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1. Trees of the Northern United States and Canada by John Laird Farrar | |
Hardcover: 502
Pages
(1995-07-30)
list price: US$56.99 -- used & new: US$35.90 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 081382740X Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Customer Reviews (10)
One of a kind for northern USA
Another great book
The one I reach for
The best tree book
Great Field Guide My only small complaint with the text is that the ranges for several species are incomplete, covering only the areas in Canada and the very northernmost United States.Many species have a much broader native habitat, and it's often necessary to reference a second text for that information.Other than that; however, it is a great text that even includes "quick recognition" tips for most species.Farrar gives us a valuable resource for horticulture lovers and woodsmen of the north. ... Read more |
2. Corporate Governance: Theories, Principles, and Practice by John Farrar | |
Paperback: 552
Pages
(2005-10-13)
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3. "I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare by John Clare | |
Paperback: 344
Pages
(2003-11-15)
list price: US$18.00 -- used & new: US$10.72 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0374528691 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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Poet of loss, at last gaining recognition
AN ENTREATY
Great Stuff, Questionable Selection Thou art gone the dark journey This is just the first stanza of a poem whose unusual lyrical intensity is sustained throughout. Why Bate couldn't have tossed in just a few more such poems - particularly the ones he talks about in his biography - is as baffling as it is enraging. After so much neglect and misfortune, one would think that Bate might have been a bit more discerning in his choice of poems to include here. It is time for Clare's reputation to be granted its very just reward, and I am afraid that Bate may have missed his chance. (Though I see that he has chosen to participate in the debate himself here, which exemplifies the deep love that must have motivated him to spend so much time and energy on the biography. His point about ratings and discussion is an excellent one.) Nonetheless, readers will undoubtedly be thankful for some of the unbelievable writing Bate did select for this collection, such as the riveting "The Fallen Elm" in which we find ghostly anticipations of Auden, Philip Levine and Seamus Heany. Speaking of the elm whose falling prompted one of the most moving letters to a friend Clare ever penned, Clare writes: Thou owned a language by which hearts are stirred What amazing writing. That last line smacks of Auden's best work, particularly his masterful "September 1, 1939." The broad strokes of Clare's longer work are matched in power only by his more compact and formally unprecedented sonnets. In the biography, Bates writes that "Clare challenged the conventions of poetic diction by using the vocabulary of his region; in his poems of the 1830s he challenged the conventions of form, revealing that the sonnet could be divided up in new ways."Bates goes on to note that some of the rhyme schemes Clare employed in his sonnets are without precedent, while the timing of his execution simultaneously challenges and revitalizes an overly familiar poetic form. But beyond all of this jargon and technical criticism, the sheer emotional boundlessness of so many of Clare's sonnets is what really strikes home. Bates suggests that Clare is England's greatest poet of childhood. While I think such a statement undermines Blake's achievement, it is not unfair to consider Clare a very close second to Blake. Poems like Blake's "London" or "The Sick Rose" meet their match in some of Clare's more impassioned stretches of verse. That the world has gone without fully recognizing one of its quieter geniuses is a sad fact of history now. At least someone is trying. Though Bate counts Clare's complete poems to the amount of "3500," it does not seem unreasonable to ask for a more comprehensive representation of the man's achievement. After all, Thomas Hardy's complete poems is over 900 pages long, and while the power of Hardy's work waned with age, Clare wrote some great material while languishing away in asylums as an older man.Even Hardy's amazing earlier poems -- "The Darkling Thrush" or "Neutral Tones," for instance -- fail to entirely outdo a good portion of Clare's work. The two poets are quite comparable, especially since Clare tackled precisely the same themes -- nature, mortality, lost loves, nostalgia -- and sometimes with just as much if not more majesty. I really applaud Bate's great effort on behalf of Clare, and though asking for more in the face of such hard work does little justice to my sincere gratitude, I still think some attention need be paid to the scattered nature of Clare's published writings. I think a fuller example of his work ought to be included in one book, not thrown across many different volumes. If Bate is not the man for this job, hopefully somebody else will be in my lifetime.
