Thursday, March 31, 2011

Roman Frederick Starzl

Roman Frederick Starzl

Roman Frederick Starzl (1899 - 1976) was an American author. He was the father of Thomas Starzl. His writing is largely forgotten now, but he was called a "master" by the pioneer of space opera E. E. Smith. Starzl's Interplanetary Flying Patrol, in The Hornets of Space, may have influenced Smith's Triplanetary Patrol, later Galactic Patrol. There is an extensive interview with Thomas Starzl about his father in Eric Leif Davin's Pioneers of Wonder.



[In The Orbit Of Saturn]


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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Cyril M Kornbluth

Cyril M Kornbluth (1923-1958)

Cyril M. Kornbluth (July 23, 1923 March 21, 1958) was an American science fiction author and a notable member of the Futurians. He used a variety of pen-names, including C. M. Kornbluth, Cecil Corwin, S. D. Gottesman, Edward J. Bellin, Kenneth Falconer, Walter C. Davies, Simon Eisner, and Jordan Park. The "M" in Kornbluth's name may have been in tribute to his wife, Mary Byers; Frederik Pohl confirmed the lack of any actual middle name in at least one interview.



[The Adventurer]


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Arthur Schnitzler

Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931)

Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931)

Dr. Arthur Schnitzler (May 15, 1862, Leopoldstadt, Vienna - October 21, 1931, Vienna) was an Austrian author and dramatist.



[Der Grune Kakadu | Bertha Garlan | Casanova Homecoming | Casanovas Heimfahrt | Der Mrder | Der Schleier Der Pierrette | Die Griechische Tnzerin | The Dead Are Silent | The Lonely Way Intermezzo Countess Mizzie | Der Morder | Reigen hands Around | The Lonely Way]


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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

John Alexander Stewart

John Alexander Stewart (1846-1933)

John Alexander Stewart (19 October 1846 27 December 1933) was a Scottish writer, educator and philosopher. He was a university professor and classical lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford from 1875 to 1883, emeritus professor of moral philosophy at Oxford and a professorial fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford from 1897 to his retirement in 1927. Throughout his academic career, he was an editor and author of works on Aristotle and considered one of the foremost experts on the subject. His best known books were Notes on the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle (1892) and The Myths of Plato (1905).



[Elements Of Gaelic Grammar]

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Fletcher Pratt

Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956)

Murray Fletcher Pratt (18971956) was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and history, particularly noted for his works on naval history and on the American Civil War.



[Danger | The City Of The Living Dead | The Octopus Cycle]

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781)

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781)

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (22 January 1729 - 15 February 1781) was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature. He is widely considered by theatre historians to be the first dramaturg.



[Ausgewhlte Fabeln | Ausgewhlte Gedichte | Der Freigeist | Der Junge Gelehrte | Die Erziehung Des Menschengeschlechts | Die Juden | Emilia Galotti | Gesprche Fr Freimaurer | Laokoon | Lieder Von Lessing | Minna Von Barnhelm | Miss Sara Sampson | Nathan Der Weise | Nathan The Wise | Nathan Viisas | Oden | Philotas]


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Elizabeth Oakes Smith

Elizabeth Oakes Smith

Elizabeth Oakes Smith

Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1806-1893) was a poet, fiction writer, editor, lecturer, and womens rights activist whose career spanned six decades, from the 1830s to the 1880s. Most well- known at the start of her professional career for her poem "The Sinless Child" which appeared in the Southern Literary Messenger in 1842, her reputation today rests on her feminist writings, including "Woman and Her Needs," a series of essays published in the New York Tribune between 1850 and 1851 that argued for womens spiritual and intellectual capacities as well as womens equal rights to political and economic opportunities, including rights of franchise and higher education.



[Heloise To Abelard A Sonnet]


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Fritz Leiber

Fritz Leiber (1910-1992)

Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. (December 24, 1910 September 5, 1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also an expert chess player and a champion fencer.



[What He Doing In There]

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Cecil Street

Cecil Street

Cecil John Charles Street, MC, OBE, (1884 - January 1965), known as CJC Street and John Street, began his military career as an artillery officer in the British army. During the course of World War I, he became a propagandist for MI7, in which role he held the rank of Major. After the armistice, he alternated between Dublin and London during the Irish War of Independence as Information Officer for Dublin Castle, working closely with Lionel Curtis. He later earned his living as a prolific writer of detective novels.



