Thomson: 610 books

James Thomson was a Scottish poet and playwright, known for his masterpiece The Seasons and the lyrics of "Rule, Britannia!". James Thomson was born in Ednam in Roxburghshire around 11 September 1700 and baptised on 15 September. He was the fourth of nine children of Thomas Thomson and Beatrix...

Famous for his poems ‘The Seasons’ and ‘The Castle of Indolence’, as well as for writing the lyrics of ‘Rule, Britannia’, James Thomson was an eighteenth century Scottish poet and playwright. His best verses foreshadowed some of the leading works of the Romantic Movement, while others...

**An unprecedented collection of polemical and autobiographical writings by America’s greatest composer-critic. **Following on the critically acclaimed 2014 edition of Virgil Thomson's collected newspaper music criticism, The Library of America and Pulitzer Prize–winning music critic Tim Page...

In examining the era’s multivalent tropes of seams and seamlessness, Thomson provides an innovative understanding of the interplay between division and unity in the thought, culture, and literature of the American Renaissance. New insights are offered on works by major authors such as Nathaniel...

How should we live? What do we owe to other people? In Goodness and Advice, the eminent philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson explores how we should go about answering such fundamental questions. In doing so, she makes major advances in moral philosophy, pointing to some deep problems for influential...

Virgil Thomson was a gifted composer and one of the nation’s foremost cultural critics. The best-selling autobiography Virgil Thomson (1966) is his gossipy telling of his own extraordinary progress from unteachable smart aleck to revered elder statesman. It recounts his artistically precocious...

Correspondence between James Thomson and W M Rossetti James Thomson, scottish poet (1834-1882) This ebook presents «Correspondence between James Thomson and W M Rossetti», from James Thomson. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. TABLE OF CONTENTS -01- ABOUT THIS BOOK -02- CORRESPONDENCE

Revisit the Golden Age of classical music in America through the witty and adventurous reviews of our greatest critic-composer: For fourteen memorable years Virgil Thomson surveyed the worlds of opera and classical music as the chief music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. An accomplished composer...

This is a collection of 17 short stories and a preceding poem. Of the 16 stories, nine of them are about Canada or Canadians, and five of the other seven, set in the U.S., South Africa, and England, are narrated by Canadian natives. In an extensive review of the book, Glenys Stow says that action...

In 1995 an American doctor made the astonishing discovery that some people actually had holes in their heads. And many of them could even hear their own eyes moving. Years later, it transpired that Philippa Thomson was one of them.Embarking on a much-needed weekend of respite from the care of her...

15 works of James Thomson Scottish Victorian-era poet  (1834-1882) This ebook presents a collection of 15 works of James Thomson. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - A Note on Forster's Life of Swift - A Voice from...

How power is wielded in environmental policy making at the state level, and how to redress the ingrained favoritism toward coal and electric utilities. The United States has pledged to the world community a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 26–28 percent below 2005 levels in 2025....

Satires And Profanities by G. W. Foote(George William Foote) and James Thomson.George William Foote was a British secularist and journal editor.In his Reminiscences of Charles Bradlaugh he recalls coming to London in January 1868 with "plenty of health and very little religion".James Thomson, who...

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