Excerpt from Versatile Verse Many prominent actors and singers have featured his songs. His poems and epigrams have received wide commendation at the hands of some of the world's best known authors and lecturers. He was a member of Company F, First Virginia Regiment; was born in Baltimore Maryland, and married in Ken tucky. As a southern dialect story teller, he is said to be unsurpassed, most of his stories being his own. His experience as a traveler and student of character, backed by an artistic temperament and natural gifts, have per milted him to draw his pictures from a rich storehouse of personal experience. The papers of the country say of him, He is a speaker of great forcefulness, earnestness and dramatic ability, with a large fund of humor and pathos, which he draws upon at Will. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Versatile Verses So many think the gift the gods bestow A patch of sunshine in dark meads below Is theirs - illusion vain 1 That those to whom ambrosial joys are known Communion with the gods are loth to own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

America's grantmaking foundations have grown rapidly over the course of recent decades, even in the face of financial and economic crises. Foundations have a great deal of freedom, enjoy widespread legitimacy, and wield considerable influence. In this book, David Hammack and Helmut Anheier follow up their edited volume, American Foundations, with a comprehensive historical account of what American foundations have done with that independence and power. While philanthropic foundations play important roles in other parts of the world, the U.S. sector stands out as exceptional. Nowhere else are they so numerous, prominent, or autonomous. What have been the main contributions of philanthropic foundations to American society? And what might the future hold for them? A Versatile American Institution considers foundations in a new way. Previous accounts typically focused narrowly on their organization, donors, and leaders, and their intentions—but not on the outcome of philanthropy. Rather than looking at foundations in a vacuum, Hammack and Anheier consider their roles and contributions in the context of their times and their economic and political circumstances.

Excerpt from Essays, Verse and Letters of Joel M. Johanson The publication of this book is inspired by the desire of the many friends of Joel Marcus Johanson to have a permanent record of what he was and what he did. For them it is perhaps especially intended; but it is likewise offered to the general reader who is interested in any significant humanistic approach to the problems of the time. In making the selections for the volume from among the varied writings of Mr. Johanson the editors have been guided by an intimate knowledge of the man and his work and have sought to make their choices as representative as possible of the versatile personality which that work illustrates. The undertaking requires no apology, and the only regret that need be expressed is that the writer's untimely death cut short an intensive intellectual activity of which but the first fruits are here presented. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Biblical Allusions in Poe The study has been prosecuted mainly for the pur pose of increasing knowledge of the Bible. Hence Poe's writings have been used as a sort Of foil to bring into high relief the literary features of Scripture. Yet the student of Poe will find that the method here fol lowed has in no wise failed to exhibit his versatility and technical skill, as well as his biblical knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Demonstrates how data, methods and theories from sociolinguistics and creole studies synergize and mutually benefit each subfield.

With a range that spans the lyrical, heartfelt songs “Angel from Montgomery,” “Sam Stone,” and “Paradise” to the classic country music parody “You Never Even Called Me by My Name,” John Prine is a songwriter’s songwriter. Across five decades, Prine has created critically acclaimed albums—John Prine (one of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time), Bruised Orange, and The Missing Years—and earned many honors, including two Grammy Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting from the Americana Music Association, and induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. His songs have been covered by scores of artists, from Johnny Cash and Miranda Lambert to Bette Midler and 10,000 Maniacs, and have influenced everyone from Roger McGuinn to Kacey Musgraves. Hailed in his early years as the “new Dylan,” Prine still counts Bob Dylan among his most enthusiastic fans. In John Prine, Eddie Huffman traces the long arc of Prine’s musical career, beginning with his early, seemingly effortless successes, which led paradoxically not to stardom but to a rich and varied career writing songs that other people have made famous. He recounts the stories, many of them humorous, behind Prine’s best-known songs and discusses all of Prine’s albums as he explores the brilliant records and the ill-advised side trips, the underappreciated gems and the hard-earned comebacks that led Prine to found his own successful record label, Oh Boy Records. This thorough, entertaining treatment gives John Prine his due as one of the most influential songwriters of his generation.