[A Forest Hearth A Romance Of Indiana In The Thirties | Dorothy Vernon Of Haddon Hall | The Touchstone Of Fortune | When Knighthood Was In Flower | Yolanda Maid Of Burgandy]


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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

William Henry Davenport Adams

William Henry Davenport Adams

William Henry Davenport Adams (1828 1891), was an English writer and journalist of the 19th century, notable for a number of his publications.



[By Ways In Book Land]

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Annie Adams Fields

Annie Adams Fields

Annie Adams Fields

Annie Adams Fields (June 6, 1834 - January 5, 1915) was a United States writer.



[Authors And Friends]


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Lew Rockwell

Lew Rockwell (1944-now)

Lew Rockwell (1944-now)

Llewellyn Harrison Rockwell, Jr. (born July 1, 1944, Boston), widely known as Lew Rockwell, is an American libertarian political commentator, activist, proponent of the Austrian School of economics, and chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.



[Gardening Indoors And Under Glass | Home Vegetable Gardening]


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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876)

Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876)

Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (30 May 1814 - 1 July 1876) was a well-known Russian revolutionary and theorist of collectivist anarchism.



[Dios Y El Estado | Estatismo Y Anarquia]


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Ernest Renan

Ernest Renan

Ernest Renan (28 February 1823 2 October 1892) was a French philosopher and writer, devoted to his native province of Brittany. He is best known for his influential historical works on early Christianity and his political theories.



[Recollections Of My Youth | Souvenirs Denfance Et De Jeunesse | The Life Of Jesus]


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Monday, March 14, 2011

Henri Grgoire

Henri Grgoire

Henri Grgoire title=

Henri Grgoire was an eminent scholar of the Byzantine Empire, virtually the founder of Byzantine studies in Belgium. Grgoire spent most of his teaching career at the Universit Libre de Bruxelles. In 1938, he taught at the New School for Social Research and during the Second World War, joined the cole libre des hautes tudes at the New School. He was the editor of four journalsByzantion, Nouvelle Clio, Annuaire de l'Institut de Philologie et d'Histoire Orientales et Slaves, and Flambeauand published prolifically: by 1953 he had 575 titles in his bibliography. Grgoire is especially remembered for his work on medieval epic poetry, notably Digenis Akritas.



[De La Littrature Des Ngres]

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Guillaume Apollinaire

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) title=

Wilhelm Albert Wodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire was a French poet, playwright, and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother. Among the foremost poets of the early 20th century, he is credited with coining the word Surrealism and writing one of the earliest works described as surrealist, the play The Breasts of Tiresias (1917, used as the basis for a 1947 opera). Two years after being wounded in World War I, he died in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 at age 38.



[Alcools | Les Onze Mille Verges | Les Trois Don Juan | Lhrsiarque Et Cie | Memoirs Of A Young Rakehell]

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Hugh Chisholm

Hugh Chisholm (1866-1924)

Hugh Chisholm (22 February 1866 29 September 1924) was a British journalist, and editor of the 11th and 12th editions of the Encyclopdia Britannica. He was born in London, a son of Henry Williams Chisholm, Warden of the Standards at the Board of Trade. Hugh Chisholm was educated at Felsted School and Christ Church, Oxford, read for the Bar and was called to the Middle Temple in 1892. Chisholm worked for The St James's Gazette as assistant editor from 1892 and was appointed editor in 1897. He moved in 1899 to The Standard as chief leader-writer and moved in 1900 to The Times, to act as co-editor with Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace and President Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale University on preparation of the seven volumes forming the 10th edition of the Encyclopdia Britannica. In 1903 he became editor for the 11th edition (1910-1911). Chisholm had been suggested as replacement as Editor of The Times as an alternative to Dawson, and in 1913, following his return from America overseeing the printing of The Britannica Year-Book, he was appointed day editor. In August 1913 he was appointed a director of the company. He was financial editor throughout World War I, resigning in 1920 when he embarked on the editorship of the three volumes forming the 12th edition of Encyclopdia Britannica, published in 1922. Grace Chisholm was his sister.



[Desert Conquest | The Boss Of Wind River | The Land Of Strong Men]

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington (1869-1946)

Booth Tarkington (1869-1946)

Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once.



