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This history of the Roman Empire has three purposes: to describe what was happening in the central administration of the Empire; to indicate how life went on in Italy and the provinces, in the towns, countryside and army camps; and to show how these two different worlds impinged on each other.

During America's founding period, poets and balladeers engaged in a series of literary "wars" against political leaders, journalists, and each other, all in the name of determining the political course of the new nation. Political poems and songs appeared regularly in newspapers (and as pamphlets and broadsides), commenting on political issues and controversies and satirizing leaders like Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. Drawing on hundreds of individual poems-including many that are frequently overlooked-Poetry Wars reconstructs the world of literary-political struggle as it unfolded between the Stamp Act crisis and the War of 1812. Colin Wells argues that political verse from this period was a unique literary form that derived its cultural importance from its capacity to respond to, and contest the meaning of, other printed texts-from official documents and political speeches to newspaper articles and rival political poems. First arising during the Revolution as a strategy for subverting the authority of royal proclamations and congressional declarations, poetic warfare became a ubiquitous part of early national print culture. Poets representing the emerging Federalist and Republican parties sought to wrest control of political narratives unfolding in the press by engaging in literary battles. Tracing the parallel histories of the first party system and the rise and eventual decline of political verse, Poetry Wars shows how poetic warfare lent urgency to policy debates and contributed to a dynamic in which partisans came to regard each other as threats to the republic's survival. Breathing new life into this episode of literary-political history, Wells offers detailed interpretations of scores of individual poems, references hundreds of others, and identifies numerous terms and tactics of the period's verse warfare.

12SynopsisWorking Title: ForeverAuthor: Colin WellsThe town of Mill Creek is filled with all kinds of people. This story focuses on three families in the small berg, each facing their own serous dilemmas as the Christmas Holiday rolls up. The Carters, The Dawkins and the Wells. The Carter's have just suffered the loss of their father, the patriarch of the family, Oliver Carter. They are gathering as a family for Christmas aswell as for the memorial service and reading of Oliver's will. Theirs is a story of a family that was once fiercely loyal and devoted to one another, now facing this dilemma in tatters.There are complications to the reading of the will. Charges are leveled that the eldest brother, Michael has been making changes to the will that give his other siblings reason to doubt his intentions. Several local lawyers are worried that there may be foul play going on with Michael, who has also been chosen by his father to be the executor of his will.Gloria is the second oldest and a doctor. She and the other two siblings are suspicious about the tinkering Michael has been doing on their father's will. Michael was hired by his father to be the company attorney and has been selected as the executor of the will. The reading of the will is scheduled for the day after Christmas and the tension builds to that point.The Dawkins family are facing a different type of struggle, as a night of infidelity has lefttheir marriage on precarious grounds. Leonard and Molly have always been known in Mill Creek as the perfect couple. Camelot revisited. On a business trip, Leonard who hasn't drank in several years, has a few rounds with his co-workers and ends up becoming involved with a young co-worker. He confesses his indiscretion to Molly as soon as he arrives home and she becomes extremely upset. She demands that Leonard fire the girl immediately, but he fails to do so. He simply moves her to a different department in their firm and this fuels Molly's suspicions that theaffair is ongoing, when in reality, it was a one-night stand.