Download or read book The Burns Country Classic Reprint written by Charles S. Dougall and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Burns Country "I have no dearer aim," said Burns, "than to make leisurely pilgrimages through Caledonia; to sit on the fields of her battles; to wander on the romantic banks of her rivers; and to muse on the stately towers or venerable ruins, once the honoured abodes of her heroes." This volume is the result of such leisurely pilgrimages as Burns desired to make. I have wandered on the banks of the rivers and streams which owe much of their romance to him; I have visited his homes and haunts in Ayrshire and Nithsdale; and I have picked up, on the way, stories of himself and his friends, and facts and traditions concerning the people who lived and fought and suffered in his country. The land of Burns can also claim to be the land of Bruce and Wallace. It was the home of Lollards and Covenanters; it witnessed centuries of feudal strife; Gait and Boswell, Ainslie and Cunningham, Burns and Scott, are among those who have invested it with the charm of literary associations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Country Music written by Dayton Duncan and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich and colorful story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the twentieth century--based on the upcoming eight-part film series to air on PBS in September 2019 This gorgeously illustrated and hugely entertaining history begins where country music itself emerged: the American South, where people sang to themselves and to their families at home and in church, and where they danced to fiddle tunes on Saturday nights. With the birth of radio in the 1920s, the songs moved from small towns, mountain hollers, and the wide-open West to become the music of an entire nation--a diverse range of sounds and styles from honky tonk to gospel to bluegrass to rockabilly, leading up through the decades to the music's massive commercial success today. But above all, Country Music is the story of the musicians. Here is Hank Williams's tragic honky tonk life, Dolly Parton rising to fame from a dirt-poor childhood, and Loretta Lynn turning her experiences into songs that spoke to women everywhere. Here too are interviews with the genre's biggest stars, including the likes of Merle Haggard to Garth Brooks to Rosanne Cash. Rife with rare photographs and endlessly fascinating anecdotes, the stories in this sweeping yet intimate history will captivate longtime country fans and introduce new listeners to an extraordinary body of music that lies at the very center of the American experience.
Download or read book The Genius and Character of Burns Classic Reprint written by R a Neal Mick P L R a Neal Mick R a Neal Mick P L Wilson Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Genius, and Character of Burns Burns is by far the greatest poet that ever sprung from the bosom of the people, and lived and died in an humble condition. Indeed, no country in the world but Scotland could have produced such a man; and he will be for ever regarded as these glorious representative of the genius of his country. He was born a poet, if ever man was, and to his native genius alone is owing the perpetuity of his fame. For he manifestly had never very deeply studied poetry as an art, nor reasoned much about its principles, nor looked abroad with the wide ken of intellect for objects and subjects on which to pour out his inspiration. The condition of the peasantry of Scotland, the happiest, perhaps, that providence ever allowed to the children of labor, was? not surveyed and speculated on by him as the field of poetry, but as the field of his own existence; and he chronicled the events that passed there, not merely as food for his imagination as a poet, but as food for his heart as a man. Hence, when inspired to compose poetry, poetry came gushing up from the well of his human affections, and he had nothing more to do, than to pour it. like streams irrigating a meadow, in many a cheerful tide over the drooping flowers and fading verdure of life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Book of Robert Burns Vol 1 of 3 written by Charles Rogers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Book of Robert Burns, Vol. 1 of 3: Genealogical and Historical Memoirs of the Poet His Associates and Those Celebrated in His Writings Robert burns came forth with a special mission to his country and to humanity, by illustrating the doctrine of the Divine Father hood, and the consequent brotherhood of man also by enforcing the duty of cherishing the virtues of sincerity, sympathy, and benevolence. Wherein in the exercise of his great function he struggled and fell short, and wherein he triumphed, it is our chief object in the present work to denote or signalize. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Captain Otway Burns and His Ship Snap Dragon written by USMC, retired, Jack, Gysgt Robinson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-02-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Paper Back Cover) Captain Otway Burns and his ship Snap Dragon explores the legends, facts, and misguided information of Captain Otway Burns' life. As a native son of southeastern North Carolina he was a merchant sea Captain, highly successful War of 1812 Privateer, noted businessman, and an inventive ship builder. Later in life Burns was a strong state legislator, but like most of his life, his service to his state and country was controversial. Myth and fact have merged since Captain Burns' death in 1850. Using fragments of information along with long forgotten documents, compiled with material gained from newly located direct descendents, this book attempts to capture a more accurate description of Captain Burns and his adventurous life. If you enjoy good stories of Tall Ship Naval battles, or are intrigued with local legends, this book is for you.