[Beasley Christmas Party | Cherry | Monsieur Beaucaire | The Gibson Upright | The Man From Home | Mrs Protheroe]


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W C Firebaugh

W C Firebaugh

W. C. Firebaugh was the author of two works on the history of inns and taverns, and also of a fine English translation of Petronius's Satyricon, the fragmentary realistic novel of low life under the Roman Empire. The translation was published in 1922 in New York, in a very expensive ($30) limited edition, by Horace Liveright, founder of the Modern Library. Like earlier English translations, but more completely, Firebaugh's Satyricon includes the spurious supplements devised by various early scholars and forgers in an attempt to round out the fragmentary story. Firebaugh was however careful to distinguish all these supplements from the real translated text. His is still the only English translation of the supplement by Jos Marchena, which, because of its obscenity, had previously been printed only in the original Latin. The 1923 publication includes a sequence of 100 etchings by the Australian artist Norman Lindsay, originally used in the even rarer 1910 Satyricon edited by Stephen Gaselee. The original text, the etchings, and the Marchena supplement were all arguably pornographic by the strict standards of English-language publishing in the 1920s. John S. Sumner, secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, obtained a copy before publication and accused Liveright of selling obscene material directed to the public. After a celebrated trial the case was dismissed by the New York court. Four years after the initial publication of Firebaugh's Satyricon, a version adapted for a general market was published by Liveright in 1927. It was edited by Charles Whibley.



[Satyricon Of Petronius Arbiter | The Satyricon Of Petronius Illustrated V1 | The Satyricon Of Petronius Illustrated V2 | The Satyricon Of Petronius Illustrated V3 | The Satyricon Of Petronius Illustrated V4 | The Satyricon Of Petronius Illustrated V5 | The Satyricon Of Petronius Illustrated V6 | The Satyricon Of Petronius Illustrated V7]


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Frank R Stockton

Frank R Stockton

Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century. Stockton avoided the didactic moralizing, common to children's stories of the time, instead using clever humor to poke at greed, violence, abuse of power and other human foibles, describing his fantastic characters' adventures in a charming, matter-of-fact way in stories like "The Griffin and the Minor Canon" (1885) and "The Bee-Man of Orn" (1887), which was published in 1964 in an edition illustrated by Maurice Sendak. His most famous fable is "The Lady, or the Tiger" (1882), about a man sentenced to an unusual punishment for having a romance with a king's beloved daughter. Taken to the public arena, he is faced with two doors, behind one of which is a hungry tiger that will devour him. Behind the other is a beautiful lady-in-waiting, whom he will have to marry, if he finds her. While the crowd waits anxiously for his decision, he sees the princess among the spectators, who points him to the door on the right. The lover starts to open the door and... the story ends abruptly there. Did the princess save her love by pointing to the door leading to the lady-in-waiting, or did she prefer to see her lover die rather than see him marry someone else That discussion hook has made the story a staple in English classes in American schools, especially since Stockton was careful never to hint at what he thought the ending would be (according to Hiram Collins Haydn in The Thesaurus of Book Digests, ISBN 0-517-00122-5). He also wrote a sequel to the story, "The Discourager of Hesitancy".



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Edith Birkhead

Edith Birkhead

Edith Birkhead was a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol and a Noble Fellow at the University of Liverpool. She wrote a pioneering work on Gothic literature: The Tale of Terror (1921). This work described the fascination with supernatural fiction in English literature from the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto in 1764 to Charles Maturin's 'Melmoth the Wanderer' in 1820 on to modern times.



[The Tale Of Terror]


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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Charles Warren Stoddard

