Intimately linked as twin hubs of the Elizabethan entertainment industry north and south of the Thames, Blackfriars' and Southwark's shared history emerged from opposing forces and ancient geographic

Experiment with cryptography—the science of secret writing. Cipher and decipher codes: transposition and polyalphabetical ciphers, famous codes, typewriter and telephone codes, codes that use playing cards, knots, and swizzle sticks...even invisible writing and sending messages through outer space. Hours of intrigue and challenge. 45 diagrams.

Experiment with cryptography—the science of secret writing. Cipher and decipher codes: transposition and polyalphabetical ciphers, famous codes, typewriter and telephone codes, codes that use playing cards, knots, and swizzle sticks...even invisible writing and sending messages through outer space. Hours of intrigue and challenge. 45 diagrams.

【作者简介】 海伦·文德勒(HelenVendler)，美国文学评论界的领军人物，被称为当代极为优秀、敏锐的诗歌评论家之一。1933年出生于马萨诸塞州，1960年获得哈佛大学文学博士学位，先后在康奈尔大学、波士顿大学等大学任职。1984年开始在哈佛大学英语系任教，兼任美国艺术与科学研究院院士。1990年，被任命为哈佛大学亚瑟·金斯利·波特讲座教授。文德勒专注于诗人和诗歌作品的细读，被誉为具有“铁血战士般的战斗力”，是一位“力量型的诗歌读者”。她多年来笔耕不辍，推出多部关于英美诗人的专著，因为卓越的贡献，获得了代表美国最高人文成就的国家人文基金等无数荣誉和奖项。 在《巴黎评论》上，她解释了她科学家一般精确的诗歌细读法和批评实践原则：“你必须以非常清晰的方式为你的假设提供证据；你的方程式必须是均衡的；左侧必须与右侧保持平衡。一件事必须导致下一件事，所有...(展开全部)

Learn the methods used by Yeats , February 4, 2008 By N. Gallo (western Massachusetts) Helen Vendler's analysis of Yeats' poetry is thorough and mind-boggling in detail. She deals with his early work by comparing it to its sources. She considers it fairly thought-free. His later work becomes more complex, very disciplined and captures the flavor of the times. The Irish war for...(展开全部)

Learn the methods used by Yeats , February 4, 2008 By N. Gallo (western Massachusetts) Helen Vendler's analysis of Yeats' poetry is thorough and mind-boggling in detail. She deals with his early work by comparing it to its sources. She considers it fairly thought-free. His later work becomes more complex, very disciplined and captures the flavor of the times. The Irish war for...(展开全部)

Chepstow's location by a crossing of the River Wye, close to the Severn Estuary, has meant that the Monmouthshire town has always occupied a strategically important position. A Norman castle still sta

Cambridge has a world-famous university, but the town's long history predates the coming of the scholars, beginning with the Romans, who first identified this as a good spot for a settlement. It was a

The job was too good. There had to be a problem - and there was. John Duncan was an honest man, but he needed money. He had children to look after. He was ready to do anything, and his bosses knew it. They gave him the job because he couldn't say no; he couldn't afford to be honest. And the job was like a poison inside him. It changed him and blinded him, so that he couldn't se...(展开全部)

The sprawling urban conurbation that is Swindon began life as an Anglo-Saxon defensible settlement atop a limestone hill. Old Swindon would likely have remained a sleepy market town were it not for th