The Life and Works of Robert Wood

The Life and Works of Robert Wood

Author: Rachel Finnegan

Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology

Published: 2022-01-06

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9781803271767

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The Life and Works of Robert Wood (1717-1771) commemorates the Irish classicist and traveller on the 250th anniversary of his death and provides the general reader with a study that can be regarded as a source book for the fascinating life and career of a much-neglected figure in the realm of Irish eighteenth-century travels and antiquarianism. The book starts by setting the context of eighteenth-century travels to the east and then examines the primary sources emanating from Wood's own eastern voyages, as well as the relevant literary sources available to him before, during, and after his travels. It then provides an extensive and much-needed biographical account of Robert Wood, with particular reference to his Irish and English patrons, before examining the main results of the second tour (1750-1751), namely his three pioneering books: Ruins of Palmyra (1753), Ruins of Balbec (1757), and The Original Genius of Homer (1775). It ends by considering the enormous legacy of Robert Wood, in terms of the popularity of his books; the variety and quality of portraits commissioned by his friends and associates; his contribution to the study of classical literature; his influence on architectural drawing in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe; and the cultural significance of his work on building design. The text also reflects on the somewhat questionable nature of his works, in terms of the fact that his second voyage of the east, and the entire production of the first two books, were financed by his friend Dawkins, whose wealth derived from a slave plantation in Jamaica.


The Life and Works of Robert Wood

The Life and Works of Robert Wood

Author: Rachel Finnegan

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2022-01-06

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1803271779

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The Life and Works of Robert Wood (1717-1771) commemorates the Irish classicist and traveller on the 250th anniversary of his death and provides the general reader with a source book for the fascinating life and career of a much-neglected figure in the realm of Irish eighteenth-century travels and antiquarianism.


Robert Wood Johnson

Robert Wood Johnson

Author: Lawrence G. Foster

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 800

ISBN-13:

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The fascinating story of the life and times of Robert Wood Johnson, a creative and dynamic leader who put the public trust before profit. He made Johnson & Johnson one of the world's great companies, then left his fortune to The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to improve health care in America.


History & the Poet

History & the Poet

Author: Robert Wood

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781925588576

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History & the Poet is a series of essays on contemporary Australian poetry. In language clear and precise, Robert Wood poses philosophical and ideological questions that matter for poetry now. History & the Poet offers an entry point to a rich and complex world, and is a compelling vision of what poetry can become. It includes discussion of Wood's own experiences and identity as part of a broader conversation about who we are and why poetry matters. This is a welcome and fearless set of writings by Robert Wood: he's unafraid to talk about poetry and its centrality to his life and the many, varied communities within which he moves. These short essays are lively, vivid impressions of how poetry provides a way of understanding the world, politics and history. Sometimes aphoristic, sometimes humorous, they remind us of our expanding linguistic universe, and especially the rich language communities of Australia, including the Indigenous ones. These writings are part of a brilliant, younger generation's new uptake of poetry and poetics - a lot of readers will wish to live in their world.


Life in Laredo

Life in Laredo

Author: Robert D. Wood

Publisher: University of North Texas Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 157441173X

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Annotation The author shows daily live in Laredo and the struggle to survive in a harsh environment from the 1750s - 1850s.


Willa of the Wood

Willa of the Wood

Author: Robert Beatty

Publisher: Disney Electronic Content

Published: 2018-07-10

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 1368010601

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Beatty comes a spooky, thrilling new series set in the magical world of Serafina. Move without a sound. Steal without a trace. Willa, a young nightspirit of the Great Smoky Mountains, is her clan's best thief. She creeps into the homes of day-folk in the cover of darkness and takes what they won't miss. It's dangerous work—the day-folk kill whatever they do not understand. But when Willa's curiosity leaves her hurt and stranded in a day-folk man's home, everything she thought she knew about her people—and their greatest enemy—is forever changed.


The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea

The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea

Author: Robert W. Williamson

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-01-08

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1409226522

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A modern edition of Robert Williamson's readable but very readable account of the Mafulu people. Covers all aspects of their life. This is the complete text, together will all the almost 200 illustrations.


Mothman Apologia

Mothman Apologia

Author: Robert Wood Lynn

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2022-01-01

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 0300261071

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This volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores love, grief, the opioid epidemic, and coming of age "Elegiac and witty."--Elisa Gabbert, New York Times, "The Best Poetry of 2022" "These poems name the hurt wrought upon the meek that makes the elegy, here, as much an exaltation of the living as a mournful dirge for the land."--Major Jackson, Vanderbilt University The 116th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Robert Wood Lynn's collection of poems explores the tensions of youth and the saturation points of knowledge: those moments when the acquisition of understanding overlaps with regret and becomes a desire to know less. Comprising poems of place set across the Virginias, this collection includes an episodic elegy exploring the opioid crisis in the Shenandoah Valley as well as a separate series of persona poems reimagining the Mothman (West Virginia's famed cryptid) reluctantly coming of age in that state's mountains and struggling with the utility of warnings. These are narrative poems of love and grief, built from a storytelling tradition. Taken together they form an arc encompassing the experience of growing up, looking away, and looking back.


Object Marking in Japanese

Object Marking in Japanese

Author: Robert T. Wood

Publisher: Robert T. Wood

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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A self-study programmed lesson that focuses on teaching about the grammatical use of "o" ("wo") versus "ga" in object marking in Japanese sentence structure.


Day Four

Day Four

Author: Robert Wood

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780835898805

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When The Walk to Emmaus event is over, your journey as a Fourth Day pilgrim begins. As you move into Day Four's solo daily practices of piety, study, and Christian action, you will cherish this informative booklet.