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Biography of Edward Marsh
by Christopher Hassall. 732 pgs.

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Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Chapter One: Death and Birth

Chapter Two: Mother and Son

Chapter Three: The Cambridge Observer

Chapter Four: Cambridge

Chapter Five: Transitional

Chapter Six: Late Victorian

Chapter Seven: Edwardian

Chapter Eight: The Beginning of Patronage

Chapter Nine: Georgian

Chapter Ten: Brooke Abroad I (may-September 1913)

Chapter Eleven: Brooke Abroad Ii (october 1913-June 1914)

Chapter Twelve: Towards Gallipoli

Chapter Thirteen: The End of an Epoch

Chapter Fourteen: Interlude

Chapter Fifteen: The Ministry of Munitions

Chapter Sixteen: Georgian in Decline

Chapter Seventeen: La Fontaine

Chapter Eighteen: Horace (january 1934-May 1941)

Chapter Nineteen: Dominique

Appendix I: Georgian Poetry 1911-1912 and The Critics

Appendix II: The Speaking of Dramatic Verse

Appendix III: Diabolization

Acknowledgements

Index
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A Number of People: A Book of Reminiscences
by Edward Marsh. 420 pgs.

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To the Not Impossible Reader

Chapter I: Family History -- My Mother -- Home Influence

Appendix to Chapter I

Chapter II: Education

Chapter III: Undergraduates

Chapter IV

Chapter V: Personalities I

Chapter VI: Office Desk

Chapter VII: The Lyttons

Chapter VIII: Private Secretary I

Chapter IX: The Pleasures of Life

Chapter X: Personalities II

Chapter XI: Private Secretary II

Chapter XII: Moving Accidents by Flood and Field

Chapter XIII: Rupert Brooke

Appendix I to Chapter XIII

Appendix II to Chapter XIII

Chapter XIV: Literary Diversions

Appendix to Chapter XIV

Chapter XV: Picture-Collecting

Chapter XVI: Theatre

Chapter XVII: Tweedledum

Chapter XVIII Private Secretary III

Index
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The Georgian Revolt, 1910-1922: Rise and Fall of a Poetic Ideal
by Robert H. Ross. 298 pgs.

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1. the Literary Scene: 1911

2. Sound and Fury

3. Harold Monro

4. Edward Marsh

5. Poetry in the Marketplace

6. Georgian Summer

7. War and the Georgians

8. the Literary Scene: 1918-1922

9. Decline and Fall

10. the Failure of Imagination

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

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A Treasury of the World's Great Letters: From Ancient Days to Our Own Time
by M. Lincoln Schuster. 566 pgs.

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In Praise of Letters

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Introduction

Part One: Letters of Long Ago [from 334 B.C. to A.D. 1675]

Alexander the Great And King Darius III Exchange Defiance for The Mastery of the World: [a Series of Letters]

Diogenes Declines to Render a Command Performance for Alexander The Great: [a Letter to Aristippus]

Paul the Apostle Exhorts the Corinthians With the Tongues of Men and Of Angels: [extracts from I Corinthians 1, 2, 7, 13, 16]

Acrippina, Nero's Mother, Pleads to Her Emperor-Son for Her Own Life

The Younger Pliny Asks the Emperor Trajan How to Arrest and Punish "The Depraved and Excessive Superstition" Of The Early Christians

Aurelian, Emperor of Rome, Orders Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, to Surrender, And She Defies Him: [an Exchange of Letters]

Saint Jerome Beholds the Decline and Fall Of Rome Before His Eyes: [a Letter to a Friend]

Heloise and Abelard Immortalize, in Their Learned And Passionate Letters, One of History's Enduring Love Stories: [an Exchange of Letters]

Christopher Columbus Reports His First Impressions of America: [a Letter to Gabriel Sanchez, Treasurer of King Ferdinand of Spain]

Eonardo Da Vinci Asks the Duke of Milan For a Job

Michelangelo Negotiates Terms with His Holiness the Pope: [a Letter to Maestro Giuliano, Architect of The Vatican]

Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn Exchange Endearments and Entreaties: [an Exchange of Letters]

Sir Walter Raleigh Bids Farewell to His Wife a Few Hours Before He Expects To Be Executed

