Transcribed from tapes only recently discovered, This Craft of Verse captures the cadences, candor, wit, and remarkable erudition of one of the most extraordinary and enduring literary voices of the twentieth century.
Demonstrating remarkable erudition and sweeping breadth, The Quest of the Absolute analyzes Romanticism as a unique cultural phenomenon and a spiritual revolution.
Peter's love of discourse bestowed those around him with his remarkable curiosity, erudition, charm and well-honed sense of humor.
Its author, British-born Tony Judt, is our preeminent historian of postwar Europe, a scholar of remarkable breadth and erudition and one of the West's foremost and most outspoken public intellectuals.
The range gives some indication of Balanchine's erudition, especially remarkable for a dancer.
Dummett's erudition was remarkable — his undergraduate background had been in PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics), and his grasp of logic and mathematics had been almost entirely self-taught.
Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, (born Nov. 3, 1856, Santander, Spain died May 19 , 1912 Santander), Spanish literary critic and historian, remarkable for his vast erudition and his elegant and flexible prose.
Marion's remarkable creativity and unparalleled erudition are here on full display while he advances a novel and provocative argument: for Descartes, as for us, passivity is perhaps the most privileged mode of thinking.
His works are, however, considered remarkable for their wide-ranging erudition, their wit and irony, their passion for social justice, and their classical clarity, qualities that mark France as an heir to the tradition of Denis Diderot and Voltaire.
With about 29,000 year-round residents, Ithaca is remarkable for the diversity and erudition of its population, its commitment to the arts and civic life, and the natural beauty of the environment.
At once a remarkable demonstration of art-historical erudition and an almost bardic exercise in lyrical tale-telling, this timely analysis... presents a novel take on the idea of the wild.
