Download or read book London Bridge Is Falling Down written by Peter Spier and published by Yearling Books. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates the singing game about London Bridge's falling down. Includes a history of the bridge and music.

Download or read book All Aboard the London Bus written by Patricia Toht and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come! Board the London Bus and see the London sights with us. At any time, hop off, explore! Then climb back on, and ride some more… As a family of four spend a day exploring London, fun, child-friendly poems introduce readers to our wonderful capital city, and all its secrets. Well-known landmarks like Buckingham Palace, Big Ben and the London Eye, plus inescapable features like rain and taking tea, all get Patty Toht's witty treatment. Non-fiction facts provide more information about the poetry subjects, while rising star Sam Usher brings them to life with his signature style and humour. This gorgeous celebration of London will be loved by both tourists and those who call the city home.

Download or read book London Bridge in Plague and Fire written by David Madden and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Like Dr. Frankenstein’s invented creature, the larger-than-life, flesh-and-blood characters of London Bridge in Plague and Fireare made from pieces of the dead past that are forged in the consciousness of an historian—himself a creation of history and of David Madden’s literary magic. Struck by the lightning bolt of the co-joined imaginations of Madden and his reader, the fabricated beings rise up and walk on London Bridge, and they have the audacity to speak for themselves in completely convincing and haunting voices.” —Allen Wier, author of Tehano For more than two thousand years, Old London Bridge evolved through many fragile wooden forms until it became the first bridge built of stone since the Roman invaders. With over two hundred houses and shops built directly upon the bridge, it was a wonder of the world until it was dismantled in 1832. In this stunningly original novel, Old London Bridge is as much a living, breathing character as its architect, the priest Peter de Colechurch, who began work on it in 1176, partly to honor Archbishop Thomas à Becket, murdered in Canterbury Cathedral. In 1665, the year of the Great Plague, Peter’s history is unknown, but Daryl Braintree, a young poet living on the bridge, resurrects him through inspired flights of imagination. As Daryl chronicles the history of the bridge and composes poems about it, he reads his work to his witty mistress, who prefers making love. Among other key characters is Lucien Redd, who as a boy was sexually brutalized by both Puritans and Cavaliers during the English Civil War before being kidnapped off London Bridge onto a merchant ship. Thus traumatized, he aspires to become Lucifer’s most evil disciple. Twenty years later, young Morgan Wood is forced into seafaring service to pay off his father’s debts; and, compelled by obsessive nostalgia for his early life on the bridge, he keeps a journal. Joining Morgan aboard ship, Lucien “befriends” him—to devastating effect. The shops and houses on the bridge survive both the Great Plague and Great Fire, believed to be God’s wrath upon sinful London. Fearing that God may next destroy the bridge and its eight hundred denizens, seven of its merchant leaders revert to a pagan appeasement ritual by selecting one of their virgin daughters for sacrifice. To enact their plan, they hire Lucien, who has returned to the bridge to burn it out of pure meanness. But as Lucien discovers, the chosen victim may be more Lucifer’s favorite than he is. Like his creation Daryl Braintree, David Madden employs diverse innovative ways to tell this complex, often shocking, but also lyrical story. The author of ten novels—including The Suicide’s Wife, Bijou, and most recently, Abducted by Circumstance and Sharpshooter—Madden has, with London Bridge in Plague and Fire, given us the most ambitious and imaginative work of his distinguished career.

Download or read book Old London bridge Illustr by A Ashley written by George Herbert B. Rodwell and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rock Paper Scissors written by Richard Osmond and published by Picador. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Osmond won the the Seamus Heaney Prize for his widely praised first collection, Useful Verses. His second, Rock Paper Scissors, presents an extraordinary, collaged response to the poet’s direct experience of the terrorist attack in London on June 3rd, 2017. Osmond has written a powerful and challenging collection of original poems representing the complex, fragmentary nature of traumatic experience. Interleaved with these are translated excerpts of two very different texts: the Anglo Saxon epic poem Beowulf, and the Qur'an. Osmond's translations from the Qur'an, in contrast to the stereotype of the Qur'an as a monolithic book full of judgement and proscription, focus on its vivid lyricism and the surprisingly riddling nature of its philosophy. In this unexpected context, the visceral and frightening excerpts from Beowulf echo with unnervingly modern resonances. Rock, Paper, Scissors takes a bold look at the problems of interpretation of texts and of events: in taking every opportunity to keep the complexity of his difficult subject intact, and in his refusal to simplify some of the most urgent questions of the age, Osmond has written a book of compelling importance.

