One of the major transformations in world history during the twentieth century has been the slow shift of world economic and political power from the Atlantic to the Pacific Rim. Japan has played a key role in spurring this transformation.
In a unique collection of essays devoted to one of America's most significant twentieth-century poets, a group of international contributors considers the Transatlantic nature of Stevens' poetry, providing original accounts of how a poet wary of 'influence' created a poetics which continues to haunt contermporary verse.
Adventure Guide to Canada's Atlantic Provinces: Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Labrador, Iles de la Madeleine
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Non-Fiction » tourism | 8 October 2008
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Covering Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Southern Labrador and Cape Breton Island, this travel guide to the Atlantic Provinces is the most comprehensive on the market. It takes in everything, from the Fundy Coast and the Acadian Peninsula to the fjords of Gros Morne and Lord Baltimore's Lost Colony.
The book also offers details on the local wildlife, including moose, caribou, bears, seals and whales. Complete restaurant and hotel information. Photos and maps. Fully indexed.
Added by: englishcology | Karma: 4552.52 | Fiction literature | 23 June 2008
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The explanation of this lies in the wretchedly dependent state of native authorship at that time. The law of copyright had not then attained to even the refined injustice which it has now reached. "I continue," he wrote, in 1844, "to scribble tales with good success so far as regards empty praise, some notes of which, pleasant enough to my ears, have come from across the Atlantic. But the pamphlet and piratical system has so broken up all regular literature, that I am forced to work hard for small gains."
