1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910820972903321

Autore

Brooks David

Titolo

Open House / / David Brooks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Queensland, Australia : , : University of Queensland Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-7022-5491-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (167 p.)

Disciplina

814

Soggetti

American essays - 21st century

Philosophy

Poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Author biography; Also by David Brooks; Title page; Imprint page; Dedication; Contents; A Place on Earth; A Place on Earth; The Thick of It; Poem; Rats, Lice and History; Looking for a Friend in the Mountainsand Not Finding Her; No Poem for Weeks Now; Dust; Hades; Tinnitus; At the University; Her Feet; The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto; Crows; Vivaldi: Concerto for Cello, Stringsand Basso Continuo; Winter Longing Poem; The Ten Towns Down; Night Rain; Croesus; September; September; Eagles; Wasps; Nona; Carmen 192; On First Hearing of a Friend's Illness; Swallows; Priest

Pumpkins on the Koper RoadAugust; Ljubljana in the Sun; The Landing; The River; The Swan; Olives; Pears; A Month of Seven Funerals; Late Music; Apricots; Witness; Open House; In the Kingdom of Shadows; Spiders About the House; Eight Mile; A Call from Mandelstam; Indian Mynahs; Looking for Andrei Gromyko; Phasmid; Ninox strenua; Open House; The Barbarians; Freight; Cold Mountain; The Plover; Jennifer's Mound; Carmen 193; The Roo Field; 'We pass a town empty of people'; Captain Hunter and the Petrels; Majesty; How to Ride a Horse; At the Lytton Hotel,; Plenitude; The Gate; Wild Ducks

Report from Blue MountainsAnother Page from the Book of Everything; Beauty and the Beast; Mist; If Anyone Asks for Me; The Man in the Lift; Broad Bean Meditation; Report from Blue Mountains; Lamplight;



'Windmill'; The Motherboard; Midsummer; Money Like Water; At Refuge; Morning, Station Street; Silent Night; White Cockatoos; Cock-crow; Black Dog; Night Waking; Who I Am; Reading to the Sheep; Ark; Hidden Valley; Accomplishment; Ram in the Rain; Mort Street; Reading to the Sheep; Mountain Night; Orpheus; Birthday Poem; Humans at the Gate; The Ornamental Cherry; Driving Home; Afterthought

The LambsAutumn Twilight; Mushroom Season; Each Other's Tongue; Notes; Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

<div>The poems in this striking new collection take a number of forms, drifting between nature and philosophy, evoking a meditative quality that is both contemplative and full of grace. Spare and honed, David Brooks's poems range in scale, from investigations into microscopic detail observing the smallest creatures and textures underfoot as well as the telescopic, revealing the smallness of human endeavor from a thoughtful distance. This volume is at once powerful, resonant, and unreserved.</div>

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910132193303321

Autore

Fahrmeir Andreas

Titolo

Ehrbare Spekulanten : Stadtverfassung, Wirtschaft und Politik in der City of London, 1688-1900 / / Andreas Fahrmeir; German Historical Institute London

Pubbl/distr/stampa

De Gruyter, 2003

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, , [2011]

©2003

ISBN

3-486-70748-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (596 pages)

Collana

Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts London/ Publications of the German Historical Institute London ; ; BAND 55

Classificazione

NR 8640

Disciplina

942.1

Soggetti

HISTORY / General

London (England) History 17th century

London (England) History 18th century

London (England) History 1800-1950

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- I. Die Verfassung der City Corporation -- II. Die City im 17. Jahrhundert -- III. Traditionale Handelsstadt (1688-1750) -- IV. Politische Instrumentalisierung und Wirtschaftliche Liberalisierung (1751-1800) -- V. Krisenjahre (1800-1850) -- VI. Modernes Finanzzentrum mit altertümlicher Verfassung (1851-1900) -- Ausblick und Ergebnisse -- Back Matter

Sommario/riassunto

Die Londoner City hat zwei Gesichter: das des modernen Finanzplatzes und das der pittoresk-archaischen Lokalverwaltung. Die Beziehungen zwischen diesen beiden wurden in der Forschung lange vernachlässigt - Andreas Fahrmeir geht ihnen nach. Zugleich legt er die erste zusammenhängende Verfassungsgeschichte der City Corporation für die Zeit des Übergangs von der Handelsstadt zur funktional spezialisierten Bürostadt vor. Fahrmeir untersucht die Herkunft und wirtschaftliche Tätigkeit der führenden Amtsträger und er fragt nach Inhalt und Bedeutung der städtischen Rituale. Deutlich wird, dass der wirtschaftliche Erfolg der City zwar dazu beitrug, die Verfassungskontinuität der City zu bewahren, dass aber gleichzeitig die politische Ordnung der City und die Wert- und Zielvorstellungen ihrer Amtsträger die Entwicklung zum Finanzplatz in entscheidender Weise bestimmten. Andreas Fahrmeir ist Heisenberg-Stipendiat am Historischen Seminar der Universität Frankfurt.