Download or read book City of Verse written by Kit Ward and published by Prydain Press. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love exploring London? Love poetry? Then City of Verse: A London Poetry Trail is for you. Discover a new angle on the capital while spending time with some of its greatest writers. This guided walk through central London will take you to twenty-four sites associated with notable poets and poems. Explore the city’s literary past while visiting some of its most interesting places, from the famous to the lesser known. The trail begins at Shakespeare’s Globe in Southwark and ends at the former site of Gatehouse Prison by Westminster Abbey. Your companions on the journey include William Shakespeare, John Keats, and TE Hulme, along with twenty-one other poets, each with their unique take on the life of the city. Experience London in a new and distinctive way, and go exploring with City of Verse: A London Poetry Trail as your guide. Features Twenty-four poems selected from six hundred years of literature. Introductory notes on each place, poet, and poem. Full route directions, with GPS coordinates for each stop. Google Maps route map and directions available on-line and for download to your smartphone.

Download or read book Chronicles of London Bridge written by Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Hatred of Poetry written by Ben Lerner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--

Download or read book The Ballad of St Barbara and Other Verses written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Ballad of St. Barbara, and Other Verses" by G. K. Chesterton is a collection of religious verses and poems that beautifully represent Chesterton's faith. As a writer and philosopher, the writer manages to balance beautiful words, intellectual concepts, and a method of writing that is accessible to people both in and out of the ecclesiastical world.

Download or read book Two Bridges One Poem written by Osvaldo Tetaze-maia and published by Clube de Autores. This book was released on 2018-12-08 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the middle of the 60s, a North American businessman and his Realtor decided to buy the London Bridge that would be auctioned by the City of London, and then they would install it in their Real Estate venture in the middle of the Arizona Desert in the USA. This is a history of Entrepreneurship, romance, and adventure, where they bet all their chips to conclude one of the biggest real estate deals in the history facing several challenges and obstacles to dismantle the Bridge and transport it to Arizona.

Download or read book A Dictionary of British Folklore 1 written by George Laurence Gomme and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poems on the Underground written by Judith Chernaik and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wonderful new edition of Poems on the Underground is published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Underground in 2013. Here 230 poems old and new, romantic, comic and sublime explore such diverse topics as love, London, exile, families, dreams, war, music and the seasons, and feature poets from Sappho to Carol Ann Duffy and Wendy Cope, including Chaucer and Shakespeare, Milton, Blake and Shelley, Whitman and Dickinson, Yeats and Auden, Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott and a host of younger poets. It includes a new foreword and over two dozen poems not included in previous anthologies.

Download or read book The London Magazine Or Gentleman s Monthly Intelligencer written by and published by . This book was released on 1760 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ballad of St Barbara and Other Verses written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Book of Children s Games written by Constance Wakeford Long and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th 1884 written by John Ruskin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century, Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th, 1884 by John Ruskin

Download or read book The Satanic Verses written by Salman Rushdie and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “[A] torrent of endlessly inventive prose, by turns comic and enraged, embracing life in all its contradictions. In this spectacular novel, verbal pyrotechnics barely outshine its psychological truths.”—Newsday Rushdie's fifth and best-known novel, as relevant as ever—the metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations of two men after their plane explodes in a hijacking over the English Channel. One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is just the initial act in a magnificent odyssey that seamlessly merges the actual with the imagined. A book whose importance is eclipsed only by its quality, The Satanic Verses is a key work of our times. Praise for The Satanic Verses “Rushdie is a storyteller of prodigious powers, able to conjure up whole geographies, causalities, climates, creatures, customs, out of thin air.” —The New York Times Book Review “Exhilarating, populous, loquacious, sometimes hilarious, extraordinary . . . a roller-coaster ride over a vast landscape of the imagination.” —The Guardian "Fuelled by the author's roaring prose and negotiated via his own culturally divided self, the novel is a comedic wonder, at once silly and serious, generous and provocative. . . . One of the essential novels of the last century." —The Globe and Mail