Download or read book The Auld Ayrshire of Robert Burns Classic Reprint written by T. E. Henderson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Auld Ayrshire of Robert Burns The rude clay cottage of an obscure country clachan, was, thus, a most un likely place for the birth of a poet so world-famed as Burns; and it was un likely to the verge of incredibility that poetic achievements of such merit should be accomplished by one who was still a toiling peasant. Of course, with the im pediments which he shared in common with peasants in general, he possessed certain advantages in being a Scottish peasant; and he was also the son of an ex ceptionally intelligent father; but, making allowance for special favouring influences, there is in his triumph a certain unique ness that awakens in a peculiar manner both our sympathy and our wonder. How ever we may account for that triumph, it must be held to betoken an immense native endowment, a quite exceptional irrepressibility. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns Classic Reprint written by Robert Burns and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns Several reviewers, who have done more than, justice to the editor's labours generally, appear to have misconceived his meaning in defend ing the complete reproduction of all the poems, and have discovered some inconsistency in his doing so, after the statement made in his preface, that none of those poems containing objectionable passages were included by the poet in the editions published under his own superintendence. The editor believed he did right in reprinting in full all the poems and songs which had already been given to the world, in a more or less fragmentary state, by previous editors. The original impropriety of printing many of them cannot be questioned; but as they have now become public property, they must find a place in every edition of the poet's works which pretends to completeness. It would have been an easy matter to have introduced several pieces of the same class, which were undoubtedly written by the poet, and which have never appeared in any edition of his works; but to have done this would only have been to repeat the offence against good taste and the memory of the poet which his friends committed when they printed all the mss. Which happened to be in their possession at the time of his death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Poetical Works of Robert Burns Classic Reprint written by Robert Burns and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Robert Burns Lar not men of re ection think it a super uous labour to trace the rise and progress ofa character like Robert Burns. Born in the condition ofa peasant, he rose by the force ofhis own mind into distinction and in uence; and in his works he has exhibited what are so rarely found, the charms of original genius. With a deep knowledge of the human heart, his poetry exhibits high powers of imagination: it displays, and as it were embalms', the peculiar manners of his country; and it may be considered as a monument, not to his name only, but to the expiring genius of an ancient and once independent nation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book A Primer of Burns Classic Reprint written by William A. Craigie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Primer of Burns These pages are mainly intended to supply the reader of Burns with such facts concerning his life and works, as are most necessary for the understanding of his poetry. These facts have been chiefly derived from the editions by Chambers and Scott Douglas; the latter's arrangement of the poems has also been followed in tracing the development of the poet's work. The bibliography has been selected from various sources, and it is hoped that no work of importance has been omitted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Songs of the Grey Country Classic Reprint written by Joan Rundall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-23 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Songs of the Grey Country And the grassy uplands gleaming In the twilight - starred with dew, Till you hear the brown burns brawling 0'er the grey rocks, and the scream 0f the peewit and the calling 0f the hill-wind, through your dream. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns written by Robert Burns and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns: With an Original Memoir The descriptive improprieties are but the momentary ex. Cesses of a healthy and vigorous nature, which, though prone to err, was seldom designedly gross or wicked. Besides, the censorious critics have too often forgotten his services on the side of purity. It ought to be remembered that he found the Scottish Muse a dirty, ribald bawd, and that he made her presentable everywhere. But for him the ancient lyric poetry of our country would at the present day have been all but dead and forgotten - he breathed through it the spirit of his own genius, and it is now as imperishable as the more immediate of his creations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Sylvander and Clarinda written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sylvander and Clarinda: The Love Letters of Robert Burns and Agnes M'lehose We have made a somewhat radical departure from our previous current arrangement, in this volume; inasmuch as we have lifted The Poet's Correspondence with Clarinda and With George Thomson entirely out of the chronological sequence of his works, and treated them as distinct episodes, rounded and complete in themselves, - adding to these his Remarks on Scottish