A Green and Pagan Land
Title | A Green and Pagan Land PDF eBook |
Author | David Huckvale |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2018-01-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1476629935 |
British literature often refers to pagan and classical themes through richly detailed landscapes that suggest more than a mere backdrop of physical features. The myth-inspired writings of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Algernon Blackwood, Aleister Crowley, Lord Dunsany and even Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows informed later British films and television dramas such as The Owl Service (1969-70), Blood on Satan's Claw (1971), The Wicker Man (1973), Excalibur (1981) and Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975). The author analyzes the evocative language and esthetics of landscapes in literature, film, television and music, and how "psycho-geography" is used to explore the influence of the past on the present.
Pagans in the Promised Land
Title | Pagans in the Promised Land PDF eBook |
Author | Steven T. Newcomb |
Publisher | Fulcrum Publishing |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9781555916428 |
"An analysis of how religious bias shaped U.S. federal Indian law."--
Pagan Cornwall
Title | Pagan Cornwall PDF eBook |
Author | Cheryl Straffon |
Publisher | Conran Octopus |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Cornwall (England : County) |
ISBN | 9780951885925 |
Being Brought from Africa to America - The Best of Phillis Wheatley
Title | Being Brought from Africa to America - The Best of Phillis Wheatley PDF eBook |
Author | Phillis Wheatley |
Publisher | Read Books Ltd |
Pages | 111 |
Release | 2020-07-31 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1528791029 |
Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784) was an American freed slave and poet who wrote the first book of poetry by an African-American. Sold into a slavery in West Africa at the age of around seven, she was taken to North America where she served the Wheatley family of Boston. Phillis was tutored in reading and writing by Mary, the Wheatleys' 18-year-old daughter, and was reading Latin and Greek classics from the age of twelve. Encouraged by the progressive Wheatleys who recognised her incredible literary talent, she wrote "To the University of Cambridge” when she was 14 and by 20 had found patronage in the form of Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon. Her works garnered acclaim in both England and the colonies and she became the first African American to make a living as a poet. This volume contains a collection of Wheatley's best poetry, including the titular poem “Being Brought from Africa to America”. Contents include: “Phillis Wheatley”, “Phillis Wheatley by Benjamin Brawley”, “To Maecenas”, “On Virtue”, “To the University of Cambridge”, “To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty”, “On Being Brought from Africa to America”, “On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell”, “On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield”, etc. Ragged Hand is proudly publishing this brand new collection of classic poetry with a specially-commissioned biography of the author.
The Poems of Phillis Wheatley
Title | The Poems of Phillis Wheatley PDF eBook |
Author | Phillis Wheatley |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2012-03-15 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0486115291 |
At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley was the first black American poet to publish a book. Her elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses of the beginnings of African-American literary traditions. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Pan
Title | Pan PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Robichaud |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2021-10-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1789144779 |
From ancient myth to contemporary art and literature, a beguiling look at the many incarnations of the mischievous—and culturally immortal—god Pan, now in paperback. Pan—he of the cloven hoof and lustful grin, beckoning through the trees. From classical myth to modern literature, film, and music, the god Pan has long fascinated and terrified the western imagination. “Panic” is the name given to the peculiar feeling we experience in his presence. Still, the ways in which Pan has been imagined have varied wildly—fitting for a god whose very name the ancients confused with the Greek word meaning “all.” Part-goat, part-man, Pan bridges the divide between the human and animal worlds. In exquisite prose, Paul Robichaud explores how Pan has been imagined in mythology, art, literature, music, spirituality, and popular culture through the centuries. At times, Pan is a dangerous, destabilizing force; sometimes, a source of fertility and renewal. His portrayals reveal shifting anxieties about our own animal impulses and our relationship to nature. Always the outsider, he has been the god of choice for gay writers, occult practitioners, and New Age mystics. And although ancient sources announced his death, he has lived on through the work of Arthur Machen, Gustav Mahler, Kenneth Grahame, D. H. Lawrence, and countless others. Pan: The Great God’s Modern Return traces his intoxicating dance.
By Land, Sea, and Sky
Title | By Land, Sea, and Sky PDF eBook |
Author | Morgan Daimler |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2010-07-02 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0557495121 |
This book is a selection of modernized, paganized prayers and charms from volumes one and two of Carmichael's Carmina Gadelica, intended for use by Druids, Celtic Reconstructionists, or others interested in Celtic spiritulaity. The Carmina Gadelica is a six volume collection of prayers, charms, and folklore from Scotland assembled around 1900 by Alexander Carmichael. This book represents modernized, re-paganized versions of selected prayers and charms from the first two volumes of the series. It is designed to be used by Celtic Polytheists, Druids, or anyone else interested in Celtic Spirituality. All original deity references have been replaced with the names of Irish gods, and the language has been modernized, but otherwise the content has been kept as true to the original as possible.