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Scientists seek global warming clues from dead explorers' notes
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THE diaries of long-dead Arctic explorers are being used to unlock
the secrets of the earth's future.
A team of scientists has examined the log books of polar
adventurers going back five centuries to measure the movement of the
ice cap, a key indicator of global warming.
Their preliminary findings provide a fascinating insight into the
ebb and flow of the ice over the centuries.
They have discovered that 135 years ago the ice cap was 50 per
cent bigger than it is today.
However, when researchers from the Arctic Climate System Study
looked back to 1700 they found the levels of sea ice were ...
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The Metaphysical Poets. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; The Metaphysical Poets. David Reid...but it is these poets' interest in themselves...text looks at each poet in turn and each...analysis of that poet's work with particular...to the study of Metaphysical poets' and seeks to help...
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'Empire Falls' Wins Fiction Pulitzer; 'Metaphysical Club,' Composer Brant, Poet Carl Dennis Take Arts Prizes
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...Empire Falls." "All of this work will have to get done," he said, "prizes or no prizes." Louis Menand's "The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America" took top honors in history. Menand, 50, is a staff writer at the New Yorker. According...
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Poet grasps the physical and the metaphysical
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail
; ...our most accomplished living poets, having received the 2000...outstanding generation of black poets that includes Michael S. Harper...Yusef Komunyakaa. Like these poets, Wright is a passionate and...scientific knowledge of soil. His metaphysical and religious symbolism in...
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Laureate of the Metaphysical
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...the chance to read a major poet whose dark, complex, and...s more, Szymborska is a poet who comes across unusually...Donne. Like the 17th-century Metaphysical poet, Szymborska works by wrenching...to the concerns of American poets such as A.R. Ammons. Szymborska...
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The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry: The Clark Lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1926, and the Turnbull Lectures at The John Hopkins University, 1933. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: ANQ
; ...traditional definition of metaphysical poetry might profitably...the essay on that poet in The Sacred Wood...and ideas from "The Metaphysical Poets" (1921) are revived...the definition of metaphysical poetry as "a direct...
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The Metaphysical Sonnets of John Donne and Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Early Modern Literary Studies
; ...Kay, Magda. "The Metaphysical Sonnets of John Donne...contested term "metaphysical." They are exceptional...s sacrifice. Both poets work out their ideas...further prevents both poet and reader from supplying...presented. I. The Poets Donne and Sep were...harmony. The term ...
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Mobius Strip Joints; Cryptic One Waxes Metaphysical
Magazine article from: The Stranger
; ...self-conscious. A member of the Atoms Family clique, he's part of underground hiphop's elite metaphysical-metaphor force, a postmodern poet who could spit insightfully about his own saliva. His brilliant new album, The Anti--Mobius...
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Books: The metaphysical artful dodger World Enough and Time: The Life of Andrew Marvell by Nicholas Murray Little, Brown pounds 20
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...conceit. Was the surname of the poet Andrew Marvell, greatest of the so called metaphysical school, really spelled like...Because Andrew Marvell, lyric poet in his youth and savage satirist...though a committed pastoral poet, he was forever playing with...
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Art of the metaphysical: from the outside looking in
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...Apollinaire first used the word ''metaphysical'' in print to describe the...of De Chirico, a term the poet had very possibly heard the...Pittura Metafisica'' (Metaphysical Painting) became the accepted...Chirico embarked on his first Metaphysical work, making this year something...
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A Poet Comes Home: Thomas Traherne, Theologian in a New Century
Magazine article from: Anglican Theological Review
; ...seventeenth-century Anglican priest and poet best known for his writings on...optimist. Often discussed as a metaphysical poet, a mystic, even as a heretic...website. He has been discussed as a metaphysical poet, a pre-Romantic, a mystic...
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