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List Of Works By The Kelmscott Press
This is a list of books that were published by the Kelmscott Press. They are taken from the ''Chronological List of the Books Printed at the Kelmscott Press'' and ''A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press''. Titles with no listed author are by William Morris. 1891 *''The Story of the Glittering Plain''. *''Poems By the Way''. 1892 *'' The Love-Lyrics and Songs of Proteus'', Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. *'' The Nature of Gothic'', John Ruskin. *The Defence of Guenevere'. *A Dream of John Ball'. *''The Golden Legend'', Jacobus de Voragine. *''The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye'', Raoul Lefèvre; trans. William Caxton; ed. H. Halliday Sparling. *'' Biblia Innocentium'', J. W. Mackail. 1893 *'' The History of Reynard the Foxe'', William Caxton; ed. H. Halliday Sparling. *The Poems of William Shakespeare' ed. F.S. Ellis. *'' News from Nowhere''. *''The Order of Chivalry'', trans. Caxton; ed. F. S. Ellis. *''The Life of Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal Archbis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Wardrop
Sir John Oliver Wardrop KBE CMG (10 October 1864 – 19 October 1948) was a British diplomat, traveller and translator, primarily known as the United Kingdom's first Chief Commissioner of Transcaucasia in Georgia, 1919–20, and also as the founder and benefactor of Kartvelian studies at Oxford University. After travelling to Georgia (then part of Imperial Russia) in 1887, Wardrop wrote his study ''The Kingdom of Georgia'', published in 1888. In 1894 during his second journey to Georgia he mastered the Georgian language and published a series of books on Georgia, including his translation of Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani's '' The Book of Wisdom and Lies''. From 1906 to 1910 Wardrop served as Consul to Romania at Bucharest, and in 1914 he was appointed Consul at Bergen, later Consul and then Consul-General for western Norway, remaining at Bergen. In July 1919 the British Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon offered Wardrop the post of the first British Chief Commissioner of Transcaucasus in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani
Prince Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani ( ka, სულხან-საბა ორბელიანი ) (November 4, 1658 – January 26, 1725) was a Georgian writer and diplomat. Orbeliani is noted in part due to his important role as an emissary of Georgia to France and the Vatican, where he vainly sought assistance on behalf of his beleaguered King Vakhtang VI. Biography Orbeliani was born into the House of Orbeliani, with close ties to the Georgian royal Bagrationi dynasty. He was a fabulist, lexicographer, translator, diplomat and scientist. The words of one of the French missioners, Jean Richard, testify to his authority among his contemporaries, "I believe him to be the father of all Georgia." He was born on 4 November 1658, in Village Tandzia near Bolnisi in the Kvemo Kartli. He spent his childhood and adolescence there. He was brought up at the court of King Giorgi XI and acquired his encyclopedic knowledge in the Great Palace Library. When he was 20–25 years old he wrote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti (), was an English poet, illustrator, painter, translator and member of the Rossetti family. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. Rossetti inspired the next generation of artists and writers, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones in particular. His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement. Rossetti's art was characterised by its sensuality and its medieval revivalism. His early poetry was influenced by John Keats and William Blake. His later poetry was characterised by the complex interlinking of thought and feeling, especially in his sonnet sequence, ''The House of Life''. Poetry and image are closely entwined in Rossetti's work. He frequently wrote sonnets to accompany his pictures, spanning from '' The Girlhood of Mary Virgin'' (1849) and ''Astarte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Wilde
Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde (née Elgee; 27 December 1821 – 3 February 1896) was an Irish poet under the pen name Speranza and supporter of the nationalist movement. Lady Wilde had a special interest in Irish folktales, which she helped to gather and was the mother of Oscar Wilde and Willie Wilde. Personal life Jane was the last of the four children of Charles Elgee (1783–1824), the son of Archdeacon John Elgee, a Wexford solicitor, and his wife Sarah (née Kingsbury, d. 1851). Her father died when she was three years old which meant she was largely self-educated. Even so, she is said to have mastered 10 languages by the age of 18. She claimed that her great-grandfather was an Italian who had come to Wexford in the 18th century; in fact, the Elgees descended from Durham labourers. On 12 November 1851 she married Sir William Wilde, an eye and ear surgeon (and also a researcher of folklore), in St. Peter's church in Dublin, and they had three children: William Char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Meinhold
Johannes Wilhelm Meinhold (27 February 1797Bridgwater (2000), p. 213. – 30 November 1851) was a Pomeranian priest and author. Life Meinhold was born in Lütow on the island of Usedom, where his father Georg Wilhelm Meinhold (1767–1728) was a Lutheran priest. Growing up in the atmosphere of the Napoleonic Wars, he enrolled as a student at the University of Greifswald in Swedish Pomerania in the fall of 1813. After his theological education, he was priest in Koserow on Usedom from 1821 until 1827.Goetz (2007), p. 81. For the next 17 years, he was priest in Krummin, also on Usedom, before he relocated to Farther Pomerania. He retired early on account of his insubordinate behavior and died in 1851 in Berlin-Charlottenburg.Dubilski (2003), p. 109. Meinhold was a poet, playwright, and novelist.Mike Ashley (1977) ''Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction'', p. 130. Works Meinhold's best known works are two historical Gothic romance novels: * ''Maria Schweidler, die Berns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
