The Poet S Wife

Author : Judith Allnatt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446487891

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The Poet's Wife by Judith Allnatt Pdf

It is 1841. Patty is married to John Clare: peasant poet, genius and madman. Travelling home one day, Patty finds her husband sitting, footsore, at the side of the road, having absconded from a lunatic asylum over eighty miles away. Hopeful that his condition has improved, she takes his hands in delight but he fails to recognize her. She is devastated to discover that he has not returned home to find her, but to search for his childhood sweetheart, Mary Joyce, to whom he believes he is married. Patty still loves John deeply, but he seems lost to her, obsessed with the idealised image of a woman that she cannot possibly match. Plagued by jealousy, she seeks strength in memories: their whirlwind courtship, the poems John wrote for her, their shared affinity for the land. She must try to heal John's turbulent, unhappy soul and restore him to the man she married. But as John descends further into delusion and his behaviour becomes increasingly volatile, hope seems to be fading. Will she ever be able to conquer her own anger and hurt and reconcile with this man she now barely knows?

Author : David Austin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : English roses
ISBN : 1870673700

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David Austin's English Roses by David Austin Pdf

Fully illustrated, the charm of his English Roses comes across on every page, even if the reader has to imagine their scent. The Irish Garden Like its highly-respected companion in the series, Old Roses, this title draws the most useful information fr

Author : Mandy Sayer
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Married people
ISBN : 9781742373539

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Poet's Wife by Mandy Sayer Pdf

In the follow-up to her bestselling memoir, Dreamtime Alice, Mandy Sayer tells the story of the ten years she and Yusef Komunyakaa spent together, first as lovers, then as husband and wife.

Author : Ann Thwaite
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06
Category : Authors' spouses
ISBN : 0571252141

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Emily Tennyson by Ann Thwaite Pdf

It was as a small girl in Lincolnshire that Emily Sellwood first saw the boy Alfred Tennyson. Nearly thirty years later, in the year he became Poet Laureate, they married. What kept them apart and what eventually brought them together has never before been fully explored. This major biography radically alters the picture of the poet's relationship with his wife, establishing in detail the person Emily Tennyson was. It is the story of a remarkable family as well as a remarkable woman, bringing into the foreground a neglected and often misunderstood character a century after her death. 'Meeting Emily Tennyson in the pages of Thwaite's enthralling book is pure delight.' Sunday Express 'A finely and deeply researched work, and clearly a labour of love ...She tells an ever absorbing story, and throws much light on that fascinating social area in which high art and worldly power meet.' The Times 'This fat and well-documented book will quickly establish its place in bibliographies of essential Tennyson background.' Literary Review 'A magnificent, surprising biography.' Lynne Truss, Mail on Sunday

Author : Carol Ann Duffy
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571199952

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The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy Pdf

Mrs Midas, Queen Kong, Mrs Lazarus, the Kray sisters, and a huge cast of others startle with their wit, imagination, lyrical intuition and incisiveness.

Author : Rebecca Stonehill
Publisher : Bookouture
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781909490529

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The Poet's Wife by Rebecca Stonehill Pdf

Author : Mary Oppen
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0876853750

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Meaning a Life by Mary Oppen Pdf

The wife of the American poet George Oppen tells of their experiences traveling throughout America and of their associations with the Communist Party.

Author : Kahlil Gibran
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789390287826

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The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran Pdf

A book of poetic essays written in English, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is full of religious inspirations. With the twelve illustrations drawn by the author himself, the book took more than eleven years to be formulated and perfected and is Gibran's best-known work. It represents the height of his literary career as he came to be noted as ‘the Bard of Washington Street.’ Captivating and vivified with feeling, The Prophet has been translated into forty languages throughout the world, and is considered the most widely read book of the twentieth century. Its first edition of 1300 copies sold out within a month.

