The Napping houseThere is a house,a napping house, where everyone is sleeping. "Everyone," in this case is a snoring granny, a dreaming child, a dozing dog, a snoozing cat, a slumbering mouse... and a wakeful flea! Uh-oh. Looks like the napping house won't be napping for long. With their very own brand of humor, Audrey Wood and Don Wood create an appealing bedtime book compatible with Margaret Wise Brown's classic Goodnight Moon. This small, square board book, with its rhythmic, repetitive text and witty pictures in shades of ever-brightening blues and greens (as the night turns to day), is sure to be a winner with preschool insomniacs.
Added by: imans | Karma: 134.75 | Fiction literature | 28 September 2010
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The Dome of Many Coloured Glass
The Dome of Many Coloured Glass contains sonnets and lyrics, chiefly reflective and contemplative, somewhat remote and approaching a tonal twilight, but rhythmic in quality.
Amy Lowell (1874—1925) entitled her first book of poems A Dome of Many- Coloured Glass (1912), a phrase taken from Adonais, Shelley's elegy for Keats. Heavily influenced by Keats's poetry (whose biography Lowell was to write late)
Rhythmic Grammar: The Influence of Rhythm on Grammatical Variation and Change in English
This groundbreaking book highlights a phonological preference, the Principle of Rhythmic Alternation, as a factor in grammatical variation and change in English from the early modern period to the present. Though frequently overlooked in earlier research, the phonetically motivated avoidance of adjacent stresses is shown to exert an influence on a wide variety of phenomena in morphology and syntax.
