Spindrift: Salt from the Ocean of English Prose (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Geoffrey Callender

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ISBN 10 : 1331452422 ISBN 13 : 9781331452423

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Sea Prose or of Seamen s Prose. Such a book, if compiled, would be found on inspection to be stuffed with quaint words and larded with strange oaths. To some the dish might prove not unpalatable. Indeed it is probable -that Ned Ward dissector of The Wooden World, Parson Teonge the naval Diarist, and Jack Nastyface the unraveller of Nautical Economy, might attract a wider audience to-day than they could draw from their own generation. But the passages here presented are the traffics of authors on the ocean ways, not the wanderings of seafarers in the thorny labyrinths of language. The present anthology, it is hoped, may help in some measure to show how the masters of English Prose have been affected by the sea; how soon they waked responsive to its influence; how faithfully they have pictured it in storm and calm; how skilfully they have used it for stage effect or to create an atmosphere; how deeply they have plumbed its sundering floods; how subtly they have been lured by the spell of its colour or the thrall of its music; how far they have followed like mendicant sea-gulls in the wake of its painted ships. Some men of letters have at best betrayed a casual or curious interest in the subject. Some with contemptuous deliberation have passed it by on the other side. Some in their environment have found no occasion for so much as a passing reference to it.
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Présentation de l'éditeur

Sir Geoffrey Callender (1875–1946) was a British naval historian who was the first director of the National Maritime Museum. In this collection, which was first published in 1915, Callender presents a series of pieces written by various 'masters of English prose' relating to maritime themes. The pieces are presented, as far as knowledge permits, in the order of their composition or publication, beginning with John Wycliffe's 'The story of Jonah' and finishing with James Anthony Froude's 'Drake'. Detailed notes are contained throughout the text, providing linguistic clarification and contextual information where necessary. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in English prose writing and writing about the sea.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331452422
• ISBN 13: 9781331452423
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 438
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible