The Memoirs Of Laetitia Horsepole
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The Memoirs Of Laetitia Horsepole
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Author : John Fuller
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2015-05-14
The Memoirs Of Laetitia Horsepole written by John Fuller and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-14 with Fiction categories.
Discovered in the secret compartment of a North Italian cabinet, this enchanting manuscript may or may not be complete, and it may or may not be intended for posterity. Undeterred by these uncertainties, John Fuller gives us the early nineteenth-century 'memoirs' of Laetitia Horsepole, painter, philosopher and femme fatale. Shelley, apparently, came across this formidable woman, aged ninety, on his travels through Italy, and became her confidant and neighbour. Why, the reader may wonder, is she not better known? Why indeed? That long spell in Madagascar certainly interrupted her career. She was prickly and disinclined to ingratiate herself with the arbiters of fashionable taste. And then her virtual disappearance to Italy didn't help matters. But her obscurity gives added piquancy to the memoirs which - her idiosyncratic art theory and philosophy apart - are above all a dramatic eighteenth-century adventure in five acts which reflect her tempestuous involvement with the five 'husbands' of her life, from the brutish Crowther and the dull and the rich but louche Count Chiavari. Laetitia reflects on the vagaries of love and erotic involvement, on art and men, on flora and fauna, and reveals for the first time what actually happened in Madagascar. Shamelessly enjoyable, teasingly allusive, irresistibly funny and sometimes sad, Laetitia's is quite simply a brilliant and bewitching romance full of truths that lie deeper than fact.
The Oxford Handbook Of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Author : Madeleine Callaghan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2013
The Oxford Handbook Of Percy Bysshe Shelley written by Madeleine Callaghan and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
The book is an authoritative and up-to-date collection of original essays on one of the greatest of all English poets, Percy Bysshe Shelley. It covers a wide range of topics, exploring Shelley's life and work from various angles.
International Who S Who In Poetry 2005
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Author : Europa Publications
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2004
International Who S Who In Poetry 2005 written by Europa Publications and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.
Ghosts
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Author : John Fuller
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-06-30
Ghosts written by John Fuller and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Like the possible phantoms that stalk the dark passageways of its title poem, John Fuller's beautifully lucid collection explores the grey area between life and death. Full of self-deprecating wit and subtle insight, the poems contemplate the inevitability that, when one reaches a certain age, the moment of one's own passing will start to haunt one. In 'Flea Market' there is the pathos of once-loved objects laid out, meaningless, 'on the cobbles for scavengers'. In 'Positions in the Bed', the restless search for a comfortable way to sleep leads to thoughts of the morning when 'we find/ Ourselves absconded from the body's/ Weary roll-call'. And yet, out of this sense of mortality, grows a determination to take delight in the moment, to appreciate fully 'the business of living'. These poems are not only intimate, domestic and often funny, they are uncompromising in the way they confront the huge and unanswerable questions of life. The movement of thought is rendered beautifully concrete in the intricate music of their langauge, and melancholy co-exists with a lightness of touch that builds a moving and humane barricade against 'life's brevity/ And it's insignificance'. Shortlisted for the Whitbread Award for Poetry.
Who Is Ozymandias
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Author : John Fuller
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-05-12
Who Is Ozymandias written by John Fuller and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Part of the pleasure of poetry is unravelling the mysteries and difficulties it contains and solving the puzzles that lie within. Who, for instance, is Ozymandias? What is the Snark? Who is the Emperor of Ice-Cream? Or indeed, who is 'you' in a poem? In this perceptive and playful new book, acclaimed poet John Fuller looks at some of our greatest poems and considers the number of individual puzzles at their heart, casting light on how we should approach these conundrums as readers. From riddling to double entendres, mysterious titles to red herrings, Fuller unpicks the puzzles in works that range from Browning to Bishop, Empson to Eliot, Shelley to Stevens, to help us reach the rewards and revelations that lie at the centre of some of our best-loved poems.
Asleep And Awake
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Author : John Fuller
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2020-12-03
Asleep And Awake written by John Fuller and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-03 with Poetry categories.
An elegantly jubilant and personal new collection celebrating love, life and creativity from award-winning poet and Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist, John Fuller In this personal and characteristically brilliant new collection from John Fuller, an abundance of memories abound. From “those once endless years” of a childhood in wartime – tasting of Granny’s chicken soup, twizzers and cherry-go-rips – to the pattern of family and friendships, important milestones are brought to vivid life. In ‘Before We Met – and After’ a sequence of recollections cherish a wife on her eightieth birthday; ‘In Whose Head’ a piece by Schumann is revisited through advancing years; and in ‘Keeper of the Fire’ and ‘In Memory of John Bayley’ late poems of remembrance memorialise lost friends. These are poems of being and time, full of lyric feeling and Fuller’s distinctive wit and lightness of touch. Alive with the clang and sway of the “chosen colours of daily family life”, together they form a resonant gathering of poems that celebrate, with thoughtfulness and joy, “the feel and length of our lives”.
A Dictionary Of Writers And Their Works
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Author : Christopher Riches
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-29
A Dictionary Of Writers And Their Works written by Christopher Riches and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-29 with True Crime categories.
Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.
New Selected Poems
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Author : John Fuller
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-10-04
New Selected Poems written by John Fuller and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
This rich selection of John Fuller’s poems, made by the author himself, is taken from his last eight collections and spans over twenty-five years of work. 'Everything goes back to earth,' writes Fuller, 'But first it must dance / Dance to exhaustion.' His poems, brilliant in their dexterity and virtuoso in their use of form, engage with a spectacular range of subjects, revealing a dark, haunted imagination leavened by moments of exuberant levity. Taken together, they form an elegant, enquiring and accomplished body of work, and one that confirms John Fuller as a significant and influential figure in British poetry.
The Bone Flowers
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Author : John Fuller
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2017-01-05
The Bone Flowers written by John Fuller and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-05 with Poetry categories.
‘When does a poem end?’ In this rambunctious romp of a narrative poem, John Fuller taps out the rhythms of life against the riddle of time: from his story of opportunistic art-dealer Old Billy Emerald and his fabled Shakespeare manuscript, to the ghosts of great poets and remembrances of old friends. The Bone Flowers is a resonant celebration of the things we leave behind – in art, music and poetry – as well as a stirring memento mori to gather our rosebuds while we may.
The Space Of Joy
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Author : John Fuller
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2015-05-14
The Space Of Joy written by John Fuller and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Space of Joy is a sequence of poems that recounts the endless desire for love (and the failures and compromises that accompany that desire) in a number of writers and musicians who fatally prioritise their art. It begins with Petrarch, who created great lyric poetry out of an impossible infatuation, and moves through Coleridge's self-induced guilt within domestic happiness, Matthew Arnold's disbelief in mutual love, Brahm's self-delusion and the complexities of Wallace Stevens's marriage. It so happens that both Brahms and Arnold found themselves contemplating their art and their lives in the small Swiss town of Thun, and it is Thun that provides the setting for the wonderful concluding poem of this collection in which Fuller thinks back to his own boyood and his parents' marriage. If there is any resolution in this sequence of magnificently playful and thought-provoking poems, it is the conviction that while 'poetry may be the only heaven we have', it is life itself that must create the 'space of joy' which art wishes to celebrate. Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award.