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• catalog abstract "It is no surprise that one of the earliest works in English literature should be a poem about the sea: the sea has been a source of fascination from the earliest times, and the Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Seafarer' is only the first in a long series of writings which ponder its mystery. A powerful and restless presence in real life, the sea is one of the most ubiquitous and protean symbols in literature, changing in response to shifts in sensibility, and holding a mirror to all who confront it--Renaissance explorers and Augustan gentlemen, Romantic outcasts and Victorian travellers, packet tourists and small-boat sailors, naturalists and novelists, poets and oceanographers: men and women in a state of wonder before the sea. Jonathan Raban brings a special awareness and knowledge to his role as editor; in the words of Colin Thubron, 'nobody of his generation writes more subtly or imaginatively on travel'. Raban's introduction constitutes an important essay on the meaning of the sea in literature, and the pieces he has chosen display the exhilarating richness of writing in the tradition. Alongside extracts from the acknowledged marine masterpieces are many unexpected delights: Emily Dickinson's affirmative poem 'Exaltation is the Going'; a meditation on a seaside holiday by Larkin; Jane Austen's tart satirizing of Byron's Romanticized sea; Thoreau's contemplation of monsters and lost anchors off Cape Cod; Willard Bascom's brilliantly observed description of breaking waves. As richly varied and enthralling as the sea itself, this sparkling collection spans the centuries from AD 900 to 1990 and forms a unique and important body of writing to delight in and admire.".
• catalog alternative "Book of the sea".
• catalog alternative "Sea.".
• catalog contributor b3569567.
• catalog created "1992.".
• catalog date "1992".
• catalog date "1992.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
• catalog description "Anon. from 'The Seafarer' -- Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599). from The Faerie Queene -- Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616). Edward Hay's account of Sir Humphrey Gilbert's voyage to. Newfoundland from Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation -- The English Bible (1611). from Psalm 107 -- George Chapman (1559-1634). from Homer's Odysseys -- Samuel Purchas (c.1575-1626). from Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas His Pilgrimes -- John Donne (1572-1631). 'The Storme'. 'The Calme' -- John Milton (1608-1674). from 'Lycidas'. from The Book of Common Prayer -- John Dryden (1631-1700). from Annus Mirabilis -- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (c.1624-1674). 'The Sea-goddess' -- Charles Cotton (1630-1687). 'The Tempest' -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719). from The Spectator -- Daniel Defoe (c. 1660- 1731). from Robinson Crusoe. from A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). from Journal of a Voyage -- James Thomson (1700-1748).".
• catalog description "It is no surprise that one of the earliest works in English literature should be a poem about the sea: the sea has been a source of fascination from the earliest times, and the Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Seafarer' is only the first in a long series of writings which ponder its mystery. A powerful and restless presence in real life, the sea is one of the most ubiquitous and protean symbols in literature, changing in response to shifts in sensibility, and holding a mirror to all who confront it--Renaissance explorers and Augustan gentlemen, Romantic outcasts and Victorian travellers, packet tourists and small-boat sailors, naturalists and novelists, poets and oceanographers: men and women in a state of wonder before the sea.".
• catalog description "Jonathan Raban brings a special awareness and knowledge to his role as editor; in the words of Colin Thubron, 'nobody of his generation writes more subtly or imaginatively on travel'. Raban's introduction constitutes an important essay on the meaning of the sea in literature, and the pieces he has chosen display the exhilarating richness of writing in the tradition. Alongside extracts from the acknowledged marine masterpieces are many unexpected delights: Emily Dickinson's affirmative poem 'Exaltation is the Going'; a meditation on a seaside holiday by Larkin; Jane Austen's tart satirizing of Byron's Romanticized sea; Thoreau's contemplation of monsters and lost anchors off Cape Cod; Willard Bascom's brilliantly observed description of breaking waves. As richly varied and enthralling as the sea itself, this sparkling collection spans the centuries from AD 900 to 1990 and forms a unique and important body of writing to delight in and admire.".
• catalog extent "xviii, 524 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Oxford book of the sea.".
• catalog identifier "019214197X".
• catalog isFormatOf "Oxford book of the sea.".
• catalog issued "1992".
• catalog issued "1992.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
• catalog relation "Oxford book of the sea.".
• catalog subject "820/.8/032162 20".
• catalog subject "American literature.".
• catalog subject "English literature.".
• catalog subject "Ocean Literary collections.".
• catalog subject "Ocean travel Literary collections.".
• catalog subject "PR1111.O24 O97 1992".
• catalog subject "Sea poetry, American.".
• catalog subject "Sea poetry, English.".
• catalog subject "Sea stories, American.".
• catalog subject "Sea stories, English.".
• catalog subject "Seafaring life Literary collections.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Anon. from 'The Seafarer' -- Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599). from The Faerie Queene -- Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616). Edward Hay's account of Sir Humphrey Gilbert's voyage to. Newfoundland from Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation -- The English Bible (1611). from Psalm 107 -- George Chapman (1559-1634). from Homer's Odysseys -- Samuel Purchas (c.1575-1626). from Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas His Pilgrimes -- John Donne (1572-1631). 'The Storme'. 'The Calme' -- John Milton (1608-1674). from 'Lycidas'. from The Book of Common Prayer -- John Dryden (1631-1700). from Annus Mirabilis -- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (c.1624-1674). 'The Sea-goddess' -- Charles Cotton (1630-1687). 'The Tempest' -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719). from The Spectator -- Daniel Defoe (c. 1660- 1731). from Robinson Crusoe. from A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). from Journal of a Voyage -- James Thomson (1700-1748).".
• catalog title "Book of the sea".
• catalog title "Sea.".
• catalog title "The Oxford book of the sea / edited by Jonathan Raban.".
• catalog type "Literary collections. fast".
• catalog type "text".