Author: Janet Warner
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466866047
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This is the imagined life of a woman who really lived in the late Eighteenth Century - Catherine Sophia Boucher, called Kate - wife of the English poet and artist, William Blake. If you read between the lines of his poetry and letters, this is a story you might find. Other Sorrows, Other Joys weaves fact and fiction to tell the story of Kate's search for identity in the shadow of a man who can "see a World in a Grain of Sand and Heaven in a Wild Flower." Conventional, innocent Kate struggles to understand the world around her in the midst of her visionary husband's free-thinking crusades for freedom in religion, in politics, in love. Janet Warner's original novel dramatically recreates the story of a poet and his spiritual companion and the mystic visions that haunt them both throughout their lives. As Kate works as Blake's assistant, printing and coloring his designs, she witnesses the psychic powers that distract William from earning a living. She endures the loss of a long-awaited child, Blake's fascination for gifted women, and his frightening trial for treason. Through Kate's eyes, we meet a parade of people prominent in 18th Century artistic circles during the time of the French Revolution, such as the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, Swiss painter Henry Fuseli, and the publisher Joseph Johnson - people whose intertwined lives were as unconventional as any Bohemians of a later time. Amidst these turbulent personal and political events, Warner reveals the compelling drama of Kate and William's marriage that survived it all.
Other Sorrows, Other Joys
Author: Janet Warner
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466866047
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This is the imagined life of a woman who really lived in the late Eighteenth Century - Catherine Sophia Boucher, called Kate - wife of the English poet and artist, William Blake. If you read between the lines of his poetry and letters, this is a story you might find. Other Sorrows, Other Joys weaves fact and fiction to tell the story of Kate's search for identity in the shadow of a man who can "see a World in a Grain of Sand and Heaven in a Wild Flower." Conventional, innocent Kate struggles to understand the world around her in the midst of her visionary husband's free-thinking crusades for freedom in religion, in politics, in love. Janet Warner's original novel dramatically recreates the story of a poet and his spiritual companion and the mystic visions that haunt them both throughout their lives. As Kate works as Blake's assistant, printing and coloring his designs, she witnesses the psychic powers that distract William from earning a living. She endures the loss of a long-awaited child, Blake's fascination for gifted women, and his frightening trial for treason. Through Kate's eyes, we meet a parade of people prominent in 18th Century artistic circles during the time of the French Revolution, such as the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, Swiss painter Henry Fuseli, and the publisher Joseph Johnson - people whose intertwined lives were as unconventional as any Bohemians of a later time. Amidst these turbulent personal and political events, Warner reveals the compelling drama of Kate and William's marriage that survived it all.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466866047
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This is the imagined life of a woman who really lived in the late Eighteenth Century - Catherine Sophia Boucher, called Kate - wife of the English poet and artist, William Blake. If you read between the lines of his poetry and letters, this is a story you might find. Other Sorrows, Other Joys weaves fact and fiction to tell the story of Kate's search for identity in the shadow of a man who can "see a World in a Grain of Sand and Heaven in a Wild Flower." Conventional, innocent Kate struggles to understand the world around her in the midst of her visionary husband's free-thinking crusades for freedom in religion, in politics, in love. Janet Warner's original novel dramatically recreates the story of a poet and his spiritual companion and the mystic visions that haunt them both throughout their lives. As Kate works as Blake's assistant, printing and coloring his designs, she witnesses the psychic powers that distract William from earning a living. She endures the loss of a long-awaited child, Blake's fascination for gifted women, and his frightening trial for treason. Through Kate's eyes, we meet a parade of people prominent in 18th Century artistic circles during the time of the French Revolution, such as the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, Swiss painter Henry Fuseli, and the publisher Joseph Johnson - people whose intertwined lives were as unconventional as any Bohemians of a later time. Amidst these turbulent personal and political events, Warner reveals the compelling drama of Kate and William's marriage that survived it all.
Other Sorrows, Other Joys
Author: Janet Warner
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312314408
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
A fictional account of the marriage of Catherine and William Blake follows an innocent Kate's ongoing search for an identity in the shadow of her husband's genius and his bohemian world of unconventional principles, visions, and free love.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312314408
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
A fictional account of the marriage of Catherine and William Blake follows an innocent Kate's ongoing search for an identity in the shadow of her husband's genius and his bohemian world of unconventional principles, visions, and free love.