Francis Bacon from the Tower of London Pleads for Mercy with King James I

Ninon De L'Enclos Tells the Marquis De SÉvignÉ What Makes Love So Dangerous

Blaise Pascal Asks a Colleague to Confirm A Scientific Prediction: [a Letter to PÉrier]

Aurangzeb, Emperor of Hindustan, Rebukes A Former Teacher for Inflicting Upon Him "Things . . . Hard to Understand And Very Easy to Forget": [a Letter to Mullah Sahe]

Mme De SÉvignÉ Tells the Tale of a Royal Supper at Chantilly: [a Letter to Her Daughter, Mme De Crignan]

Baruch Spinoza, Challenged by a Former Pupil to Prove That His Philosophy Is Not "A Mere Illusion and a Chimera,": [an Exchange of Letters with Albert Burgh]

Part Two: Letters of Not So Long Ago [from 1747 to 1896]

Lord Chesterfield Lays Down Some Precepts for His Natural Son

Samuel Johnson Spurns the Proffered Help Of the Earl of Chesterfield

Samuel Johnson Congratulates an Old Friend on an Ignominious Marriage: [a Letter to Hester Lynch Thrale]

Du Barry Makes a Business Proposition To An Admirer: [a Letter to M. Duval]

James Boswell Touches the Keys in Unison With Voltaire: [a Letter to His Friend William Johnson Temple]

Two Letters of Voltaire Written Fifty Years Apart: [addressed to James Boswell and Olympe Dunoyer]

The Loves, the Letters, The Wit and Wisdom Of Benjamin Franklin: [a Series]

Thomas Jefferson Prepares to Write The Declaration of Independence: [a Letter to His Friend William Fleming]

George Washington Answers His Critics In Congress and from a Cold, Bleak Hill At Valley Forge Defends His Naked And Distressed Troops

George Washington Spurns the Subtle Offer of a Crown: [a Letter to Colonel Nichola]

Thomas Paine Brands George Washington As Treacherous in Private Friendship And a Hypocrite in Public Life

Robespierre Promises Danton Devotion Unto Death

Joseph Priestley Returns Blessings For Curses in a Letter to His Neighbors Of Birmingham

The Loves and Letters Of Napoleon Bonaparte: [a Cycle of Correspondence, Chiefly With The Empress Josephine, the Countess Marie Walewska, and the Empress Marie Louise, From 1796 to 1814]

The Devotions and Despairs Of Ludwig Van Beethoven: [a Series of Letters to His "Immortal Be Loved" and His Brothers Karl and Johann]

Aaron Burr Challenges Alexander Hamilton to Meet Him on the Field Of Honor

Michael Faraday Apologizes for His Inability to Compose a Love Letter: [a Letter to Sarah Barnard]

The Loves and Letters Of Percy Bysshe Shelley: [a Series Covering Four Years]

Percy Bysshe Shelley Invites John Keats To Join Him in Italy

John Keats Acknowledges the Invitation To Visit Percy Bysshe Shelley at Pisa

John Keats Hesitates on the Threshold Of A Career in Business: [a Letter to His Sister Fanny]

John Keats Tells Fanny Brawne He Cannot Live Without Her

Lord Byron Tells the Countess Guiccioli That He Cannot Cease to Love Her

William Cullen Bryant Breaks the News To Mother

Victor Hugo Casts Himself Humbly at The Feet of AdÈle Foucher

Franz Schubert Humbly Petitions His Royal Highness for the Post of Assistant Conductor at the Imperial Court Of Vienna

Henry D. Thoreau Explains to Ralph Waldo Emerson That Divine Commodities Are Near and Cheap

The Love Letters Of Robert Browning And Elizabeth Barrett: [a Series]

Edgar Allan Poe Reveals the Secret Of: [a Letter to George Eveleth]

Dostoevsky Describes His Sensations When He Had but One Minute to Live: [a Letter to His Brother Mihail]

Three Typical Letters Of Abraham Lincoln: [to His Stepbrother, an Old Comrade, And Mrs. Bixby]

Ralph Waldo Emerson Greets Walt Whitman at the Beginning of a Great Career

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Implores Napoleon III to Pardon Victor Hugo

