Stephen Coote Libros

A central work of modernism, The Waste Land evokes a world of moral, sexual and spiritual decay. In it Eliot gives voice to the deep intellectual uncertainty that had existed from the 1870s and to his own sense of the collapse of civilization. Stephen Coote's critical study outlines the historical background that led Eliot to his bleak vision of humanity. He gives a close account of the development of the poem and disucsses fully its arguments, allusions, poetic techniques and patterns of imagery. There is also a chapter on the crucial role played by Ezra Pound in editing the manuscript. Above all, he seeks to elucidate the way in which Eliot drew upon the rich tradition of past centuries, bringing together myth and life-enhancing poetry to create a work that has become a seminal part of our heritage.

A masterly re-evaluation of a self-made Elizabethan hero, and a fascinating re-creation of the man and his era. Sir Francis Drake: pirate, explorer and Protestant zealot, a man princely in his bearing, heroic if sometimes foolhardy in his enterprise, a genius at once awe-inspiring and riddled with faults. He is the archetypal Elizabethan sea-dog, and Stephen Coote's brilliant new book rescues him from the dusty pages of history to breathe new life into one of the great maritime adventure stories. Focusing on the episodes that made Drake's reputation - and exploring not just the nature of that reputation but how it also, for better or worse, came to epitomise a sense of nationhood - Stephen Coote re-creates all the excitement and terror of the raids on Spanish Caribbean ports during Drake's privateering days; the extraordinary feat of the circumnavigation aboard the 'Golden Hind'; and Drake's role in the famous defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. Told with novelistic verve, DRAKE is a thoroughly modern re-assessment of a man who embodied all the ebullient courage and personal shortcomings of the great age of Elizabethan expansion. Was Drake just a rabid anti-papist, a state-sponso

Sir Walter Raleigh is well-known as an explorer, pirate, lover, poet, courtier, philosopher and political prisoner, a man of timeless fascination. An essential part of the nation's history, he embodies the energy of Elizabethan England. This is a biography.

"Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), perhaps the most famous Englishman of the Restoration and one of the greatest writers of any period, is brought to life in this new biography. Pepys was a man of boundless energy, intimately involved with the most important events of his tumultuous time. From humble beginnings as the son of a Cambridgeshire tailor, the ambitious Pepys rose to become a Member of Parliament and the Secretary to the Admiralty, commanding the Royal Navy during the Dutch War of 1672-74. His friends included the luminaries of the age, including Christopher Wren and Isaac Newton.". "Of all his achievements, the diary Pepys kept is probably the most well-known. Begun in 1660, Pepys's daily chronicle of his life is an intricate portrait of his age. Stephen Coote carefully charts the enormous range of talent Pepys brought to all his endeavours, in both peace and war. Pepys's description of the Plague's toll on London, the Fire of London's devastation, and the brief but fateful reign of James II are not merely historical documents, but also masterpieces of English literature."--BOOK JACKET.

"El mayor objeto en el universo, dice un filósofo, es un buen hombre luchando contra la adversidad." Cuando el Dr. Primrose pierde su fortuna en una inversión desastrosa, su vida idílica en el campo se desmorona y se ve obligado a mudarse con su esposa y sus seis hijos a una vida empobrecida en la propiedad del Squire Thornhill. Al salir en busca de su hija, que ha sido seducida por el desenfrenado Squire, el agobiado Primrose se ve envuelto en una serie de desventuras: se encuentra con su hijo perdido en una compañía de teatro ambulante e incluso pasa tiempo en una prisión por deudas. Sin embargo, Primrose, aunque obstaculizado por su ingenuidad y orgullo, se sostiene gracias a su inquebrantable fe religiosa. En "El vicario de Wakefield", Goldsmith se burla suavemente de muchas de las convenciones literarias de su tiempo, desde lo pastoral y lo romántico hasta lo picaresco, infundiendo su historia de un clérigo desafortunado con un cálido humor y una amable sátira social.