The Book of (More) Delights
Author: Ross Gay
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1643755471
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1643755471
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.
The Prophet
Author: Kahlil Gibran
Publisher: Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 9390287820
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 9390287820
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
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.
Ten Thousand Joys & Ten Thousand Sorrows
Author: Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101443669
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"Ten Thousand Sorrows & Ten Thousand Joys offers a vision of lives well-led, and of love in the thick of crisis and loss. Beyond inspiring."-Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence "This beautiful book is unlike any other personal account of living with Alzheimer's disease that I have ever read . . . it offers patients and families practical insights into how they can live their lives more fully amidst the heartbreak of a mind-robbing illness."- Paul Raia, Director of Patient Care and Family Support, Alzheimer's Association, Massachusetts Chapter "A story of courage, love, and growing wisdom in the face of Alzheimer's."-Joseph Goldstein, author of One Dharma, Founder / Director of Insight Meditation Society In this profound and courageous memoir, Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle describes how her husband's Alzheimer's diagnosis at the age of seventy-two challenged them to live the spiritual teachings they had embraced during the course of their life together. Following a midlife career shift, Harrison Hobliztelle, or Hob as he was called, a former professor of comparative literature at Barnard, Columbia, and Brandeis University, became a family therapist and was ordained a Dharmacharya (senior teacher) by Thich Nhat Hanh. Hob comes to life in these pages as an incredibly funny and brilliant man who never stopped enjoying a good philosophical conversation-even as his mind, quite literally, slipped away from him. And yet when they first heard the diagnosis, Olivia and Hob's initial reaction was to cling desperately to the life they had had. But everything had changed, and they knew that the only answer was to greet this last phase of Hob's life consciously and lovingly. Ten Thousand Joys & Ten Thousand Sorrows provides a wise and compassionate vision for maintaining hope and grace in the face of life's greatest challenges. (This memoir was originally self-published as The Majesty of Your Loving.)
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101443669
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"Ten Thousand Sorrows & Ten Thousand Joys offers a vision of lives well-led, and of love in the thick of crisis and loss. Beyond inspiring."-Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence "This beautiful book is unlike any other personal account of living with Alzheimer's disease that I have ever read . . . it offers patients and families practical insights into how they can live their lives more fully amidst the heartbreak of a mind-robbing illness."- Paul Raia, Director of Patient Care and Family Support, Alzheimer's Association, Massachusetts Chapter "A story of courage, love, and growing wisdom in the face of Alzheimer's."-Joseph Goldstein, author of One Dharma, Founder / Director of Insight Meditation Society In this profound and courageous memoir, Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle describes how her husband's Alzheimer's diagnosis at the age of seventy-two challenged them to live the spiritual teachings they had embraced during the course of their life together. Following a midlife career shift, Harrison Hobliztelle, or Hob as he was called, a former professor of comparative literature at Barnard, Columbia, and Brandeis University, became a family therapist and was ordained a Dharmacharya (senior teacher) by Thich Nhat Hanh. Hob comes to life in these pages as an incredibly funny and brilliant man who never stopped enjoying a good philosophical conversation-even as his mind, quite literally, slipped away from him. And yet when they first heard the diagnosis, Olivia and Hob's initial reaction was to cling desperately to the life they had had. But everything had changed, and they knew that the only answer was to greet this last phase of Hob's life consciously and lovingly. Ten Thousand Joys & Ten Thousand Sorrows provides a wise and compassionate vision for maintaining hope and grace in the face of life's greatest challenges. (This memoir was originally self-published as The Majesty of Your Loving.)
Joys and Sorrows
Joy in the Sorrow: How a Thriving Church (and Its Pastor) Learned to Suffer Well
Author: Matt Chandler
Publisher: Good Book Company
ISBN: 9781784984229
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This is the moving story of Matt Chandler's battle with a potentially fatal brain tumor. But it's also the stories of those in his church family who taught him, and teach him, how to walk with joy in sorrow. Readers will find encouragement and strength to get through tough times, or to support others to do so.
