Author: Hermann Hesse Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux ISBN: 9780374514235 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 89
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Written during the same period as The Glass Bead Game, these poems reflect the book's mysticism and help to illuminate Hesse's physical and metaphysical search for a "sublime alchemy" that would go beyond all images
Author: Janet S. Wong Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks ISBN: 9781416968160 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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In 15 poems, Wong records some of the many dreams--from the familiar to the outlandish and everywhere in between--that she or her friends have had. With Paschkis's paintings, which reflect the glowing colors of dreams, these nighttime visions create a garden, tempting to explore and evocative of dreams of our very own. Full color.
Author: Marta McDowell Publisher: Timber Press ISBN: 1604699752 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 375
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“A visual treat as well as a literary one…for gardeners and garden lovers, connoisseurs of botanical illustration, and those who seek a deeper understanding of the life and work of Emily Dickinson.” —The Wall Street Journal Emily Dickinson was a keen observer of the natural world, but less well known is the fact that she was also an avid gardener—sending fresh bouquets to friends, including pressed flowers in her letters, and studying botany at Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke. At her family home, she tended both a small glass conservatory and a flower garden. In Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life, award-winning author Marta McDowell explores Dickinson’s deep passion for plants and how it inspired and informed her writing. Tracing a year in the garden, the book reveals details few know about Dickinson and adds to our collective understanding of who she was as a person. By weaving together Dickinson’s poems, excerpts from letters, contemporary and historical photography, and botanical art, McDowell offers an enchanting new perspective on one of America’s most celebrated but enigmatic literary figures.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson Publisher: ISBN: 9781727867404 Category : Languages : en Pages : 346
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in his 1836 essay "Nature". Following this work, he gave a speech entitled "The American Scholar" in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America's "intellectual Declaration of Independence."Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first and then revised them for print. His first two collections of essays, Essays: First Series (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844), represent the core of his thinking. They include the well-known essays "Self-Reliance", "The Over-Soul", "Circles", "The Poet", and "Experience." Together with "Nature", these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period. Emerson wrote on a number of subjects, never espousing fixed philosophical tenets, but developing certain ideas such as individuality, freedom, the ability for mankind to realize almost anything, and the relationship between the soul and the surrounding world. Emerson's "nature" was more philosophical than naturalistic: "Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul." Emerson is one of several figures who "took a more pantheist or pandeist approach by rejecting views of God as separate from the world."
Author: Holly Schwartztol Publisher: ISBN: 9781951188108 Category : Languages : en Pages : 176
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The rhythms of life are metered like poetry; unknowable and mysterious. Like a garden-always changing, often surprising. Chronicling a life filled with tumultuous joy and deep sorrow, celebrations of friends, and fondness for places, Holly Schwartztol leads us along her garden path where one turn may reveal the perfect bloom, while another twist highlights a dried husk.She invokes brilliant images, personal notes, and vibrant personalities to take the reader into her universe-her garden-where the highs and lows of life are closely examined with a unique reality. You feel her emotions and suddenly you remember someone, a place, a moment, and realize that you, too, once had a reality almost like that. Holly makes a sharp point of contact in us, visualizing the garden path that we all must follow, acknowledging the rhythms of life that are part of the great discovery.
Author: Cicely Mary Barker Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0241457718 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 57
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Relive the beauty and magic of Cecily Mary Barker's Flower Fairies of the Spring, now with a brand new enchanting cover. Since the publication of Cicely Mary Barker's first book in 1923, the Flower Fairies have been ethereal companions to readers around the world. Her charming poetry and delicate illustrations have sparked the imaginations of children for over ninety years and continue to inspire a life-long love for fairies and all things magical.
Author: John Hollander Publisher: Everyman Chess ISBN: 9781857157277 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 256
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* In size, price, and elegant packaging, these books will ideal gifts * Beautiful 3-colour jacket designed to give a uniform look * Unique and highly distinctive black and white pattern on each spine * Full cloth, flexible covers * Sewn Binders * Silk Ribbon Markers and Headbands * Gold Stamping on front and spine * Decorative patterned endpapers * Newly designed typographic settings in classic typefaces * Portable format-size 61/4 x 4 ins (15. 75 x 10. 25 cm) * Cream-wove acid-free paper * 256pp each volume
Author: Hermann Hesse
Author: William Stanley Merwin
Author: Janet S. Wong
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Author: Holly Schwartztol
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