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King Arthur in Cornwall by W. Howship Dickinson
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| Added by: jaybeere | Karma: 320.01 | Non-Fiction | 31 December 2007 |
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 King Arthur in Cornwall by W. Howship Dickinson
This book presents an attempt to bring together what may be accepted with regard to the personality and actual life of King Arthur, while putting aside everything that is obviously or probably fabulous. W. Howship Dickinson endeavoured to give due weight to the evidence, both positive and negative, rather than to work up to a pre-determined conclusion. With regard to the evidence of a positive kind, if so it may be called, especial weight was given to the details of topography, more particularly in Cornwall, with the Arthurian localities of which the author happens to have been more familiar than with those elsewhere. |
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 The Complete Poems
of Emily Dickinson
Nearly everyone who's had a brush with American lit knows the story of Emily Dickinson - her poetry unpublished in her lifetime, and then even after her death, her verses seeing the light of day only after having been "improved" on by an editor who found her rhymes imperfect and her meter "spasmodic." He even went so far as to make her metaphors "sensible." The fact is, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, to whom Dickinson had sent her poems, was a representative of the poetic establishment, and as with all artistic establishments then and now, was too rigid in his thinking and too impoverished in his imagination to comprehend a new voice of genius. |
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