Publisher: Good Book Company
ISBN: 9781784984229
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This is the moving story of Matt Chandler's battle with a potentially fatal brain tumor. But it's also the stories of those in his church family who taught him, and teach him, how to walk with joy in sorrow. Readers will find encouragement and strength to get through tough times, or to support others to do so.
Prefatory note. There is no natural religion. All religions are one. The marriage of heaven and hell. Visions of the daughters of Albion. A song of liberty. America. Europe. The book of Urizen. The book of Los Ahania. The song of Los. The four Zoas. Milton. Jerusalem. On Homer's poetry; On Virgil. Laocoŏn. The ghost of Able
Complete Writings
Author: William Blake
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192810502
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
This edition includes almost all Blake's substantive variants with the exception of some in the exceptionally complex manuscript of Vala, or the Four Zoas.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192810502
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
This edition includes almost all Blake's substantive variants with the exception of some in the exceptionally complex manuscript of Vala, or the Four Zoas.
The Complete Illuminated Books of William Blake (Unabridged - With All The Original Illustrations)
Author: William Blake
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 809
Book Description
In 'The Complete Illuminated Books of William Blake (Unabridged - With All The Original Illustrations)', readers are presented with a collection of works that showcase Blake's unique blend of poetry and visual artistry. The book includes his famous 'Songs of Innocence and Experience' as well as other lesser-known pieces, all of which are accompanied by his intricate hand-colored illustrations. In this volume, readers can immerse themselves in Blake's visionary world, where themes of spirituality, morality, and the human experience are explored with depth and nuance. Blake's writing style is characterized by its lyrical quality and profound symbolism, making each poem a rich and multi-layered reading experience. This collection is a treasure trove for lovers of poetry and art, offering a glimpse into the mind of one of the most enigmatic figures in British Romantic literature. William Blake, a visionary poet and artist, was known for his unconventional approach to creativity and his belief in the power of imagination. His works often challenged traditional norms and explored complex philosophical ideas. Blake's interest in mysticism and symbolism heavily influenced his writing, leading to the creation of works that are both thought-provoking and visually captivating. His illuminated books are a testament to his artistic genius and his ability to transcend conventional boundaries in both poetry and visual arts. I highly recommend 'The Complete Illuminated Books of William Blake' to anyone interested in exploring the intersection of poetry and visual art. This comprehensive collection showcases Blake's unparalleled creativity and offers a profound glimpse into the mind of a literary visionary. Readers will be captivated by the beauty and depth of Blake's works, making this book a must-read for enthusiasts of Romantic literature and art.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 809
Book Description
In 'The Complete Illuminated Books of William Blake (Unabridged - With All The Original Illustrations)', readers are presented with a collection of works that showcase Blake's unique blend of poetry and visual artistry. The book includes his famous 'Songs of Innocence and Experience' as well as other lesser-known pieces, all of which are accompanied by his intricate hand-colored illustrations. In this volume, readers can immerse themselves in Blake's visionary world, where themes of spirituality, morality, and the human experience are explored with depth and nuance. Blake's writing style is characterized by its lyrical quality and profound symbolism, making each poem a rich and multi-layered reading experience. This collection is a treasure trove for lovers of poetry and art, offering a glimpse into the mind of one of the most enigmatic figures in British Romantic literature. William Blake, a visionary poet and artist, was known for his unconventional approach to creativity and his belief in the power of imagination. His works often challenged traditional norms and explored complex philosophical ideas. Blake's interest in mysticism and symbolism heavily influenced his writing, leading to the creation of works that are both thought-provoking and visually captivating. His illuminated books are a testament to his artistic genius and his ability to transcend conventional boundaries in both poetry and visual arts. I highly recommend 'The Complete Illuminated Books of William Blake' to anyone interested in exploring the intersection of poetry and visual art. This comprehensive collection showcases Blake's unparalleled creativity and offers a profound glimpse into the mind of a literary visionary. Readers will be captivated by the beauty and depth of Blake's works, making this book a must-read for enthusiasts of Romantic literature and art.