Author: Walt Whitman
Publisher: Pomona Press
Keywords: grass, leaves
Number of Pages: 508
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 140679225X
ISBN-13: 9781406792256

The poet in Whitman developed late and slowly while his early writings came only from the surface of his mind. But when he was scarcely in his teens he was publishing bits in Brooklyn papers and presently in George P. Morris’s New York Mirror. At twelve he became an apprentice printer, the first occupation of a dozen writers who were more or less of Whitman’s time. Whitman retained the interest in printing that he had acquired as a little boy standing on type-cases to reach the boxes. In old age he always knew "the easiest way out of printers’ puzzles," as his disciple Horace

Author: Stewart Macpherson
Publisher: Pomona Press
Keywords: music, form
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2008-11-04
List price: $41.45
ISBN-10: 1443734454
ISBN-13: 9781443734455

Contents Include: Accent, Time and Rhythm Phrases and Sentences The Half-Phrase, or Section Rythmic Extension and Contraction The Construction of Complete Movements-The Simple Binary, or Two-Part Form The Simple Ternary, or Three-Part Form The Binary and Ternary Forms(Continued) The Evolution of the Ternary Idea: The Minuet and Trio-The Episodical Form The Evolution of the Trenary Idea(Continued)The Older, Or Simple, Rondo The Evolution of the Trenary Idea(Continued) Sonata-Form-The Exposition-First Subject and Transition Sonita-The Development, or Free Fantasia Form(Continued): Sonita-Form(Co

Author: Naomi Mitchison
Publisher: Pomona Press
Keywords: sparta, black
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 1406794457
ISBN-13: 9781406794458

Her touch is sure, her description admirable. The reader gets a whiff of crushed thyme and of dew on dust as the author tells of Pindar’s poetic adventure into Thessaly’ TimesKeywords: Pindar Thessaly Whiff Thyme Admirable

Author: Henry, Woods
Publisher: Pomona Press
Keywords: invertebrate, palaeontology
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $32.99
ISBN-10: 1406791105
ISBN-13: 9781406791105

Contents Include: Protozoa - Porifera - Coelentera - Echinoderma - Annelida - Brachiopoda - Polyzoa - Mollusca - Arthropoda - List of Palaeontological Works

Author: Miguel De Saavedra, Cervantes
Publisher: Pomona Press
Keywords: vol, mancha, quixote, don
Number of Pages: 452
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $33.99
ISBN-10: 1406791725
ISBN-13: 9781406791723

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: A.E., Baker
Publisher: Pomona Press
Keywords: doubt, prophets
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 1406788511
ISBN-13: 9781406788518

Originally published in 1934, this book contains the Page lectures for that year in the Berkeley Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut. Contents include - Job - Socrates - Pascal - Newman - The Gospel For An Age of Doubt.

Author: W.H. Reed
Publisher: Pomona Press
Keywords: elgar
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 2008-11-04
List price: $40.45
ISBN-10: 1443734314
ISBN-13: 9781443734318

Contents Include: Childhood and Youth In Search of a Career The Teaching of Experience Marriage and Artistic Progress Growing Mastery Gradual Recognition and Fame Full Maturity Continued Creative Activity Fame at Home and Abroad The Elgar Festival and Knighthood Honours Continue Violin Concerto and Second Symphony ’Falstaff’ and the War Music Chamber Music and Cello Concerto Music of the Last Phase Last Days and Unfinished Works Conclusion.’It is difficult to imagine that any one could draw a more intimate and helpful picture of a great man than Mr. Reed has done of Elgar. Ev