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Housing and the Democratic Ideal
Published in Hardcover by Columbia University Press (15 September, 2000)
Author: A. Scott Henderson
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Song of the Unsung
First, let the record reflect that Professor Henderson is a beautiful writer. This biography of a quietly insistent policymaker is painstakingly researched; more importantly, it's thoughtfully analyzed in a way that makes the New Deal relevant to today's issues.


Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850 (Norton Critical Edition)
Published in Paperback by W.W. Norton & Company (August, 1980)
Authors: William Wordsworth, Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, and Stephen Charles Gill
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A beautiful epic, with an English Romantic spin
It is interesting that Wordsworth should never have published his most impressive poem. Norton calls it the "most original long poem since Milton's Paradise Lost," and it certainly deserves to be ranked alongside the master of the English epic. This poem was not published until after Wordsworth's death in 1850, and there are several versions of it (which are included in this book). The 1798-1799 version is very short, but the 1805 is expanded and includes many epic devices which Wordsworth borrowed from Milton and others. The 1850 version is basically a revised 1805 edition. It is not necessary that you read all three versions of the poem to understand its power, but it is useful to have them all at hand like this.

The Prelude is an autobiography about Wordsworth's early life. It is full of sublime images of the world through the eyes of a Romantic, and includes some of the most beautiful imagery ever set to verse in English (I believe). Wordsworth's reflections about the evils of ambition and self-absortion, among other things, are also very powerful.

This poem has been widely quoted by such Christian authors as CS Lewis, and has been admired by many great English poets. It is truly a masterpiece, an epic poem done in the tradition of English Romanticism. You can get this poem in many compilations, but usually in abridged form. This edition features the poem in its entirety, and in three version. This poem is essential to any study of English Romanticism.

five stars
This book articulates a vision of the world and of the emotions it inspires in a cerebral, yet densely imaged poem. Wordsworth did not want the poem published for fears that it was too self-absorbed; adressing earlier reviews that have made this complaint, it is true that the poem is self absorbed in that it presents the vision of the world from an individual perspective...as all poems do. I find Eliot's use of quotations and footnotes drawing on his banks of memory and reading to be far more self-absorbed than this: a poem intended to communicated clearly. It is true that it is personal in that it was written to a friend with devotion and love, but this does not detract from the power of the language, the power of the vision, and the impact of the poem upon the age(s). As for comparing Wordsworth to a modernist, that comparison is difficult to make as the modernists rejected the romantic's formal language and optimism (both present in the prelude, despite moments of recognition of a bleak 'wasted' world).

Wordsworth: Poet of Anxiety
I entirely disagree with the prevailing reviews on The Prelude. We have no other secular poem about the futile search for meaning in a meaningless world so fine as the Prelude: it is the Paradise Lost of those who search or long for a fleeting significance. What is significant about the poem is not that we believe what Wordsworth claims about the power of nature and the mind, but that he tried so hard to search out some sense of meaning and order- Wordsworth is the first Modernist writer before there was a name for his anxiety. This edition is wonderful in the way that it presents the 1805 and 1850 versions on opposite pages- it also contains the 1799 version- a real tour de force. Read The Prelude, read it carefully and take it too heart- there is no Song of Myself without Wordsworth's humane yet Promethean quest for significance.


American Beauties: Women in Art and Literature: Paintings, Sculptures, Drawings, Photographs, and Other Works of Art from the National Museum of Am
Published in Hardcover by Harry N Abrams (April, 1993)
Authors: Charles Sullivan, National Museum Of American Art, and Abrams
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The Americana-1995 Calendar
Published in Calendar by AMCAL (June, 1994)
Authors: Abrams and Charles Wyscoki
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Cal 97 Baseball's Golden Age
Published in Paperback by Harry N Abrams (July, 1996)
Authors: Charles M. Conlon, Wall, and Abrams
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Charles and Ray Eames 2002 Calendar
Published in Paperback by Harry N Abrams (August, 2001)
Author: Harry N Abrams Inc
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Charles Russell-1996 Calendar
Published in Calendar by (June, 1995)
Author: Abrams
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Charles Russell: 1998 Calendar
Published in Calendar by (June, 1997)
Author: Abrams
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The city is the frontier
Published in Unknown Binding by ()
Author: Charles Abrams
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Forbidden Neighbors: A Study of Prejudice in Housing
Published in Hardcover by Associated Faculty Pr Inc (June, 1955)
Author: Charles, Abrams
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