Epic
Epic

Author: Herbert F. Tucker

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-11-29

Total Pages: 748

ISBN-13: 0199232997

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Literary history has conventionally viewed Milton as the last real practitioner of the epic in English verse. Herbert Tucker's spirited book shows that the British tradition of epic poetry was unbroken from the French Revolution to World War I.

The British Film Catalogue
The British Film Catalogue

Author: Denis Gifford

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-09-16

Total Pages: 3325

ISBN-13: 1317836987

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First published in 2001. The standard work on its subject, this resource includes every traceable British entertainment film from the inception of the "silent cinema" to 1994. Now, this new edition includes a wholly original second volume devoted to non-fiction and documentary film--an area in which the British film industry has particularly excelled. All entries throughout this third edition have been revised, and coverage has been extended through 1994.Together, these two volumes provide a unique, authoritative source of information for historians, archivists, librarians, and film scholars.

Never Eat Shredded Wheat
Never Eat Shredded Wheat

Author: Christopher Somerville

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Published: 2010-08-19

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1848948697

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Bognor Regis...Aberystwyth...Glasgow...Can you place them on a map? Most people can't these days. What kind of countryside do you pass through on your way to the Cairngorms, or the Fens, or Northumberland? What's north of the Pennines? And what's it like when you get there? Most folk wouldn't have a clue. Increasing numbers of us don't have a basic geographical notion of these islands. Blame it on a decline in formal geography teaching, or Sat-Nav and other 'A to Z and nothing in between' devices that make us lazy -- we are becoming the best travelled and least well orientated Britons ever seen. Now Christopher Somerville, bestselling author of Coast and many other books of UK exploration, presents the basics of what belongs where, which counties border one another, and what lies beyond the Watford Gap. He reminds us of the watery bits, the lumpy bits and the flat bits, and gets to grips with the smaller islands surrounding Britain -- and much more. Never Eat Shredded Wheat is a reminder of all the fascinating British geography once learned at school - geography that brings our islands vividly to life - geography which we have forgotten, or never even knew.