Thomas Babington Macaulay Peers into The Future and Predicts That the American Republic Will Be Laid Waste By Barbarians in the Twentieth Century: [a Letter to Henry S. Randall]

John Brown Bids Farewell to His Family The Night Before He is Executed

Thomas Huxley Strips Himself of the Hopes And Consolations of the Mass of Mankind: [a Letter to Charles Kingsley]

Richard Wagner Demands an Immediate Loan of Ten Thousand Francs From One of His Admirers: [an Exchange of Letters with Baron Robert Von Hornstein]

Friedrich Nietzsche Confides a Secret To Richard Wagner

John Stuart Mill Rescues His Greatest Rival In Philosophy, Herbert Spencer, From Impending Ruin

Charles Darwin is Overjoyed to See a Theory Almost Proved True: [a Letter to Alfred Russel Wallace]

Emily Dickinson Finds Ecstasy in the Mere Sense of Living: [a Letter to Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson]

Benjamin Disraeli Offers to Free Thomas Carlyle from Common Cares in The Sunset of His Life

Sarah Bernhardt Tells Victorien Sardou Why Paris is a Vast Desert of Desolation Without Him

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Receives an Involuntary Confession from His Benefactress, Nadejda Philaretovna Von Meck: [an Exchange of Letters]

Guy De Maupassant and Marie Bashkirtseff Intrigue Each Other's Curiosity: [an Exchange of Letters]

Bill Nye Becomes Postmaster of Laramie, Wyoming, and Helps the American Republic March Onward and Upward With the Arts: [a Letter to General Frank Hatton]

P. T. Barnum Offers General Ulysses S. Grant A Job

William Randolph Hearst, Fresh From Harvard, Seeks Fun, Fame, and Fortune With a Newspaper of His Own: [a Letter to His Father]

Mark Twain Refuses to Sanction a Dramatization of Tom Sawyer: [a Letter to Number 1365]

Robert Louis Stevenson Defends a Saint And Hero Who Tasted of Our Common Frailty: [an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. C. M. Hyde Of Honolulu]

Pierre Curie Asks Marie Sklodovska, A Former Governess and a Student Of Physics, to Be His Wife

Paul Gauguin and August Strindberg Compare Notes on Art, Barbarism, and Civilization: [an Exchance of Letters]

William James Discovers That He Has Omitted the Deepest Principle of Human Nature from His Textbook on Psychology: [a Letter to His Students at Radcliffe College]

Part Three: Letters of Yesterday and Today [from 1898 to 1937]

Émile Zola Challenges the President Of The French Republic to Restore Faith In Human Justice

Joseph Conrad Finds That Pages Accumulate and the Story Stands Still: [a Letter to Edward Garnett]

George Bernard Shaw And Ellen Terry Carry On A Romantic Correspondence For Twenty-Five Years: [a Series of Letters]

Henri PoincarÉ and Marie Curie Recommend Albert Einstein for a Professorship At Zurich Institute

Captain Robert Falcon Scott Tells the British Public That "These Rough Notes And Our Dead Bodies Must Tell The Tale"

Rupert Brooke Tells an English Friend About the Romantic Splendors of The South Seas: [a Letter to Edward Marsh]

D. H. Lawrence Advises a Friend on Love And Marriage: [a Letter to John Middleton Murry]

Leon Trotsky Warns an Old Socialist Comrade to Heed the Muted Rumble Of Approaching Events

Nicholas Ii, the Last Czar of Imperial Russia, Is Assured by His Wife, on the Eve Of The Revolution, That All is Well At Home

Lenin Warns the Communist Party That Stalin is Concentrating Too Much Power in His Own Hands: [lenin's Deathbed Testament]

Bartolomeo Vanzetti Bids Farewell To Dante Sacco on the Eve of His Execution

Christopher Morley Inspires the Tale of A Wayside Inn: [a Letter to T. A. Daly]

H. L. Mencken Admits to a Philosopher That God Has Treated Him with Vast Politeness: [a Letter to Will Durant]

Lion Feuchtwanger Addresses an Inquiry To the Nazi Occupant of His Confiscated House: [an Open Letter to Mr. X]

Thomas Mann Indicts the Hitler Regime For Its Secret and Open Crimes: [a Letter to the Dean of the Philosophical Faculty Of the University of Bonn]

Acknowledgments

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