The Government of the Tongue
Title | The Government of the Tongue PDF eBook |
Author | Seamus Heaney |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 2014-01-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1466855681 |
In his volume of critical essays The Government of the Tongue, Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets. Throughout the collection, Heaney's gifts as a wise and genial reader are exercised with characteristic exactness, and we are reminded, above all, of the essentially gratifying nature of poetry itself.
Government of the Tongue
Title | Government of the Tongue PDF eBook |
Author | Seamus Heaney |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2010-11-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0571265553 |
The title, The Government of the Tongue, carries suggestions of both monastic discipline and untrammelled romanticism, and is meant to raise an old question about the rights and status of poetic utterance itself. Should it be governed? Should it be the governor? Seamus Heaney here scrutinizes the work of several poets, British and Irish, American and European, whose work is responsive to such strains and tensions.
The Government of the Tongue
Title | The Government of the Tongue PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Allestree |
Publisher | |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 1693 |
Genre | Christian life |
ISBN |
Governing the Tongue
Title | Governing the Tongue PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Kamensky |
Publisher | Oxford University Press on Demand |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780195090802 |
Governing the Tongue explains why the spoken word assumed such importance in the culture of early New England. Author Jane Kamensky re-examines such famous events as the Salem witch trials and the banishment of Anne Hutchinson - as well as the little-known words of unsung individuals - to expose the ever-present fear of what the Puritans called "sins of the tongue." But if New Englanders despised some kinds of speech, they cherished others. While they were enjoined to "govern" their tongues in daily life, laypeople were also told to lift up their voices "like a trumpet" when speaking to or of God. By placing speech at the heart of New England's early history, Kamensky develops new ideas about the relationship between language and power both in that place and time and, by extension, in our world today.
Breaking the Tongue
Title | Breaking the Tongue PDF eBook |
Author | Vyvyane Loh |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 516 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780393326543 |
"Dramatic....One of the most ambitious and accomplished debut novels in recent memory."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review.
The Government of the Tongue. By the Author of The Whole Duty of Man [i.e. Richard Allestree?]&c
Title | The Government of the Tongue. By the Author of The Whole Duty of Man [i.e. Richard Allestree?]&c PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Allestree |
Publisher | |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 1674 |
Genre | Conduct of life |
ISBN |
The government of the tongue, by the author of The whole duty of man. [Another]
Title | The government of the tongue, by the author of The whole duty of man. [Another] PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Allestree (D.D.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1721 |
Genre | |
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