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"The poems are elegies for everything, including myself," writes James Richardson. "Beyond this, I cannot pretend to be certain of much about them. I suppose they reflect a self with only a tenuous grip on its surroundings, threatened by their (and its own) continuous vanishing. The poems respond with a helplessness, fitful control, and not a little tenderness. Like the protagonists of The Encyclopedia of Stones: A Pastoral, I am very slow, both unsettled and inspired by the vertiginous strangeness and speed of events. I suspect these melancholy and disembodied poems are attempts to arrest the moment long enough to say farewell, to let things go rather than be subject to their disappearance." Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

"The poems are elegies for everything, including myself," writes James Richardson. "Beyond this, I cannot pretend to be certain of much about them. I suppose they reflect a self with only a tenuous grip on its surroundings, threatened by their (and its own) continuous vanishing. The poems respond with a helplessness, fitful control, and not a little tenderness. Like the protagonists of The Encyclopedia of Stones: A Pastoral, I am very slow, both unsettled and inspired by the vertiginous strangeness and speed of events. I suspect these melancholy and disembodied poems are attempts to arrest the moment long enough to say farewell, to let things go rather than be subject to their disappearance." Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

First published in 1970. Part of a collection on African Studies, this text is a narrative of the personal adventures of the author during a tour of nine months through the desert, amongst the Touaricks and other tribes of the Saharan people and includes a description of the oases and cities of Ghat, Ghadames and Mourzuk. This is Volume I of two.

One of the characteristic features of Victorian poetry is dimness, a vanishing away-things blur with the motion of their passing, which seems inseparable from the mind's fading as it lets them go. Tennyson, Rossetti, Swinburne, and the young Yeats are elegists of the self; they render life as transparent, ghostlike, dissolving, ungraspable, nearly unrememberable. This vanishing away, this dimness, of Victorian poetry is most obvious in the twilights, mists, shadows, deep horizons, and flowing waters of its central landscape, but it is also a matter of sound and syntax, of repetition and rhythm, texture and line movement. Vanishing Lives examines these features and links them to larger issues, such as the psychology of the individual poets, and the Victorian and modern frames of mind. The tendencies under consideration are less ideas than forms or styles of feeling. They are so universal in the nineteenth century that they may not seem to call for comment, but for all their vagueness they are deep, powerful, resistant to change-an essential stratum of the experience of Victorian poetry. For poets like Yeats, who struggled to move beyond them, they were far more than the trappings of an outmoded poetry. They were a deeply ingrained aesthetic, a style, a morality, not only a way of art to be revised, but a way of living to be outgrown-a Tennysonian way.

One of the characteristic features of Victorian poetry is dimness, a vanishing away-things blur with the motion of their passing, which seems inseparable from the mind's fading as it lets them go. Tennyson, Rossetti, Swinburne, and the young Yeats are elegists of the self; they render life as transparent, ghostlike, dissolving, ungraspable, nearly unrememberable. This vanishing away, this dimness, of Victorian poetry is most obvious in the twilights, mists, shadows, deep horizons, and flowing waters of its central landscape, but it is also a matter of sound and syntax, of repetition and rhythm, texture and line movement. Vanishing Lives examines these features and links them to larger issues, such as the psychology of the individual poets, and the Victorian and modern frames of mind. The tendencies under consideration are less ideas than forms or styles of feeling. They are so universal in the nineteenth century that they may not seem to call for comment, but for all their vagueness they are deep, powerful, resistant to change-an essential stratum of the experience of Victorian poetry. For poets like Yeats, who struggled to move beyond them, they were far more than the trappings of an outmoded poetry. They were a deeply ingrained aesthetic, a style, a morality, not only a way of art to be revised, but a way of living to be outgrown-a Tennysonian way.

A reissue of a celebrated collection of poems from James Richardson. James Richardson's poems concern humor, paradox, and nuanced perception of human interaction As If was originally selected by Amy Clampitt and published as part of the National Poetry Series. In Clampitt's words: "To discover a vocabulary and a syntax equal in precision to the micron and the nanosecond: such is the enterprise James Richardson calls on his readers to join . . ."