Author : Adam Foulds
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307399113

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The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds Pdf

Based on real events in Epping Forest on the edge of London around 1840, The Quickening Maze centres on the first incarceration of the great nature poet John Clare. After years struggling with alcohol, critical neglect and depression, Clare finds himself in High Beach Private Asylum – an institution run on reformist principles which would later become known as occupational therapy. At the same time another poet, the young Alfred Tennyson, moves nearby and becomes entangled in the life and catastrophic schemes of the asylum's owner, the peculiar, charismatic Dr Matthew Allen. For John Clare, a man who had grown up steeped in the freedoms and exhilarations of nature, who thought ‘the edge of the world was a day’s walk away’, a locked door is a kind of death. This intensely lyrical novel describes his vertiginous fall, through hallucinatory episodes of insanity and dissolving identity, towards his final madness. Historically accurate, but brilliantly imagined, the closed world of High Beach and its various inmates – the doctor, his lonely daughter in love with Tennyson, the brutish staff and John Clare himself – are brought vividly to life. Outside the walls is Nature, and Clare’s paradise: the birds and animals, the gypsies living in the forest; his dream of home, of redemption, of escape. Rapturous yet precise, exquisitely written, rich in character and detail, this is a remarkable and deeply affecting book: a visionary novel which contains a world.

Author : Sandra L. Katz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Authors' spouses
ISBN : UOM:39015024991914

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Elinor Frost, a Poet's Wife by Sandra L. Katz Pdf

Author : Marilyn Hacker
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995-03-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393351118

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Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons by Marilyn Hacker Pdf

This critically acclaimed sonnet sequence is the passionately intense story of a love affair between two women, from the electricity of their first acquaintance to the experience of their parting.

Author : Mandy Sayer
Publisher : House of Books
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Australians
ISBN : 1743314701

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Dreamtime Alice by Mandy Sayer Pdf

'I danced and danced because the neon light across the road had just blinked on, because it was the middle of spring, because I was twenty-one, because my father was playing beside me. . . .' In this vivid, seductive, gorgeously written memoir, Mandy Sayer recounts the fascinating years she spent performing on the streets of New York and New Orleans with her father. Gerry Sayer was a jazz drummer, a beguiling Irish charmer with a million stories and an insatiable love for jam sessions and all-night parties. Mandy grew up captivated by his outrageous tales even after he left the family for good and her mother descended into the distance of drink. When her siblings failed him by rejecting the bohemian performing life, Mandy saw her chance to become a character in his stories, part of the only life he really loved. So she learned to tap-dance, and they set off together to satisfy their grand ambitions on the toughest stage in the world - New York. Driven by their dream of making it big, Mandy and Gerry arrived in the city with no place to stay and only costumes to their names. They became part of the thrilling, precarious world of street performers - jugglers, magicians, fire-eaters, dancers - who eked out their livings at the mercy of the elements, the cops, complaining neighbors, and lurking thieves.

Author : Israel Gollancz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0341945420

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The Exeter Book by Israel Gollancz Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : David Park
Publisher : Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408846365

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The Poets' Wives by David Park Pdf

Three women, each destined to play the role of a poet's wife: Catherine, the wife of William Blake - a poet, painter and engraver who struggles for recognition in a society that dismisses him as a madman; Nadezhda, wife of Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, whose poetry costs him his life under Stalin; and the wife of a fictional contemporary Irish poet, who looks back on her marriage during the days after her husband's death as she seeks to fulfil his final wish. Across continents and centuries, they confront the contradictions between art and life, contemplate their emotional and physical sacrifices for another's creativity, and struggle with infidelities that involve not only the flesh, but ultimately poetry itself.

Author : David Park
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781620405260

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The Poets' Wives by David Park Pdf

What does it mean to be a poet's wife, his muse and lover, there for the heights of inspiration and the quotidian of the day-to-day, and often times, too, the drudgery of being in a supporting role to "the great man." In this exquisite and sensitive new novel, David Park explores this complicated relationship, through three well-crafted characters, two based on actual women: Catherine Blake, wife of William Blake, 19th-century poet, painter, and engraver, and Nadezhda Mandelstam, wife of Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, who died in a transit camp en route to Siberia during Stalin's rule. Park has also fashioned a fictional contemporary poet, whose wife looks back on her husband's life during the days just after his death. All three women deal with their husband's fame or notoriety. All three stick by their mates, taking seriously their commitment to the men they married, but also to assisting with and preserving their work. And this despite infidelities, despite a singlemindedness at the expense of others, and despite hardship sometimes beyond comprehension. Set across continents and centuries, under wildly different circumstances, these three women exist as a testament to love, to relationship despite the odds, and to art. An amazingly insightful novel.