Ballads and Songs, his two Commonplace Books and the record of the Glenriddell MSS., now in the Atheaeum Library' Liverpool. The advantage of this arrangement will be manifest, because it simplifies the current stride in the record of his writings, poetry and prose, as carefully traced in the other five volumes, and enables us to give these two important episodes, of love-making with Clarinda, and song-making for Thomson, a rounded history and a perfect setting by themselves. We have, in order to make the Thomson correspondence more valuable and attractive, copied from his collection the music, which he published in his original work, of all the songs published, written or revised by Burns. In a work treated in chronological order, the difficulty of dealing with the Common-place Books which, of course, duplicate many of his earlier pieces, was a stumbling-block to our satisfaction, but, by placing them in kindred company with the Bard's Remarks On Scottish Ballads And Songs, in this volume of "Specialities." has relieved our difficulty, and, we believe, will give satisfaction to our readers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book The Black Church written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. “Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again “Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth—as it is in heaven.” —Jon Meacham, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and The Black Box, and one of our most important voices on the African American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America. For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity—an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today’s political landscape. At road’s end, and after Gates’s distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative—as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community’s most critical personal and social issues. In a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Long after slavery’s formal eradication, church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists continued, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. The past often isn’t even past—Dylann Roof committed his slaughter in the Mother Emanuel AME Church 193 years after it was first burned down by white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, following a thwarted slave rebellion. But as Gates brilliantly shows, the Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the heart of the Black political struggle, and it has produced many of the Black community’s most notable leaders. At the same time, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities, regardless of race, sex, or gender. Still, as a source of faith and refuge, spiritual sustenance and struggle against society’s darkest forces, the Black Church has been central, as this enthralling history makes vividly clear.
Download or read book Works of Robert Burns Vol 1 of 4 written by Allan Cunningham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Works of Robert Burns, Vol. 1 of 4: With His Life With something of hope and fear, I aj'er this work to my country. I have endeavoured to relate the checgueredfor tunes, delineate the character, and trace the Illustrious Peas ant with candor and accuracy his farming speculati - excise schemes - political feelings and poetic musings are discussed with a fulness not common to biography and his sharp lampoons and personal sallies are alluded to with all possible tenderness to the living and respect for the dead In writing the Poet's Life I have availed myself of his un published journals, private letters, manuscript verses, and of well-authenticated anecdotes and traits of character sup plied by his friends; and I have arranged his works as much as might be in the order of their composition, and ii lustrated them with such notes, critical, historical, and bio graphical, as seemed necessary. Of verse, one hundred and odd pieces will be found in this edition, more'than Cur rie's octavo contains. The number of letters, too, are ma terially increased - but nothing is admitted which bears not the true Burns' stamp. The embellishments are of high merit: the portrait of the Poet has called forth the commen dation of several who had the honor of his acquaintance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Works of Robert Burns written by Robert Burns and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Burns written by J. Logie Robertson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Burns: Selected Poems The Glossary, it is believed, is full; it is as correct as I have been able to make it. The derivation of the principal words has been given only where it seemed safe, or at least reasonable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Souvenir of Robert Burns written by George W. Pettit and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Souvenir of Robert Burns: Fragments Culled Amid the Scenes of His Chequered Life Great geniuses belong to certain epochs of the world's history, and not to any particular nation or century. They are the result of the accumulated knowledge, the sentiments, and the aspirations of preceeding generations. They are claimed by and justly belong to the world at large, and not exclusively to the country which gave them birth. By the expression of universal sentiments, they give that touch of nature which makes the whole world akin and which not only serves to unite more closely the inhabitants of their own country, but nations which differ widely on almost every vital principle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
