It produced about forty books by more than twenty poets, including Pete Brown, Ed Dorn ( Gunslinger 1 & 2, 1970 ), Robert Duncan, Larry Eigner, Paul Evans, Roy Fisher, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Donald Gardner (* 1938, For the flames, 1974 ), Allen Ginsberg, Michael Hamburger, Lee Harwood, Spike Hawkins, Alan Jackson, David Jones, Christopher Middleton, Lorine Niedecker, Jeff Nuttall, George Oppen, Tom Pickard ( with a preface by Bunting ), Omar S. Pound, F. T. Prince, Tom Raworth, Jerome Rothenberg and Gary Snyder.

While Salieri followed the precepts set forth by Gluck and his librettist Ranieri de ' Calzabigi in the preface to Alceste ; Salieri also drew on some musical ideas from the more traditional opera-seria and even opera buffa, creating a new synthesis in the process.

In its prologue, the author gratuitously insulted Cervantes, who not surprisingly took offense and responded ; the last half of Chapter LIX and most of the following chapters of Cervantes ' Segunda Parte lend some insight into the effects upon him ; Cervantes manages to work in some subtle digs at Avellaneda's own work, and in his preface to Part II, comes very near to criticizing Avellaneda directly.

His attitude toward madrigals was somewhat enigmatic: whereas in the preface to his collection of Canticum canticorum ( Song of Songs ) motets ( 1584 ) he renounced the setting of profane texts, only two years later he was back in print with Book II of his secular madrigals ( some of these being among the finest compositions in the medium ).

Contains important, some 30 pages long, preface by Shaw.

A second edition of Pope's Shakespeare appeared in 1728, but aside from making some minor revisions to the preface, it seems that Pope had little to do with it.

In his preface to the New York Edition text of the novel, James placed this book at the top of his achievements, which has occasioned some critical disagreement.

The 4th century apocryphal text that is called the Acts of Pilate presents itself in a preface ( missing in some MSS ) as derived from the official acts preserved in the praetorium at Jerusalem.

" The preface has evidently been prepared by some one who had before him the completed text of the treatise.

Rogers compiled the completed work and added the preface, some marginal notes, a calendar and an almanac.

In the preface, the editors say, " Experience has shown that some older treasures were missed when the current hymnals were compiled ," a diplomatic way of saying, " It's all right to sing these songs in church.

After 1550, it was not printed again until 1813 except for Owen Rogers ' 1561 edition — a cheap knock-off of Crowley's text that omits the preface naming the author while adding — in some cases — Pierce the Ploughman's Crede.

By 1886, Nietzsche himself had reservations about the work, and he published a preface in the 1886 edition where he re-evaluated some of his main concerns and ideas in the text.

Vietnam War-era activists, such as Seymour Melman, referred frequently to the concept, and use continued throughout the Cold War: George F. Kennan wrote in his preface to Norman Cousins's 1987 book The Pathology of Power, " Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial complex would have to remain, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented.

Each remedy was tested thoroughly, the preface stated: “ Of the accuracy of the analytical data there can be no question ; the investigation has been carried out with great care by a skilled analytical chemist .” The book did lead to the end of some of the quack cures, but some survived the book by several decades.

Following some older work which he mentions in his preface, he abandoned the historical plan of giving the decrees of each council in order and arranged them on a philosophical principle, according to their matter.

Fell probably had some share in the composition of The Whole Duty of Man, and in the subsequent works published under the name of the author of The Whole Duty, which included Reasons of the Decay of Christian Piety, The Ladies ' Calling, The Gentleman's Calling, The Government of the Tongue, The Art of Contentment, and The Lively Oracles given us, all of which were published in one volume with notes and a preface by Fell in 1684.

However, as the preface ( p. vii ) this section was written by Karl Pearson-so maybe some of the credit should be given to KP.

In the preface he stated that " to make up a miscellany, some poems written by different authors are inserted.

As observed some centuries ago by John Arbuthnot ( in the preface of Of the Laws of Chance, 1692 ),

Although he stated in the preface that it was of the hand of Polydore Vergil, there has been some debate about the authorship of the work.

His manuscript material for Syriac was utilized in Robert Payne Smith's Thesaurus ; of the slips he collected for a projected Arabic, Persian and Turkish lexicon some account is given in the preface to Dozy, Supplément aux dictionaires arabes.

Based on Frescobaldi's preface to his first publication, the 1608 volume of madrigals, the composer also visited Antwerp, where local musicians, impressed with his music, persuaded him to publish at least some of it.

Aside from his masterful treatment of traditional forms, Frescobaldi is important for his numerous innovations, particularly in the field of tempo: unlike his predecessors, he would include in his pieces sections in contrasting tempi, and some of his publications include a lengthy preface detailing tempo-related aspects of performance.