Charles Warren Stoddard

Charles Warren Stoddard

Charles Warren Stoddard was an American author. He was descended in a direct line from Anthony Stoddard of England, who settled at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1639. While he was still a child his parents moved to New York City, where they lived until 1855, when they migrated to San Francisco, California. In 1857 he returned alone to New York, lived with his grandparents for two years, and then rejoined his family in San Francisco. In a short time he began writing verses, which he sent anonymously to a local newspaper. They met with great success and were later published with the modest title Poems by Charles Warren Stoddard. Poor health compelled him to give up his plans for a college education. He tried the stage, but soon realized that such a life was not his calling. In 1864 he visited the South Sea Islands and from there wrote his Idyls letters which he sent to a friend who had them published in book form. "They are," as William Dean Howells said, "the lightest, sweetest, wildest, freshest things that were ever written about the life of that summer ocean. " He made four other trips to the South Sea Islands, and gave his impressions in Lazy Letters from Low Latitudes and The Island of Tranquil Delights. Several times he visited Molokai, and became well acquainted with Father Damien, the Apostle to the Lepers, and a Catholic saint as of 2009, and wrote his interesting little book, The Lepers of Molokai, which, with Stevenson's famous letter, did much to establish Father Damien's true position in public esteem. In 1867, soon after his first visit to the South Sea Islands, he was received into the Catholic Church, for which he had a most tender devotion. The story of his conversion he has told in a small book interestingly written: A Troubled Heart and How it was Comforted. Of this book he has said: "Here you have my inner life all laid bare. " In 1873 he started on a long tour as special correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle. His commission was a roving one, without restrictions of any kind. He was absent for five years, during which he traveled over Europe and went as far east as Palestine and Egypt. He sent considerable matter to his newspaper, much of which was never reprinted, though some of it was among his best work. Around 1880, Stoddard was co-editor of the Overland Monthly with Bret Harte and Ina Coolbrith. In 1885, having decided to settle down, he accepted the chair of English literature in the University of Notre Dame, Indiana; but owing to ill-health he soon resigned. The same reason caused him to resign a corresponding position which he held in the Catholic University, Washington, D. C., from 1889 to 1902. In a short time he moved to Cambridge, Mass., intending to devote himself exclusively to literary work. A serious and almost fatal illness interfered with his plans, yet he was not idle. He put forth his Exits and Entrances, a book of essays and sketches which he called his favourite work, probably because it told of his intimate friend Robert Louis Stevenson and of others among his host of literary acquaintances. At this time he also wrote his only novel, For the Pleasure of His Company, of which he said, "Here you have my Confessions. " So strictly biographical are most of his writings that Stoddard hoped by supplying a few missing links to enable the reader to trace out the whole story of his life. In 1905 he returned to California and settled in Monterey with a hope of recovering his health. He lingered on till 1909, when he died in his sixty-sixth year. To superficial observers he was a man of contradictions. He was essentially Bohemian, but of the higher type, a man who could not resist the call of the far-away land, his home, as he himself said, being always under his hat. And yet he was a mystic and a recluse even in his travels. "Imaginative and impressionable", two epithets which he applied to his South Sea friends, are particularly appropriate to Stoddard himself. Stoddard has been discussed to be homosexual, since he praised the South Sea folk's receptiveness to homosexual liaisons, and lived in friendships with men. From San Francisco late in 1866, Stoddard sent his newly published Poems to Herman Melville, along with news that in Hawaii he had found no traces of Melville. A homosexual who had written even more fervently to Walt Whitman, Stoddard had been excited by Typee, finding the Kory-Kory character so stimulating that he wrote a story celebrating the sort of male friendships to which Melville had more than once alluded. From the poems Stoddard sent, Melville may have sensed no homosexual undercurrent, and the extant draft of his reply in January 1867 is noncommittal. That charm of his traits which may be described as "sweetness, peacefulness, tenderness, gentleness" he imparted to his writings. Noted English authors have given the highest praise to some of his work, and have taken to task the American public for their lack of appreciation of him. Besides the books already mentioned he wrote: Summer Cruising in the south Seas (1874); Marshallah, a Flight into Egypt (1885); A Trip to Hawaii (1885); In the Footprints of the Padres (1892); Hawaiian Life (1894); Saint Anthony, The Wonder-Worker of Padua (1896); A Cruise under the Crescent (1898); Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska (1899); Father Damien, a Sketch (1903); With Staff and Scrip (1904); Hither and Yon; The Confessions of a Reformed Poet (1907); The Dream Lady (1907).



[Murder Music]


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Monday, March 7, 2011

Catherine Sinclair

Catherine Sinclair

Catherine Sinclair (17 April 1800 - 6 August 1864) was a Scottish writer. She was born at Thurso Castle, Caithness, Scotland to Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet and Diana Macdonald. Catherine died unmarried. A monument was erected to her memory in Edinburgh's New Town.



[Holiday House]


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Sunday, March 6, 2011

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg title=

Carl Sandburg (January 6, 1878 - July 22, 1967) was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat."



