William Palmer

Dean Memering

An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Writing, with Readings

Discovering Arguments

The Pardon of Saint Anne

'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding, faultless even' JIM CRACE 'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers and drink which displays the same subtle qualities as William Palmer's own undervalued novels' D. J. TAYLOR 'A vastly absorbing and entertaining study of this ever-interesting subject' ANDREW DAVIES, screenwriter and novelist 'In Love with Hell is a fascinating and beautifully written account of the lives of eleven British and American authors whose addiction to alcohol may have been a necessary adjunct to their writing but ruined their lives. Palmer's succinct biographies contain fine descriptions of the writers, their work and the times they lived in; and there are convincing insights into what led so many authors to take to drink.' PIERS PAUL READ Why do some writers destroy themselves by drinking alcohol? Before our health-conscious age it would be true to say that many writers drank what we now regard as excessive amounts. Graham Greene, for instance, drank on a daily basis quantities of spirits and wine and beer most doctors would consider as being dangerous to his health. But he was rarely out of control and lived with his considerable wits intact to the age of eighty-six. W. H. Auden drank the most of a bottle of spirits a day, but also worked hard and steadily every day until his death. Even T. S. Eliot, for all his pontifical demeanour, was extremely fond of gin and was once observed completely drunk on a London Tube station by a startled friend. These were not writers who are generally regarded as alcoholics. 'Alcoholic' is, in any case, a slippery word, as exemplified by Dylan Thomas's definition of an alcoholic as 'someone you dislike who drinks as much as you.' The word is still controversial and often misunderstood and misapplied. What acclaimed novelist and poet William Palmer's book is interested in is the effect that heavy drinking had on writers, how they lived with it and were sometimes destroyed by it, and how they described the whole private and social world of the drinker in their work. He looks at Patrick Hamilton ('the feverish magic that alcohol can work'); Jean Rhys ('As soon as I sober up I start again'); Charles Jackson ('Delirium is a disease of the night'); Malcolm Lowry ('I love hell. I can't wait to go back there'); Dylan Thomas ('A womb with a view'); John Cheever ('The singing of the bottles in the pantry'); Flann O'Brien ('A pint of plain is your only man'); Anthony Burgess ('Writing is an agony mitigated by drink'); Kingsley Amis ('Beer makes you drunk'); Richard Yates ('The road to Revolutionary Road'); and Elizabeth Bishop ('The writer's writer's writer').

Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers

In Love with Hell

The Patriarch and the Tsar

Testimonies concerning the patriarch Nicon, the tsar, and the boyars, from the Travels of the patriarch Macarius of Antioch, written in Arabic by his son and archdeacon Paul of Aleppo

Containing Details of His Conduct as School-boy, Medical-student, Racing-man, and Poisoner : with Original Letters of William and Anne Palmer, and Other Authentic Documents : Together with the Whole of His Private Diary Up to the Hour of His Arrest, and the Fullest Particulars Respecting His Execution at Stafford : Illustrated with Views, Portraits, and Representations of the Chief Incidents in His Career

Illustrated Life and Career of William Palmer, of Rugeley

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Containing Details of His Conduct as Schoolboy ... with Original Letters of William and Anne Palmer and Other Authentic Documents, Together with the Whole of His Private Diary ... ; Illustrated with Views, Portraits, and Representations of the Chief Incidents of His Career

Illustrated Life and Career of William Palmer of Rugeley

Illustrated Life and Career of William Palmer of Rugeley: Containing Details of His Conduct as Schoolboy, Medical Student, Racing-Man, and Poisoner; W

The Most Extraordinary Trial of William Palmer, for the Rugeley Poisonings, which Lasted Twelve Days

'Tekel': a letter to J.C. Philpot [by W. Palmer].

William Palmer was tried at the Central Criminal Court, London, May 1856, for the murder of John Parsons Cook.

John Henry Newman

John Keble

Edward Bouverie Pusey

Isaac Williams

Richard Hurrell Froude

Tracts for the Times

Origines Liturgicae : Or, Antiquities of the English Ritual and a Dissertation on Primitive Liturgies

And a Dissertation on Primitive Liturgies

Origines Liturgicae, Or Antiquities of the English Ritual, Volume 1, Third Edition

Or, Antiquities of the English Ritual : and a Dissertastion on Primitive Liturgies

Origines Liturgicæ

Origines Liturgicae, Or, Antiquities of the English Ritual

Presented at Calcutta, on the 12th May, 1824, to the Right Honourable Lord Amherst, Governor General &c. &c

The Memorial of William Palmer of Hyderabad, in the Territories of His Highness the Nizam, in the East Indies, on Behalf of Himself and His Partners

With a Harmony of Sacred and Egyptian Chronology, and an Appendix on Babylonian and Assyrian Antiquities

Egyptian Chronicles

My Story

Time and Place

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