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(0)Walter Raleigh
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This magnificent and comprehensive volume was written in 1922 by Professor Walter Raleigh. Originally entitled The History of the War in the Air (Being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force) this all embracing and vital work features the most important account of the aerial battles, the men and the machines.
Raleigh was Professor of English Literature at Glasgow University and Chair of English Literature at Oxford University....
3) Style
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Literary style is the subject of this 1897 essay. The author considers word choice, memory, vision, cadence, slang, rhythm, emotion, intellect, sincerity, figures of speech, realism, criticism, and other topics, illustrating his points with examples from such authors as Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth.
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England and the War is a collection of Sir Walter Raleigh's lectures during the First World War. Focusing on the advantages of war, including technological developments as a humane practice of warfare, Raleigh's lectures served as propaganda during a time when chemical warfare was first being considered as ethically questionable. England and the War includes the following lectures: "Might is Right," "The War of Ideas," "The Faith of England," "Some...
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“The Discovery of Guiana” is a book by Sir Walter Raleigh, who wrote this account one year after his 1595 journey to "Guiana", the Venezuelan region of Guayana. He also visited Trinidad. The book includes some material of a factual nature but postulates the existence of a gold-rich civilisation on the basis of little evidence.
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2006.
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English
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"133 of the world's most famous poems cleverly performed and artistically interpreted by the First Poetry Quartet and celebrity guests ... Dramatic performances by Claire Bloom, LeVar Burton, Robert Culp, Ruby Dee, Henry Fonda, Will Geer, Fred Gwynne, Valerie Harper, Jack Lemmon, Vincent Price, William Shatner, Irene Worth and other celebrities"--Container.
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