to his relationships with Queen Elizabeth and James I. It includes accounts of his positions as solicitor general, attorney-general, and chancellor. The book concludes with Bacon's failure, his overall philosophy, and summaries of his writings. ( Summary by Bill Boerst/LibriVox )
17) Mauprat
20) Artemisia
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