Airs on Fantastic Spirits (Classic Reprint)
Airs on Fantastic Spirits (Classic Reprint)

Author: Thomas Weelkes

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-18

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9780331303094

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Excerpt from Airs on Fantastic Spirits The six-part Madrigal, Death hath depriv'd me of my dearest friend, is called by Weelkes a remembrance of my friend M. Thomas Morley, who died, it is said, in 1604. Oliphant (mama Madrzgaksca, p. 145) points out that this stanza is taken from Wittes Pilgrimage (by Poeticall Essaies) through a World of Amorous Sonnets, Soule-passions, and other Passages, diuine, philosophical], morall, poetical] and politicall, by John Davies of Hereford, where it is called A Dump upon the death of the most noble Henry, late Earl of Pembroke. Oliphant gives the date of the book as 1590, but the article in the Dictionary of National Biography says that it seems to have been published in 1610 or 161 1, which would put it later than Weelkes' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Spirits of the Air
Spirits of the Air

Author: Shepard Krech

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 0820328154

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Before the massive environmental change wrought by the European colonization of the South, hundreds of species of birds filled the region's flyways in immeasurable numbers. Before disease, war, and displacement altered the South's earliest human landscape, Native Americans hunted and ate birds and made tools and weapons from their beaks, bones, and talons. More significant to Shepard Krech III, Indians adorned themselves with feathers, invoked avian powers in ceremonies and dances, and incorporated bird imagery on pottery, carvings, and jewelry. Krech, a renowned authority on Native American interactions with nature, reveals as never before the omnipresence of birds in Native American life. From the time of the earliest known renderings of winged creatures in stone and earthworks through the nineteenth century, when Native southerners took part in decimating bird species with highly valued, fashionable plumage, Spirits of the Air examines the complex and changeable influences of birds on the Native American worldview. We learn of birds for which places and people were named; birds common in iconography and oral traditions; birds important in ritual and healing; and birds feared for their links to witches and other malevolent forces. Still other birds had no meaning for Native Americans. Krech shows us these invisible animals too, enriching our understanding of both the Indian-bird dynamic and the incredible diversity of winged life once found in the South. A crowning work drawing on Krech's distinguished career in anthropology and natural history, Spirits of the Air recovers vanished worlds and shows us our own anew.