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Many of these acts of special worship and most of the texts have escaped historical notice. National Prayers. Special Worship since the Reformation, in four volumes, provides the edited texts, commentaries and source notes for each of the nearly nine hundred occasions of special worship, and for each of the annual commemorations. The second volume, General Fasts, Thanksgivings and Special Prayers in the British Isles 1689-1870, contains the texts and commentaries for the numerous and frequent special prayers, fast days and thanksgivings during the wars which consolidated the 1688 revolution, through the long imperial wars of the eighteenth century, and the wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France, as well as prayers and thanksgivings associated with Jacobite risings, epidemics, socialunrest, and episodes in the lives of the kings and queens.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49630039277841,"sku":"GOR011878125","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0425071847.jpg?v=1750941862"},{"product_id":"after-the-fire-book-paul-zimmer-9780816640195","title":"After the Fire","description":"Looking back at a lifetime of rich experience from Wisconsin’s driftless hills    We all dream of finding the place we can be most ourselves, the landscape that seems to have been crafted just for us. The poet Paul Zimmer has found his: a farm in the driftless hills of southwestern Wisconsin, a region of rolling land and crooked rivers, \"driftless\" because here the great glaciers of the Patrician ice sheet split widely, leaving behind a heart-shaped area untouched by crushing ice. After the Fire is the story of Zimmer’s journey from his boyhood in the factory town of Canton, Ohio, and his days as a soldier during atomic tests in the Nevada desert, to his many years in the book business as a writer and publisher, and the rural tranquillity of his present life.      Zimmer juxtaposes timeless rustic subjects (tending the land, country people and their ways, the ever-changing beauty of his natural surroundings) with flashbacks to key moments: his first and only boxing match, hearing Count Basie play and discovering his lifelong love of jazz, his return to the France of his ancestors, his painful departure from the publishing world after forty years. These stories are full of humor and pathos, keen insights and poignant meditations, but the real center of the book is the abiding beauty of the driftless hills, the silence and peace that is the source of and reward for Zimmer’s hard-won wisdom. Above all, it is a meditation on the ways that nature provides deep meaning and solace, and a consideration of the importance of finding the right place.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49909440577809,"sku":"CIN081664019XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/081664019X.jpg?v=1750786682"},{"product_id":"importance-of-being-zimmer-book-paul-zimmer-9780578060705","title":"The Importance of Being Zimmer","description":"Poetry. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ZIMER brings together a selection from the more than 130 Zimmer poems published over the course of forty years, along with new ones never before published. Twenty- five years ago the poet Gerald Stern wrote, The publication of Zimmer's poems is a cause for rejoicing among American poets. It should be a cause for rejoicing in general if only they knew. I know of no poet whose poems are more loving, more wise, more beautiful. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ZIMER raffirms that truth and gives us more reason ever to rejoice.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50358222291217,"sku":"CIN0578060701G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0578060701.jpg?v=1751009384"},{"product_id":"crossing-to-sunlight-book-paul-zimmer-9780820318295","title":"Crossing to Sunlight","description":"A collection of more than 100 retrospective and recent poems, which spans the career of Paul Zimmer. 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It contains twenty-three poems not included in Zimmer's previous career-spanning work, \u003ci\u003eCrossing to Sunlight\u003c\/i\u003e, or, as Zimmer writes, a total of seventy-three poems, one for each of the years I have lived. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen \u003ci\u003eCrossing to Sunlight\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in 1997, the \u003ci\u003eGettysburg Review\u003c\/i\u003e described Zimmer as a poet who invests language with the vitality of desire and who unlike many poets in his generation, has forgone stylistic complacency and continued to explore the possibilities inherent in language. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeing a poet, says Zimmer, is perhaps the only courageous thing I have done in my life. 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