[Cornhuskers | Rootabaga Stories | Chicago Poems | Smoke And Steel]

A Charles Muller

A Charles Muller


[Chips From A German Workshop V5 | Chips From A German Workshop Vol Iii | India What Can It Teach Us | My Autobiography]

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Concha Espina

Concha Espina

Mara de la Concepcin Jesusa Basilisa Espina y Garca, short form Concha Espina, was a Spanish writer born in Santander, Cantabria, Spain in 1869. She died in Madrid, Spain, in 1955. Her best known novel is called La nia de Luzmela and describes life in a Cantabrian village. A Madrid metro station of line number 9 is called Concha Espina.



[La Nia De Luzmela | La Nina De Luzmela]


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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Stphane Mallarm

Stphane Mallarm (1842-1898)

Stphane Mallarm (18 March 1842 9 September 1898), whose real name was tienne Mallarm, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Dadaism, Surrealism, and Futurism.



[Lart Pour Tous]


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Christian Fuerchtegott Gellert

Christian Fuerchtegott Gellert

Christian Frchtegott Gellert (July 4, 1715 - December 13, 1769) was a German poet, one of the forerunners of the golden age of German literature that was ushered in by Lessing.



[Die Zaertlichen Schwestern | Fabeln Und Erzaehlungen]


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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Al Clouston

Al Clouston

Alwyn Vey Clouston was a Canadian storyteller and humourist known as "Uncle Al. " He was popular at conventions during the time he worked as a travelling businessman and owner of John Clouston Ltd of St. John's Newfoundland. He retired in 1975 and became a best-selling author of comedy books. IN 1980, his comdedy album Cinderelly was nominated for a Canadian Juno Award. http://www. metrolyrics. com/1980-juno-awards. html Albums included "Spinn'Yarns, Come 'er till I tell You, and Cinderelly" He married Ida Bridden at St. John's Topsail Anglican Church on November 25, 1933, and they remained together until her death. Clouston is survived by their 2 children (Carol Ann and Ian Bridden; died 2008), 4 grandchildren (Nancy, Doug, John, and Elizabeth, and 5 great-grandchildren. He was 94. Alwyn was the son of John Clouston, grandson of Thomas Clouston, great-grandson of John Clouston. Almost Certainly related to Brian Clouston, Sir Edward Clouston, 1st Baronet, Storer Clouston and William Alexander Clouston as the surname Clouston is exclusive to descendants of Haakon Harvardson Klo, from whom the name derives.



[Book Of Wise Sayings]


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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Arthur Mee

Arthur Mee (1875-1943)

Arthur Mee (21 July 1875 - 27 May 1943) was a British writer, journalist and educator. He is best known for The Harmsworth Self-Educator, The Children's Encyclopaedia, The Children's Newspaper, and The King's England. He produced other works, usually with a patriotic tone, especially on the subjects of history or the countryside.



[The World Greatest Books Vol Xii | The World Greatest Books Volume 19 | The World Greatest Books Vol I]


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Charles Mair

Charles Mair

Charles Mair title=

Charles Mair (21 September 1838 - 7 July 1927) was a Canadian poet and fervent nationalist noted for his organisation of the Canada First movement and his role opposing the provisional government of Louis Riel during the Red River Rebellion of 1869-1870 and during the North-West Rebellion of 1885. Mair was a Freemason The modern Canadian critic Alan Filewood wrote of the political and philosophical ideas expressed by Mair in his "Tecumseh": Mair's projection of Canadian nationhood is embodied in the character of Lefroy, a Byronesque poet who flees civilization to seek solace in nature's genius. He learns - tragically - from the British General Brock that natural law finds its outward form in the monarchic principle, and from the Indian chieftain Tecumseh that nature must be defended against the perversion of American materialism. The dying Tecumseh legitimizes the proto-(Anglo) Canadians as the natural guardians of the land, and Canadian manhood finds mature expression in a race of armed poets.(... ) Mair looked to the day when the dominions would assume the responsibilities of adulthood: Then shall a whole family of young giants stand 'Erect, unbound, at Britain's side-' her imperial offspring oversea, the upholders in the far future of her glorious tradition, or, should exhaustion ever come, the props and supports of her declining years.


G Mair's Books:


[English Literature Modern]


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