Correction of other review (Apologies for filling in a rating box, but the system wouldn't let me leave it blank: how typical of our culture where everything has to be ranked rather than discussed!)
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4. Have You Never Been Mellow (Cover Photo of Olivia Newton John) by John Farrar | |
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(1975)
Asin: B000X5S8Z6 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
5. Forgotten shrines [by] John Chipman Farrar (Yale series of younger poets) by John Chipman Farrar | |
Unknown Binding: 55
Pages
(1919)
Asin: B0008B8VFM Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
6. John Farrar tells about Frances Parkinson Keyes and "The chess players." by John Farrar | |
Unknown Binding: 2
Pages
(1960)
Asin: B0007HAW4K Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
7. The watch / by Carlo Levi ; translated by John Farrar by Carlo (1902-1975) Levi | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1952)
Asin: B0011W8XAU Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
8. Recollections of seventy years by Mrs. John Farrar. by Michigan Historical Reprint Series | |
Paperback: 342
Pages
(2005-12-20)
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9. Contemporary Authors: Biography - Farrar, John C(hipman) (1896-1974) | |
Digital: 4
Pages
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10. Songs for Johnny-Jump-Up, by John Chipman Farrar | |
Unknown Binding: 55
Pages
(1930)
Asin: B00087DCR8 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
11. People and Places in the Bible (Bible Reference Library) by John Farrar | |
Paperback:
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(1988-04)
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12. Hopelessly Devoted to You (Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta on Front Cover) (From "Grease", Recorded by Olivia Newton-John) by John Farrar | |
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(1978)
Asin: B0011EBOO0 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
13. Selected letters of John Keats (Great letters series) by John Keats | |
Unknown Binding: 282
Pages
(1951)
Asin: B0007G5S5Y Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Book Description The letters of John Keats are, T. S. Eliot remarked, "what letters ought to be; the fine things come in unexpectedly, neither introduced nor shown out, but between trifle and trifle." This new edition, which features four rediscovered letters, three of which are being published here for the first time, affords readers the pleasure of the poet's "trifles" as well as the surprise of his most famous ideas emerging unpredictably. Unlike other editions, this selection includes letters to Keats and among his friends, lending greater perspective to an epistolary portrait of the poet. It also offers a revealing look at his "posthumous existence," the period of Keats's illness in Italy, painstakingly recorded in a series of moving letters by Keats's deathbed companion, Joseph Severn. Other letters by Dr. James Clark, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Richard Woodhouse--omitted from other selections of Keats's letters--offer valuable additional testimony concerning Keats the man. Edited for greater readability, with annotations reduced and punctuation and spelling judiciously modernized, this selection recreates the spontaneity with which these letters were originally written. |
14. Gorbachev: The Man and the System by Ilya Zemtsov, John Farrar | |
Paperback: 479
Pages
(2007-09-30)
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15. Songs For Parents by John Farrar | |
Paperback: 56
Pages
(2007-08-29)
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16. The middle twenties, by John Chipman Farrar | |
Unknown Binding:
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(1924)
Asin: B00085ORSS Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
17. The Bookman Anthology of Verse by John Farrar | |
Paperback: 96
Pages
(2004-06-30)
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18. Company Law and Securities Regulation in New Zealand by Mark Russell, John H. Farrar | |
Paperback: 553
Pages
(1985-12)
list price: US$63.00 Isbn: 0409701688 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
19. Pollyanna (TK1020) by Eleanor H. Porter | |
Paperback: 219
Pages
(1975)
Isbn: 0197510205 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
20. The Yale Book of Student Verse 1910-1919 by John; BENET, Stephen Vincent; FARRAR, John C.; UNDERWOOD, Pierson (Editors) ANDREWS | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1919)
Asin: B000KRTFAE Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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