Author: J. A.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Arts of Life ... Described in a series of letters ... By the author of Evenings at Home. The second edition. The first letter signed: J. A., i.e. John Aikin, M.D.
Author: J. A.The Arts of Life, Described in a Series of Letters:
Author: John AikinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Letter to Artists
Author: John Paul IIPublisher: LiturgyTrainingPublications
ISBN: 9781568543383
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Meeting House Essays in a series of papers reflecting on the mystery, beauty and practicalities of the place of worship. This popular series was begun in 1991, and each resource focuses on a particular aspect of space, design or materials and how they relate to the liturgy.
Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters
Author: Rosanna WarrenPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393247376
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
A comprehensive and moving biography of Max Jacob, a brilliant cubist poet who lived at the margins of fame. Though less of a household name than his contemporaries in early twentieth century Paris, Jewish homosexual poet Max Jacob was Pablo Picasso’s initiator into French culture, Guillaume Apollinaire’s guide out of the haze of symbolism, and Jean Cocteau’s loyal friend. As Picasso reinvented painting, Jacob helped to reinvent poetry with compressed, hard-edged prose poems and synapse-skipping verse lyrics, the product of a complex amalgamation of Jewish, Breton, Parisian, and Roman Catholic influences. In Max Jacob, the poet’s life plays out against the vivid backdrop of bohemian Paris from the turn of the twentieth century through the divisions of World War II. Acclaimed poet Rosanna Warren transports us to Picasso’s ramshackle studio in Montmartre, where Cubism was born; introduces the artists gathered at a seedy bar on the left bank, where Max would often hold court; and offers a front-row seat to the artistic squabbles that shaped the Modernist movement. Jacob’s complex understanding of faith, art, and sexuality animates this sweeping work. In 1909, he saw a vision of Christ in his shabby room in Montmartre, and in 1915 he converted formally from Judaism to Catholicism—with Picasso as his godfather. In his later years, Jacob split his time between Paris and the monastery of Benoît-sur-Loire. In February 1944, he was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Drancy, where he would die a few days later. More than thirty years in the making, this landmark biography offers a compelling, tragic portrait of Jacob as a man and as an artist alongside a rich study of his groundbreaking poetry—in Warren’s own stunning translations. Max Jacob is a nuanced, deeply researched, and essential contribution to Modernist scholarship.
Lost Letters of Medieval Life
Author: Martha CarlinPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812244591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Drawn from two medieval collections of form letters for all manner of business and personal affairs, Lost Letters of Medieval Life depicts early thirteenth-century England through the everyday correspondence of people of all classes, from peasants and shopkeepers to bishops and earls.
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Author: Paul EliePublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374529215
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Elie tells the story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God: Thomas Merton; Dorothy Day; Walker Percy; and Flannery OConnor.
George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals
Author: George EliotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
George Eliot-s Life, as Related in her Letters and Journals
Author: Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108020062
Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Offers a digitally printed version of the 1885 autobiography of George Eliot, which is a collection of journals and letters that was compiled by the author's husband after her death.
The Life and Letters
Author: Irving FeldmanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226240671
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Reflections on life from a perspicacious observer, the subjects ranging from love to murder. In Theme Park America, he writes: "it's interesting / he's not screaming now / he's doubled over / and we don't have to worry / what it means / nothing is supposed to mean / that will come later / when there's more information / about the information."
Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946-1951)
Author: Benjamin BrittenPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571279937
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 781
Book Description
The third volume of the annotated selected letters of composer Benjamin Britten covers the years 1946-51, during which he wrote many of his best-known works, founded and developed the English Opera Group and the Aldeburgh Festival, and toured widely in Europe and the United States as a pianist and conductor.Correspondents include librettists Ronald Duncan (The Rape of Lucretia), Eric Crozier (Albert Herring, Saint Nicolas, The Little Sweep) and E. M. Forster (Billy Budd); conductor Ernest Ansermet and composer Lennox Berkeley; publishers Ralph Hawkes and Erwin Stein of Boosey & Hawkes; and the celebrated tenor Peter Pears, Britten's partner. Among friends in the United States are Christopher Isherwood, Elizabeth Mayer and Aaron Copland, and there is a significant meeting with Igor Stravinsky.This often startling and innovative period is vividly evoked by the comprehensive and scholarly annotations, which offer a wide range of detailed information fascinating for both the Britten specialist and the general reader.Donald Mitchell contributes a challenging introduction exploring the interaction of life and work in Britten's creativity, and an essay examining for the first time, through their correspondence, the complex relationship between the composer and the writer Edward Sackville-West.