| 1 | Author: | Woods
Edgar | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Albemarle County in Virginia  | | | | Published: | 2007 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The settlement of Virginia was a slow and gradual process.
Plantations were for the most part opened on the
water courses, extending along the banks of the James, and
on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.
It was more than a century after the landing at Jamestown
before white men made the passage of the Blue Ridge. As
soon as that event was noised abroad, it was speedily followed
up, and in the space of the next twenty years the tide
of population had touched the interior portions of the colony,
one stream pushing westward from the sea coast, and
another rolling up the Shenandoah Valley from the wilds of
Pennsylvania. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 41 | Author: | Eaton, Walter Prichard | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Painter of "Diana of the Tides" | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | GIVEN nearly three hundred
square feet of blank
wall space, and it takes
something of an artist to
fill it up with interesting
paint. Probably you
would not pick a miniature
painter for the task.
Yet, curiously, John Elliott, creator of "Diana
of the Tides," the great mural painting which
adorns the large gallery to the right of the
entrance of the new National Museum at Washington,
also paints on ivory. He works, likewise,
in silver point, that delicate and difficult
medium; he draws pastel illustrations for
children's fairy tales; he works in portraiture
with red chalk or oils. And, when the need
comes, he has shown that he can turn stevedore,
carpenter, and architect, to slave with
the relief party at Messina, finally to help
design and build, in four months, an entire
village for the stricken sufferers, including
a hotel, a hospital, three schoolhouses, and
a church. The too frequent scorn of the
"practical man of affairs" for the artist and
dreamer, the world's sneaking tolerance for
the temperament which creates in forms of
ideal beauty rather than in bridges or
factories or banks, finds in the life and work of
such a man as John Elliott such complete, if
unconscious, refutation, that his story should
have its place in the history of the day. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 46 | Author: | Eliot, T. S. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Second-Order Mind | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | TO any one who is at all capable of experiencing the pleasures of justice,
it is gratifying to be able to make amends to a writer whom one has
vaguely depreciated for some years. The faults and foibles of Matthew
Arnold are no less evident to me now than twelve years ago, after my
first admiration for him; but I hope that now, on rereading some of his
prose with more care, I can better appreciate his position. And what
makes Arnold seem all the more remarkable is, that if he were our exact
contemporary, he would find all his labour to perform again. A moderate
number of persons have engaged in what is called "critical" writing, but
no conclusion is any more solidly established than it was in 1865. In the
first essay in the first Essays in Criticism we read that
"it has long seemed to me that the burst of creative activity in our
literature, through the first quarter of this century, had about it in fact
something premature; and that from this cause its productions are
doomed, most of them, in spite of the sanguine hopes which
accompanied and do still accompany them, to prove hardly more lasting
than the productions of far less splendid epochs. And this prematureness
comes from its having proceeded without having its proper data, without
sufficient material to work with. In other words, the English poetry of
the first quarter of this century, with plenty of energy, plenty of creative
force, did not know enough. This makes Byron so empty of matter,
Shelley so incoherent, Wordsworth even, profound as he is, yet so
wanting in completeness and variety." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 47 | Author: | Eliot, T. S. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Possibility of a Poetic Drama | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE questions—why there is no poetic drama to-day, how the stage
has lost all hold on literary art, why so many poetic plays are
written which can only be read, and read, if at all, without
pleasure—have become insipid, almost academic. The usual
conclusion is either that "conditions" are too much for us, or that
we really prefer other types of literature, or simply that we are
uninspired. As for the last alternative, it is not to be
entertained; as for the second, what type do we prefer? and as for
the first, no one has ever shown me "conditions" except of the most
superficial. The reasons for raising the question again are first
that the majority, perhaps, certainly a large number, of poets
hanker for the stage; and second, that a not negligible public
appears to want verse plays. Surely here is some legitimate
craving, not restricted to a few persons, which only the verse play
can satisfy. And surely the critical attitude is to attempt to
analyse the conditions and the other data. If there comes to light
some conclusive obstacle, the investigation should at least help us
to turn our thoughts to more profitable pursuits; and if there is
not we may hope to arrive eventually at a statement of conditions
which might be altered. Possibly we shall find that our incapacity
has a deeper source: the arts have flourished at times when there
was no drama; possibly we are incompetent altogether; in that case
the stage will be not the seat, but at all events a symptom, of the
malady. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 51 | Author: | Eastman, Charles Alexander, 1858-1939 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Madness of Bald Eagle | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IT was many years ago, when I was only a child, began White
Ghost, the patriarchal old chief of the Yanktonnais Sioux, that our
band was engaged in a desperate battle with the Rees and Mandans.
The cause of the fight was a peculiar one. I will tell you about it.
And he laid aside his long-stemmed pipe and settled himself to the
recital. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 52 | Author: | Echols, E. Sherman | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A New England Literary Colony | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | GROUPED together in and about the old New England city of Hartford
are some of the best known literary people in this country. Their
homes form what might almost be called a literary colony, and so close
are their lives that one thinks instinctively of the old saying,
"Birds of a feather flock together." Here are the adjoining homes of
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), Charles Dudley
Warner, William E. Gillette, the noted writer and actor of the drama,
Richard Burton, poet and literary critic, and Isabella Beecher Hooker,
philanthropist and writer on sociology. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 53 | Author: | Edwardy, William M. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Navajo Indians | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | FORT WINGATE, the largest military post in the Southwest, is
situated some three miles south of the line of the Atlantic and
Pacific Railroad, and not many miles from the Arizona border.
Department head-quarters are situated here, and a garrison of nine
companies, mostly of the Sixth United States Cavalry, and one
company of Indian scouts is constantly maintained. This large
force is considered necessary to guard against any possible
outbreak of the Navajo Indians, who roam over an extensive
reservation, embracing nearly twenty thousand square miles of
territory in northwestern New Mexico and northeastern Arizona. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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