As Levy summarized in the preface of Hackers, the general tenets or principles of hacker ethic include:

With the modern foundations for a general theory of systems following the World Wars, Ervin Laszlo, in the preface for Bertalanffy's book Perspectives on General System Theory, maintains that the translation of " general system theory " from German into English has " wrought a certain amount of havoc ".

The preface explains that the original concept of a general system theory was " Allgemeine Systemtheorie ( or Lehre )", pointing out the fact that " Theorie " ( or " Lehre ") just as " Wissenschaft " ( translated Scholarship ), " has a much broader meaning in German than the closest English words ‘ theory ’ and ‘ science '".

Korzybski wrote in the preface to the third edition of Science and Sanity ( 1947 ) that general semantics " turned out to be an empirical natural science.

By her divorce on 30 May 1996 she retained the style Her Royal Highness with the style of other divorced peeresses, eliminating the preface " The " before " Duchess of York "; however in August 1996, Letters patent were issued with general rules to regulate royal titles after divorce.

In 1590, Richard Harvey's The Lamb of God complained of the anti-Martinist pamphleteers in general, including a side-swipe at the Menaphon preface.

The intended audience for the work, to quote from the preface, " the general reader rather than the professional sailor ".

In the preface to the first edition Kant explains what he means by a critique of pure reason: " I do not mean by this a critique of books and systems, but of the faculty of reason in general, in respect of all knowledge after which it may strive independently of all experience.

At the same time, however, Turner included an account of their " uses and vertues ", and in his preface admits that some will accuse him of divulging to the general public what should have been reserved for a professional audience.

Self-described in its preface as " a scholarly, systematic, continuously revised summary of the knowledge that is most significant to mankind ", it was long considered one of the three major contemporary English-language general encyclopedias, together with Encyclopedia Americana and Encyclopædia Britannica: the three were sometimes collectively called " the ABCs ".

Each volume begins with a general history of the vessel, as preface to a set of detailed scale drawings showing every part of the interior and exterior, from keel to masthead.

After a serious illness in the summer of 1858, Hugo tried to reassure Hetzel by writing in a more straightforwardly narrative vein ( e. g. Le Petit Roi de Galice and Zim-Zizimi ), and modified his plans — but retained the general ambition, which he declared in a preface.

It consisted of “ a Foreword by The President, Mr. Ross Thomas ; a preface by Mr. W. Fingigan, and an introductory article on Australian birds in general by Mr. A. Chisholm.

When the French government decided on printing a general catalogue of the printed books in the Bibliothèque, Delisle became responsible for this undertaking and took an active part in the work ; in the preface to the first volume ( 1897 ) he gave a detailed history of the library and its management.

Jones expanded his propositions to create 37 “ general principles in the arrangement of form and colour in architecture and the decorative arts ” which became the preface to the 20 chapters of The Grammar of Ornament.

Sedgwick added a 400 + page preface to the 5th edition of his Discourse on the Studies of the University of Cambridge ( 1850 ), including a lengthy attack on Vestiges and theories of development in general.

Sayers points out in the preface that all the places in the story are real places, and it is a fact that almost all the locations can be recognized and visited to this day.

He is most famous for his " Six points to consider when judging a painting " ( 绘画六法, Pinyin: Huìhuà Liùfǎ ), taken from the preface to his book " The Record of the Classification of Old Painters " ( 古画品录 ; Pinyin: Gǔhuà Pǐnlù ).

In the preface to his Englische Verfassungsgeschichte, Gneist writes that he was brought up " in the laborious and rigid school of Prussian judges, at a time when the duty of formulating the matter in litigation was entailed upon the judge who personally conducted the pleadings, I became acquainted both with the advantages possessed by the Prussian bureau system as also with its weak points.

The original document included a cover sheet, the declaration, the treaty ( containing the preface and twenty six points ) and the signatures of the delegations that signed it.

Following the declaration, is the treaty itself consisting of a preface and twenty six points.

Eggers points out to his readers what parts of the book were fictionalized or exaggerated in the course of the book and the preface, and the shifts from actual conversations to mere dramatizations of Eggers ' thought processes are dramatic enough to be quickly recognizable when they occur, though other fictionalized aspects of the book are not always as easy to spot.

The extensive preface to the play points out that there is another dilemma: poor doctors are easily tempted to perform costly but useless ( and in the best case harmless ) operations or treatments on their patients for personal gain.

In the summer he became bogged down with the proofs of his preface about Erasmus, and Henrietta edited out controversial points.

The mad English of All About H. Hatterr is a thoroughly self-conscious and finely controlled performance, as Anthony Burgess points out in its preface: