John B Beer:Providence and Love : Studies in Wordsworth, Channing, Myers, George Eliot, and Ruskin
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Cork Hill Pr, 2004-06-30. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Author. Cork Hill Press [Published date: 2004]. Hard cover, 111 pp. First printing, with full number line. Inscribed (personali… More...
Cork Hill Pr, 2004-06-30. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Author. Cork Hill Press [Published date: 2004]. Hard cover, 111 pp. First printing, with full number line. Inscribed (personalized) and signed by Author (first name only) on title page. In very good condition/ NO dust jacket. Glossy pictorial paper over boards have light bumping to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Previous owner's personalized gift inscription on front paste-down. Otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. A collection of poetry by Benner Cummings (1926 - 2016), the Poet Laureate to the International Surfing Museum, Huntington Beach, CA. [From About the Author] Benner Cummings's childhood was spent growing up in Seattle, Washington in an orphanage called The Seattle Children's Home. Fortunately, it had its good points as well as bad...during the Depression period it was one of the biggest and most beautiful mansions on Queen Ann Hill. Unfortunately, it came without parents. So as with all youth left to time and themselves, Benner, and his many youthful friends taught each other to survive. As with all boys, the love of adventure and sports soon became all comforting and all important. Swimming found its place mainly because he was small, quick, and could stand the frigid temperatures of the icy Puget Sound.This love of the sport led him later to a swimming scholarship at Washington State University where he captained the varsity and excelled in the one-mile swim, in an event few else wanted to spend the long hours training for. Since the orphanage had taught him the philosophy of survival through opportunities, he moved on to become the freshman swimming coach at Washington State University, producing two winning seasons before moving to San Juan Capistrano, California, and its old Union High School. Here, he found his first look at a group of young swimmers amongst the surfers, smacking of rugged individualism. He soon learned: You don't teach them much of anything; they teach you. They were iron men, who lived for the ocean with all of its naturalism. Born to this ocean and equally toughened by it, they were the most natural athletes he had ever coached. They were full of life, with the word "failure" not in their vocabulary. Building his program around their talent and ability, Benner sweetened it with his own philosophy of, "Hard work does things too."These surfers became the foundation of the swimming teams of early San Clemente High School years. They also laid thoughts for much of his poetry about the ocean and surfers. Almost every poem was written about what these surfers, these colorful persevering athletes of the sea, had demonstrated to him over the years - plus a dash of his own adjectives thrown in from college days., Cork Hill Pr, 2004-06-30, 3, IRELAND,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but a mint unused CHRIST CHURCH OXFORD b/w armorial coat-of-arms illustrated adhesive bookplate to top,left-hand corner of ffe and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's printed price.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around super-imposed monochrome portrait and other subjects photographic illustrated dw/dj panels,with b/w lettering; and with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.IRELAND,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-319pp [paginated] includes illustrations list/table,an introduction,12 chapters+epilogue,16pp contemporary b/w - mainly autobiographical - photographs in 1 block, between pp160/1,notes,sources,acknowledgements and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and a contents list/table with a poem (by Stephen GWYNN) to it's reverse. Almost all the Irish men and women who took part in World War Two were volunteers - the greater proportion of them from the Irish Free State,a country that was officially neutral.Using personal interviews and memoirs, Richard Doherty provides a vivid account of their experiences.This is what the war was like for those who won decorations and also for the unsung heroes,men and women,service personnel,medics, chaplains, nurses . . . A page of Irish history,largely unwritten until now. Richard Doherty,writer and broadcaster,has published numerous articles and books on Irish military history.He has also researched and presented several special programmes for the BBC and UTV. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, IRELAND.DUBLIN.FOUR COURTS PRESS LTD.,1999., 5, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Hardcover. Good Condition. 22.4 x 14.4 x 2.4 cm. Library sticker on front cover, and ink stamps to endpapers, including withdrawn stamp. No dust jacket. Internally, clean and bright, with unmarked and uncreased pages. Bindings firm, spine intact. Otherwise in very good used condition. Publisher's note: These studies are connected by common underlying themes: the sense of Providence, the growing awareness of its loss in the nineteenth century, and the pressure on the ideal of Romantic love as that came increasingly to be treated as a substitute. Other questions are raised. Were Wordsworth's 'Lucy' poems simply Romantic fictions, or did they mask the memory of an actual youthful attachment? What was the story behind the secret message which F. W. H. Myers left with the Society for Psychical Research, hoping to transmit it after his death? And what was it about the young Cambridge men George Eliot met in 1872 that made them particularly attractive to her?--BOOK JACKET. Size: 22.4 x 14.4 x 2.4 cm. xv, 335 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Love in literature; Providence and government of God in literature; English literature; Parapsychology; Romanticism; England; Lucy (Fictitious character : Wordsworth); Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry), 1843-1901; ISBN: 0198184360. ISBN/EAN: 9780198184362. Add. Inventory No: 230321TRW030047. . 9780198184362, Clarendon Press, 1998, 2.5<
