Most Popular Books by Jacques Barzun

Jacques Barzun is the author of Music Into Words (1953), Essays on Walter Prescott Webb and the Teaching of History (1985), What Man Has Built (1965), A History of the Faculty of Philosophy, Columbia University (1957), An Essay on French Verse (1991).

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Essays on Walter Prescott Webb and the Teaching of History

Essays on Walter Prescott Webb and the Teaching of History
Walter Prescott Webb''s contributions to the study of history, detailing the direction historical studies have taken since Webb wrote. Webb''s historiography and its relationship to classroom instruction is the subject of the second essay, by Elliott West. An appreciation of Webb and a sense of his teaching style are offered by Anne M. Butler and Richard A. Baker, while Dennis Reinhartz discusses the use of maps in the classroom, a practice to which Webb was committed. In a postscript, Llerena Friend writes a personal tribute to her mentor and colleague.

An Essay on French Verse

release date: Jan 01, 1991
An Essay on French Verse
In An Essay on French Verse-For Readers of English Poetry, Jacques Barzun addresses the baffling English prejudice against French poetry. Barzun''s many-faceted and entertaining study muses on six hundred years of French verse, its rules and forms and how they evolved. It also has significant sections on the French language itself, its sounds and difficulties; on verse music in language generally; on the character and achievements of the greatest French poets; and finally, on the social and political conditions that encouraged successive innovations, including the prevailing wordwide practice of free verse. The Essay, moreover, draws not only on a lifetime''s reading, but on personal reminiscences as well: of stuffy poetry lessons in the French lycée; of the poet Apollinaire expounding his views on language to amuse the child sitting on his knee; of the author''s great-grandmother telling him about proper French pronunciation, as it was in her youth, eighty years earlier. In sum, Barzun''s book goes a long way toward answering the question posed in 1917 by A. E. Housman to André Gide: How is it that every nation has produced poetry except France?

The Sciences and the Humanities in the Schools After a Decade of Reform

Education in the Nation's Service

release date: May 01, 2012
Education in the Nation's Service
Additional Contributing Authors Include Archibald MacLeish, M. Bundy, R. F. Goheen, And Many Others.

Del amanecer a la decadencia

release date: Aug 03, 2017
Del amanecer a la decadencia
La obra cumbre del historiador Jacques Barzun es una magnífica síntesis de nuestra historia moderna: un apasionante recorrido de Occidente desde el Renacimiento y la Reforma hasta nuestros días. El historiador Jacques Barzun, reconocido internacionalmente por sus más de treinta obras sobre historia y crítica cultural, nos ofrece en una narración única la suma de sus descubrimientos y conclusiones sobre la cultura de Occidente desde el año 1500. Describe la forja del hombre occidental a partir del Renacimiento y la Reforma hasta el presente, bajo una doble luz: la de aquellos tiempos y la de nuestros intereses en los albores del siglo XXI. Los triunfos y derrotas ocurridos en esos quinientos años conforman una inspiradasaga que modifica la visión de este periodo como una época de opresión por parte de los hombres blancos europeos. Las mujeres y sus proezas son sobresalientes, y la libertad (incluso la sexual) no es un invento de las últimas décadas. Y cuando Barzun valora el presente como declive y no como culminación, no lo hace en absoluto como un profeta apocalíptico. Por el contrario, muestra que la decadencia es el cierre inevitable de las grandes épocas, condición necesaria para la creación de la novedad, que surgirá pronto, tal vez mañana. La crítica ha dicho : «Sin duda alguna, este libro sobrevivirá para deleitar y provocar a los lectores del siglo XXI; incluso asombrara a los del siglo XXII por su preclaridad.» The New York Times Book Review «Este libro pasará a la Historia... Supone el triunfo de la sabiduría sin ataduras.» Newsweek «¿Cuántasveces en la vida se encuentra uno frente a una obra maestra? Esta obra, sin ninguna duda, lo es.» National Review

From Dawn to Decadence

release date: Jan 01, 2011
From Dawn to Decadence
This narrative, intersperses the author''s analysis of wars, philosophy, science, manners, sex, religion, morals and art; from the Reformation to the present day. Included are biographical sketches of influential historical figures.

The Art and Pleasure of Listening, by Jacques Barzun. [Plaquette de Disque].

Race: A study in superstition, Jacques Barzun

The Academic Marketplace ... With a Foreword by Jacques Barzun. (Fourth Printing.).

Music Into Words, a Lecture Delivered by Jacques Barzun,... October 23, 1951

Edited and with an Introduction by Jacques Barzun. Pleasures of Music, an Anthology of Writing about Music and Musicians from Cellini to Bernard Shaw

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