In this engaging book David Rosen offers a radically new account of Modern poetry and revises our understanding of its relation to Romanticism. British poets from Wordsworth to Auden attempted to present themselves simultaneously as persons of power and as moral voices in their communities. The modern lyric derives its characteristic complexities—psychological, ethical, formal—from the extraordinary difficulty of this effort.
The very large number of preparatively useful reactions of organic chemistry can be classified systematically and clearly by using the common characteristic of all organic compounds, namely, the carbon skeleton.
When Chicago Black Hawks hockey legend Boom Boom Warshawski drowns in Lake Michigan, his private-eye cousin, the intrepid V.I. Warshawski, questions the accidental death report and rumors of suicide. Armed with a bottle of Black Label and a Smith & Wesson, V.I. follows a trail of violence and corruption to the center of the Windy City's powerful shipping industry.
The National Geographic Magazine, later shortened to National Geographic, is the official journal of the National Geographic Society. It published its first issue in 1888, just nine months after the Society itself was founded. It is immediately identifiable by the characteristic yellow frame that surrounds its front cover.
"Get A Load of This" A collection of short stories, written by Chase, while he was still in the Royal Air Force, was first published in early autumn 1941, and subsequently reprinted in 1988. None of the stories had the characteristic Chase touch, although all were violent, and could be classified as tragedies.