Product Description: The Earliest English provides a student-friendly introduction to Old English and the earliest periods of the history of the English Language as it evolved before 1215. Using non-technical language, the book covers basic terminology, the linguistic and cultural backgrounds to the emergence and development of OE, and the OE vocabulary that students studying this phase of the English language need to know...read more

Product Description: In this lyrical narrative on the mysteries of fly fishing, McCully shares his fly-fishing journey, beginning in his small boy's imagination and growing into his adult life. Winner of The Angling Writer's Association Book of the Year Award 1999

Product Description: Written at the end of 1999, when Chris McCully was hospitalised and treated for alcoholism for the third time, and during 2003, when he left England to begin a new career as a writer in the Netherlands, this is an honest, and at times painful, account of his ongoing recovery...read more

Product Description: This is a book of poems with a specific aim: to analyze the power of illusion. It shows how the power of illusion is generated not from cultural forces but from the demands of individual choice in the face of implacable circumstance, and considers the Christian guarantee of salvation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: How does a poet go about writing poetry? Chris McCully, himself a poet and teacher of poetry, put this question to thirteen of Britain's most distinguished practitioners, who discuss in these informal essays the techniques of writing poetry, how they structure their writing - the choice of words, sounds (phonology), metrics (or non-metrics), and some of the processes of poetic genesis and re-writing...read more

Product Description: A guide to the language and history of fly-fishing. Fly-fishing has one of the longest histories of any pastime, and one of the most extensive literatures. The book is for people interested in words, as well as those who like to catch fish.

The essential guide to fly-fishing terms

Product Description: This book is an introduction to the theory of metrical phonology, one of the most exciting developments in linguistic theory in the last decade. Metrical phonology has revolutionised our ideas and knowledge of such phenomena as stress patterning, and contributed to a better understanding of quite basic phonological issues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)