The Collected Papers of Henry Bradley
Title | The Collected Papers of Henry Bradley PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Bradley |
Publisher | Oxford, The Clarendon Press |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | English language |
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The Periodical
Title | The Periodical PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 694 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Books |
ISBN |
Collected Critical Writings
Title | Collected Critical Writings PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Hill |
Publisher | |
Pages | 827 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0199234485 |
The Collected Critical Writings gathers more than forty years of Hill's published criticism, in a revised final form, and also adds much new work. It will serve as the canonical volume of criticism by Hill, the pre-eminent poet-critic whom A. N. Wilson has called "probably the best writer alive, in verse or in prose." In his criticism Hill ranges widely, investigating both poets (including Jonson, Dryden, Hopkins, Whitman, Eliot, and Yeats ) and prose writers (such as Tyndale, Clarendon, Hobbes, Burton, Emerson, and F. H. Bradley). He is also steeped in the historical context - political, poetic, and religious - of the writers he studies. Most importantly, he brings texts and contexts into new and telling relations, neither reducing texts to the circumstances of their utterance nor imagining that they can float free of them. A number of the essays have already established themselves as essential reading on particular subjects, such as his analysis of Vaughan's "The Night", his discussion of Gurney's poetry, and his critical account of The Oxford English Dictionary. Others confront the problems of language and the nature of value directly, as in "Our Word is Our Bond", "Language, Suffering, and Value", and "Poetry and Value". In all his criticism, Hill reveals literature to be an essential arena of civic intelligence.
The Theory of English Lexicography, 1530-1791
Title | The Theory of English Lexicography, 1530-1791 PDF eBook |
Author | Tetsuro Hayashi |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 181 |
Release | 1978-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027209596 |
This book serves as a welcome addition to the better known "English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755," by Starnes & Noyes (new edition published by Benjamins 1991). Whereas Starnes & Noyes describe the history of English lexicography as an evolutionary progress-by-accumulation process, Professor Hayashi focuses on issues of method and theory, starting with John Palsgrave's "Lesclarissement de la langue francoyse" (1530), to John Walker's "A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language" (1791). This book also includes a detailed discussion of Dr. Johnson's influential "Dictionary of the English Language" (1755).
Lost for Words
Title | Lost for Words PDF eBook |
Author | Lynda Mugglestone |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780300106992 |
Examines the hidden history through which the Oxford English Dictionary came into being in a study that traces the personal battles involved in chronicling an ever-changing language.
The American Oxonian
Title | The American Oxonian PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Rhodes scholarships |
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Vol. for 1934- include Addresses and occupations of Rhodes scholars and other Oxonians (called 1934-36, Addresses and occupations of Rhodes scholars).
Treasure-house of the Language
Title | Treasure-house of the Language PDF eBook |
Author | Charlotte Brewer |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780300124293 |
The legendary Oxford English Dictionary today contains over 600,000 words and a staggering 2,500,000 quotations to illuminate the meaning and history of those words. A glorious, bursting treasure-house, the OED serves as a guardian of the literary jewels of the past, a testament to the richness of the English language today, and a guarantor of future understanding of the language. In this book, Charlotte Brewer begins her account of the OED at the point where others have stopped--the publication of the final installment of the first edition in 1928--and carries it through to the metamorphosis of the dictionary into a twenty-first-century electronic medium. Brewer describes the difficulties of keeping the OED up to date over time and recounts the recurring debates over finances, treatment of contentious words, public vs. scholarly expectations, proper sources of quotations, and changing editorial practices. With humor and empathy, she portrays the predilections and personalities of the editors, publishers, and assistants who undertook the Sisyphean task of keeping apace with the modern explosion of vocabulary. Utilizing rich archives in Oxford as well as new electronic resources, the author uncovers a history no less complex and fascinating than the Oxford English Dictionary itself.