The Penguin Book of English Song anthologizes the work of 100 English poets who have inspired a host of different composers (some English, some not) to write vocal music. Each of the chapters, arranged chronologically from Chaucer to Auden, opens with a precis of the poet's life, work and, often, approach to music. Richard Stokes's notes and commentaries constantly illuminate the language and themes of the poems and their settings in unexpected ways.
Boys and Foreign Language Learning: Real Boys Don't Do Languages
This book examines the continuing poor relationship between boys and the study of foreign languages and is framed by discussion of gender socialization, gendered curriculum practices and cultural narratives about boys and schooling. The core of the book is constructed by boys themselves. Their commentaries raise important issues for language teachers and curriculum planners, but also for everyone involved in wider conversations about boys, language, literacy and education.
Early American Women Critics provides a new history and analysis of the commentaries, written and spoken, circulated by early American women between the First and Second Great Religious Awakenings (1730s-1840s). Cima introduces readers to where, how and why women critics launched their commentaries on race, religion, gender and nation.
National Romanticism: Formation of National Movements
The present volume is the second one of the series entitled Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770–1945): Texts and Commentaries.
Deity, Mantra, and Wisdom: Development Stage Meditation in Tibetan Buddhist Tantra
This book contains eloquent and inspiring classic writings that lay out the central trainings on the path of Tantra---in particular, the use of visualization and sound in meditation practice. The texts included here are among the most widely studied commentaries from the Tibetan tradition.