Collected Prefaces

Collected Prefaces
Author: Nicholas Hagger
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2022-04-29
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1789042747

Nicholas Hagger's 55 books include innovatory works on literature, history, philosophy and international politics. In his first published literary work he revived the Preface, which had fallen into disuse after Wordsworth and Shelley. He went on to write Prefaces (sometimes called ‘Prologues’, ‘Introductions’ or ‘Introductory Notes’) for all his subsequent books. Collected Prefaces, a collection of 55 Prefaces (excluding the Preface to this book), sets out his thinking and the reader can follow the development of his philosophy of Universalism (of which he is the main exponent), his literary approach (particularly his combination of Romanticism and Classicism which he calls "neo-Baroque") and his metaphysical thinking. His Prefaces can be read as essays, and as in T.S. Eliot’s Selected Essays there is an interaction between adjacent Prefaces that brings an entirely new perspective to Hagger's works. These Prefaces cover an enormous range. Nicholas Hagger is a Renaissance man at home in many disciplines. His Universalism focuses on humankind’s relationship to the whole universe as reflected in seven key disciplines seen as wholes: the whole of literature, history, philosophy and the sciences, mysticism, religion, international politics and statecraft and world culture. Behind all the Prefaces is Hagger’s fundamental perception of the unity of the universe as the One and of humankind’s position in it. These Prefaces complement his Selected Letters, a companion volume also published by O-Books, and contain startling insights that illumine and send readers to the works the Prefaces introduce.

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. VI: Prefaces and Introductions

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. VI: Prefaces and Introductions
Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2008-06-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1439106231

Prefaces and Introductions, Volume VI of The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, brings together for the first time thirty-two introductions by Yeats to the works of such literary greats as William Blake, J.M. Synge, Lady Gregory, Oscar Wilde, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Lionel Johnson, and Rabindranath Tagore. The introductions, which span the Nobel laureate’s entire career, reflect the broad reach of Yeats’s literary and cultural interests. Always insightful and often charming, Prefaces and Introductions reveals the breadth of Yeats’s talent as essayist, critic, folklorist, and raconteur.

The Art of the Novel

The Art of the Novel
Author: Henry James
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2011-06-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0226392058

This collection of prefaces, originally written for the 1909 multi-volume New York Edition of Henry James’s fiction, first appeared in book form in 1934 with an introduction by poet and critic R. P. Blackmur. In his prefaces, James tackles the great problems of fiction writing—character, plot, point of view, inspiration—and explains how he came to write novels such as The Portrait of a Lady and The American. As Blackmur puts it, “criticism has never been more ambitious, nor more useful.” The latest edition of this influential work includes a foreword by bestselling author Colm Tóibín, whose critically acclaimed novel The Master is told from the point of view of Henry James. As a guide not only to James’s inspiration and execution, but also to his frustrations and triumphs, this volume will be valuable both to students of James’s fiction and to aspiring writers.

A Choice Collection of ... Prefaces, Lectures and Sermons, preached on the mountains and muirs of Scotland by ... James Renwick ... To which are added the form of the admission of ruling elders; a reply to Mr. Langlan's letter to G. Wotherspoon; and a testimony to the truths of God ... as is stated by the true Presbyterians of the Church of Scotland, etc

A Choice Collection of ... Prefaces, Lectures and Sermons, preached on the mountains and muirs of Scotland by ... James Renwick ... To which are added the form of the admission of ruling elders; a reply to Mr. Langlan's letter to G. Wotherspoon; and a testimony to the truths of God ... as is stated by the true Presbyterians of the Church of Scotland, etc
Author: James RENWICK (Presbyterian Minister.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 650
Release: 1804
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A Choice Collection of Very Valuable Prefaces, Lectures, and Sermons, Preached Upon the Mountains and Muirs of Scotland ... By ... James Renwick .. The Fourth Edition. To which are Added, the Form and Order of the Admission of Ruling Elders ; a Reply to Mr Langlan's Letter to Gavin Wotherspoon ; and a Testimony to the Truths of God ... By the Same Author

A Choice Collection of Very Valuable Prefaces, Lectures, and Sermons, Preached Upon the Mountains and Muirs of Scotland ... By ... James Renwick .. The Fourth Edition. To which are Added, the Form and Order of the Admission of Ruling Elders ; a Reply to Mr Langlan's Letter to Gavin Wotherspoon ; and a Testimony to the Truths of God ... By the Same Author
Author: James Renwick (Presbyterian Minister.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 616
Release: 1777
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