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  • Summer of Our Discontent

    The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse

    **An incisive, culturally observant analysis of the evolving mores, manners and taboos of social justice (“anti-racist”) orthodoxy, which has profoundly influenced how we think about diversity and freedom of expression, often with complex or paradoxical consequences."Summer of our Discontent [is] a gift: a way of understanding what happened to us that preserves the humanity of all parties and ... Read more

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    Summer of Our Discontent

    The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse

    Unabridged

    7 hours 45 min

    An incisive, culturally observant analysis of the evolving mores, manners and taboos of social justice (“anti-racist”) orthodoxy, which has profoundly influenced how we think about diversity and freedom of expression, often with complex or paradoxical consequences.In this provocative book, Thomas Chatterton Williams, one of the most revered and reviled social commentators of our time, paints a ... Read more

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  • Losing My Cool

    Love, Literature, and a Black Man's Escape from the Crowd

    A pitch-perfect account of how hip-hop culture drew in the author and how his father drew him out again-with love, perseverance, and fifteen thousand books.Into Williams's childhood home-a one-story ranch house-his father crammed more books than the local library could hold. "Pappy" used some of these volumes to run an academic prep service; the rest he used in his unending pursuit of wisdom. His ... Read more

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  • The Rowley Poems

    In 1763, an 11-year-old boy named Thomas Chatterton began publishing mature works of poetry. Before long, he was fooling the literary world by passing his work off as that of a non-existent 15th-century poet named Thomas Rowley—which he did until unmasked by Horace Walpole. Brought up in poverty and without a father, he studied furiously and went on to try and earn a living from his writing. After ... Read more

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  • The Poetry Of Thomas Chatterton - Vol 2

    "It is my pride, my damn'd, native, unconquerable pride, that plunges me into distraction."

    Series Book 2 - Thomas Chatterton Poetry Selection
    Thomas Chatterton was born on November 20th, 1752 in Bristol. Somewhat lonely as a child his consuming interest was the contents of several chests of books, parchments and documents in the church at St Mary Redcliff of which his family was sexton. By the age of twelve he had written “Elinoure and Juga”. Knowing that the works of such a youngster would not be taken seriously he continued to write ... Read more

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  • The Rowley Poems

    Forging Literary Authenticity: Exploring 18th Century Hoaxes and Medieval Poetry

    Thomas Chatterton's "The Rowley Poems" is a masterful collection that showcases the author's pioneering use of medieval English poetic forms and themes. Written in the late 18th century, these poems are attributed to the fictional 15th-century monk Thomas Rowley, blending authentic archival language with Chatterton's own innovative style. The literary context of the work is steeped in the Romantic ... Read more

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  • Poems

    Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol, in the Fifteenth Century, by Thomas Rowley and Others

    In 1763, an 11-year-old boy named Thomas Chatterton began publishing mature works of poetry. Before long, he was fooling the literary world by passing his work off as that of a non-existent 15th-century poet named Thomas Rowley—which he did until unmasked by Horace Walpole. Brought up in poverty and without a father, he studied furiously and went on to try and earn a living from his writing. After ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Heccar and Gaira - An African Eclogue

    An 18th Century classic poem

    Narrated by Ghizela Rowe ...

    Unabridged

    7 min

    Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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  • The Top 10 Poets - Committed Suicide

    The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be ... Read more

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  • The Poetry Of Thomas Chatterton - Vol 3

    "You must know that 19-20th of my composition is pride."

    Series Book 3 - Thomas Chatterton Poetry Selection
    Thomas Chatterton was born on November 20th, 1752 in Bristol. Somewhat lonely as a child his consuming interest was the contents of several chests of books, parchments and documents in the church at St Mary Redcliff of which his family was sexton. By the age of twelve he had written “Elinoure and Juga”. Knowing that the works of such a youngster would not be taken seriously he continued to write ... Read more

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  • Selected Poems of Thomas Chatterton

    Series series Fyfield Books
    This book presents Thomas Chatterton's selected poems. It includes introductions to Chatterton's life, technique, and reputation, and shows the historical significance and unexpected range of his poetry, which spans the genres of satire, elegy, lyric, narrative verse, and poetic drama. ... Read more

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  • The Poetry Of Thomas Chatterton - Vol 1

    "There is a time for all things - except marriage my dear."

    Series Book 1 - Thomas Chatterton Poetry Selection
    Thomas Chatterton was born on November 20th, 1752 in Bristol. Somewhat lonely as a child his consuming interest was the contents of several chests of books, parchments and documents in the church at St Mary Redcliff of which his family was sexton. By the age of twelve he had written “Elinoure and Juga”. Knowing that the works of such a youngster would not be taken seriously he continued to write ... Read more

    $3.99 USD