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American Poetry: The 19th Century: Volume 1: Freneau to Whitman (Library of America)

By: BENEDICTA WARD, TRANS.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Library of America: 1993-10-01

Seller ID: 20070607106006

ISBN: 0940450607

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

In nineteenth-century America, poetry was an integral part of everyday life. The two volumes of The Library of America's American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century reveal the vigor and diversity of a tradition embracing solitary visionaries and congenial storytellers, humorists and dissidents, songwriters and philosophers. These extraordinary anthologies reassess America's poetic legacy with a comprehensive sweep that no previous anthology has attempted.

Extending chronologically from the classic couplets of Philip Freneau to the pioneering free verse of Walt Whitman, this first volume...
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American Poetry: The 19th Century: Volume 1: Freneau to Whitman (Library of America)

By: BENEDICTA WARD, TRANS.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Library of America: 1993-10-01

Seller ID: 20070607106007

ISBN: 0940450607

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Extending chronologically from the classic couplets of Philip Freneau to the pioneering free verse of Walt Whitman, this first volume...
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American Poetry : The Nineteenth Century Volume 2: Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney, American Indian Poetry, Folk Songs and Spirituals (Library of America)

By: BENEDICTA WARD, TRANS.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Library of America: September 1993

Seller ID: 20070607106008

ISBN: 094045078X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

This second volume of The Library of America's two-volume collection of nineteenth-century American poetry follows the evolution of American poetry from the monumental mid-century achievements of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson to the modernist stirrings of Stephen Crane and Edwin Arlington Robinson. The cataclysm of the Civil War--reflected in fervent antislavery protests, in marching songs and poetic calls to arms, and in muted post-bellum expressions of grief and reconciliation--ushered in a period of accelerating change and widening regional perspectives.

Here too are the pioneerin...
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In their own words: robber barons and radicals (In Their Own Words)

By: BENEDICTA WARD, TRANS.

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Perigee Trade: 1997-04-01

Seller ID: 20070929124221

ISBN: 0399522794

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

From the impeachment of Andrew Johnson to the saga of the Gilded Age and Reconstruction, this period of American history is brought to life through the words of those who lived through it, including: Booker T. Washington; Andrew Carnegie; and Julia Dent Grant.
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American Poetry : The Nineteenth Century Volume 2: Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney, American Indian Poetry, Folk Songs and Spirituals (Library of America)

By: BENEDICTA WARD, TRANS.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Library of America: September 1993

Seller ID: 141552

ISBN: 094045078X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Subscription edition, blue hardcover in ivory slipcase. Near fine condition, though slipcase shows minor imperfections.
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The Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Cistercian studies 59)

By: WARD, TRANS., BENEDICTA

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Cistercian Publications: June 1987

Seller ID: 172857

ISBN: 0879079592

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

This classic Western translation of the sayings of the Desert Fathers has played a crucial role in the formation of Christian spirituality and has led countless men and women into the desert questing for a truer knowledge of God and themselves. Unlike the anonymous, or Systematic Collection, these sayings are attributed and arranged alphabetically, rather than topically. You'll find familiar voices here, such as Gregory the Theologian, Anthony the Great, and John Cassian alongside lesser known, but no less helpful hermits such as John the Dwarf, Paul the Simple, or the hermitess Sarah. These a...
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The Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Cistercian studies 59)

By: WARD, TRANS., BENEDICTA

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Cistercian Publications: June 1987

Seller ID: 163835

ISBN: 0879079592

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks (Penguin Classics)

By: WARD, TRANS., BENEDICTA

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: August 2003

Seller ID: 156740

ISBN: 0140447318

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

This translation of the Vitae Patrum has it all: comical stories, thwarted demons, sagacious aphorisms, and hard truths. Open the book at random and you'll find a pearl some fourth century monk sold all for and spent a lifetime seeking. Take Bessarion here, who on his deathbed said, ''A monk ought to be like the Cherubim and Seraphim, all eye.'' The pervasive and lasting influence these bands of men and women who forsook the world in the deserts of Egypt and the Middle East have had on Christianity and Christians would be difficult to overstate. Whether you come out agreeing with their ...
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Author:BENEDICTA WARD, TRANS