By: James Richardson, Pub. 1930, Reprinted 2018, 342 pages, New Index, ISBN #0-89308-504-9.The narrative history of Greenville County is an excellent companion volume to Landrum's History of Spartanburg County, SC and Chapman's History of Edgefield County, SC, both neighboring counties of Greenville with much overlapping on both historyand families. This history not only completes the history of this midsection of Upper South Carolina but in addition provides th reader in many instances with detailed histories of over 167 of the early prominent families. These family sketches will help the "new comer" to the area to better understand the sometime complexities of family relationships brought about by the many intermarriages of these pioneer families. The book is profusely illustrated with photographs of many of the biographees. The NEW INDEX that was produced for this reprint contains the names of approximately 3,000 individuals.

Richardson is well-known for his five previous volumes of poetry and for his critical work. Along with new poems, this book includes a large selection of aphorisms, which have brought him a whole new audience. They are witty, profound, and often very funny.

James Richardson is one of the finest poets now writing, and the best contemporary practitioner of the art of aphorism.--Publishers WeeklyNot since the appearance of W. S. Merwin's translations and adaptations of aphorisms in Asian Figures, some thirty years ago, has an American poet managed to put down so much delightful and compelling wisdom.--American Literary ReviewNo one theme or moral pervades these tesserae of specificity. Rather, Richardson's elegant compression invites the reader to fill in the blanks with personal experience... Richardson's knack for the quintessential, sustained for more than a hundred pages, left me satisfied yet hungry for more.-- Times Literary SupplementReaders will be obsessed by this book; they will memorize passages, give copies to friends, proselytize. That's because Vectors so generously provides the best that poetry can offer. It is a masterpiece of practicality, beauty, and solace.-- Boston ReviewJames Richardson's Vectors... penetrates to the very heart of human nature. I stand looking in the mirror, alert to my own foibles, shaking my head as I tolerate what I know he knows about who I am.-- The Georgia ReviewAlmost every entry... introduces a new insight, provides a revelation, supplies a surprise... it is a book one wants to spend time with, a wonderfully friendly book, generous, witty and entertaining.-- Gulf CoastVectors is the kind of book you read, reread, thumb through, and pick up several extra copies because you want to share the joy you found in perusing it with friends.-- Barrow StreetJames Richardson's Vectors is a book of subversive wonders. Stunningly precise, these brilliant aphorisms and ten-second essays show a mind assessing, reassessing, discovering, and interrogating assumptions in ways that feel diamond-sharp, at once good-natured, quietly sly at times, and always, always, very shrewd. 'It can never be satisfied, the mind, never, ' wrote Wallace Stevens. Vectors is a remarkable testament to such questing, vivid minding, as these aphorisms alight on everything from the nature of perception, to God, success, fear, shame, self-consciousness, love and friendship.--Laurie Sheck

Gibraltar is perfect for a short break but you still need a guidebook. This concise, readable guide will save a precious half day of your trip by taking you straight to the places you want to see. This SECOND EDITION extends the original version with extra photos, an additional 12 page full colour street atlas and an index.Brief overview of Gibraltar's historyTravel essentials like money, telephones, opening times and bank holidaysYour options for getting there, including bus times and prices from MalagaOrientation guide to take you straight to the action as soon as you step off your plane or cross the land border9 full page colour maps to complement the text, each specially produced for this publication. These give an overview of Gibraltar, walking routes from the airport and border, street maps of the town centre and walking routes in the nature reserve. A convenient map on the back cover gives an overview of the Upper Rock for handy reference as you explore.A further 12 pages of 1:7000 scale street maps covering the whole of Gibraltar. These ensure you are never lost if you leave the main tourist areas. They also cover the Spanish streets between the border and La L nea bus station.Full colour pages, with over 30 photographs. Unlike many travel books, these are not library shots of market stalls, plates of food and people in national dress, or artistic close ups of ornate stonework. Instead they are straight forward pictures of Gibraltar's attractions, to help you plan your visit and fill you with enthusiasm for your trip.Suggested itineraries for different trip lengths, from visits of less than a day to trips of three days plus.Explanation of Gibraltar's bus system including lists of stops and a unique route mapIndexThe whole book is presented in an easy to read style. Rather than get bogged down with tedious detail for every restaurant and historic building, it presents the main attractions and explains how to get to them quickly. The format is optimised for the maps, large pages yet thin enough to hold in one hand as you wander the town and nature reserve.This book is only about Gibraltar. Other than transport details from Malaga to the adjacent town of La L nea, Spain is not covered at all.

Title: Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in 1845 and 1846; including a description of the oases and cities of Ghat, Ghadames and Mourzuk.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Richardson, James; 1848. 2 vol.; 8 . 1434.i.31.