MacCarthy, Fiona:The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
- Taschenbuch 2023, ISBN: 9780571228614
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Istanbul: ISAM, 2015. Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 12 cm). Edition in Turkish. 184 p. Divan edebiyati. Diwan literature. Divan… Mehr…
Istanbul: ISAM, 2015. Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 12 cm). Edition in Turkish. 184 p. Divan edebiyati. Diwan literature. Divan literature is an important branch of Turkish literature developing within Islamic civilization. In this work, the living master of the classical Turkish literature, Ömer Faruk Akün examines this unique form of literature which continued without interruption for six centuries from the end of the Anatolian Seljuks to the Ottomans. The writer discusses the conditions that paved the way for divan literature and its formation process, the verse forms that founded divan poetry, the literary discipline that raised divan poets, and the context and aesthetics in divan poetry that defined the tradition. An example of Akün's interpretation of the verse forms of divan literature may be gleaned from the following quotation: "This literature is composed of odes by the court poets praising emperors, lyrics in each of which an unchanging and ideal beauty is described and the pains of a platonic love are singed gently, demure terci'-bend and terkib-bends, rubâîs that squeeze emotions and thoughts most densely into a small volume, and mathnavis that tell of love aff airs, the heroes and heroins of which are always the same."., ISAM, 2015, 6, Paperback / softback. New., 6, New., 6, New., 6, New York:: Dorset Press, (1989)., 1989. 8vo. x, 2], 243 pp. Frontis. portrait, 16 plates, index. Cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket. Near fine. ISBN: 0880294450 "John Dee was Renaissance England's first Hermetic magus, a philosopher-magician. He was also a respected practical scientist, an immensely learned man who investigated all areas of knowledge. In this fine biography, Peter French shows that not only magic and science, but geography, antiquarianism, theology and the fine arts were fields in which Dee was deeply involved." / "Through his teaching, writing and friendships with many of the most important figures of the age, Dee was at the centre of great affairs and had a profound influence on major developments in sixteenth-century England. Peter French places this extraordinary individual within his proper historical context, describing the whole world of Renaissance science, Platonism and Hermetic magic." Reviews: 'A remarkable book.' -- Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Times; 'This scholarly book, based on impressive original research . . . ' -- Frances Yates, New York Review of Books. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 John Dee's Reputation -- 2 The Development of an English Magus -- 3 Elizabethan England's Greatest Library -- 4 John Dee and the Hermetic Philosophy -- 5 Magic, Science and Religion -- 6 John Dee and the Sidney Circle -- 7 John Dee and the Mechanicians: Applied Science in Elizabethan England -- 8 John Dee as an Antiquarian -- Conclusion -- Bibliography., Dorset Press, (1989)., 1989, 0, New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2023. Trade paperback. Light shelfwear. Very Good. xiv + 1053 pp. Intro, notes, appendices, sources, index. Nearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. Believing he could do "more in dreams than Napoleon," yet haunted by the specter of hereditary madness, Pessoa invented dozens of alter egos, or "heteronyms," under whose names he wrote in Portuguese, English, and French. Unsurprisingly, this "most multifarious of writers" (Guardian) has long eluded a definitive biographer-but in renowned translator and Pessoa scholar Richard Zenith, he has met his match. Relatively unknown in his lifetime, Pessoa was all but destined for literary oblivion when the arc of his afterlife bent, suddenly and improbably, toward greatness, with the discovery of some 25,000 unpublished papers left in a large, wooden trunk. Drawing on this vast archive of sources as well as on unpublished family letters, and skillfully setting the poet's life against the nationalist currents of twentieth-century European history, Zenith at last reveals the true depths of Pessoa's teeming imagination and literary genius. Much as Nobel laureate José Saramago brought a single heteronym to life in The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, Zenith traces the backstories of virtually all of Pessoa's imagined personalities, demonstrating how they were projections, spin-offs, or metamorphoses of Pessoa himself. A solitary man who had only one, ultimately platonic love affair, Pessoa used his and his heteronyms' writings to explore questions of sexuality, to obsessively search after spiritual truth, and to try to chart a way forward for a benighted and politically agitated Portugal. Although he preferred the world of his mind, Pessoa was nonetheless a man of the places he inhabited, including not only Lisbon but also turn-of-the-century Durban, South Africa, where he spent nine years as a child. Zenith re-creates the drama of Pessoa's adolescence-when the first heteronyms emerged-and his bumbling attempts to survive as a translator and publisher. Zenith introduces us, too, to Pessoa's bohemian circle of friends, and to Ophelia Quieroz, with whom he exchanged numerous love letters. Pessoa reveals in equal force the poet's unwavering commitment to defending homosexual writers whose books had been banned, as well as his courageous opposition to Salazar, the Portuguese dictator, toward the end of his life. In stunning, magisterial prose, Zenith contextualizes Pessoa's posthumous literary achievements-especially his most renowned work, The Book of Disquiet. A modern literary masterpiece, Pessoa simultaneously immortalizes the life of a literary maestro and confirms the enduring power of Pessoa's work to speak prophetically to the disconnectedness of our modern world., Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2023, 3, Québec: MCGill-Queen's University Press, 1990 First Edition. 136 pp, small 4to (10 1/4" H). B&w illustrations. « The story begins in autumn 1872 with Julie's school days and takes us through Christmas and the building of a snow fort at the foot of the Citadel in Québec City. During Easter week there is the marvellous annual sleigh trip to the sugar bush near Montmorency where the children eat fresh maple syrup, cooled by being poured onto the snow. In early spring, Henri joins a log drive and sees a log jam freed by dynamite. Come summer, the family goes by river boat up the St Lawrence to their summer home near Pointe Platon on the Seigneury de Lotbinière, sixty kilometres north of Québec City. While on the family seigneury the children find an old-fashioned flat-bottomed boat which they name the Rancid Butter because of the smell it has before they clean and fix it. They visit their father's sawmill and take an exciting trip on a huge raft which had come down from Trois-Rivières in a storm. Summer is brought to a close with a thrilling climax during the return trip down the St-Lawrence. Town House, Country House will charm all who pick it up, whether young or old. For younger readers, the story is clear and wonderfully intriguing. For those of us who are not so young, it has a fine sense of rhythm and a story so enchanting as to make us almost forget, despite the rich and vivid detail of post-confederation Québec, that we are looking into history. Jean François Bélisle's line drawings, which accompany the text, are splendidly evocative of the mood and setting of Town House, Country House.» Dust jacket exposed to sun.. Illus. by Bélisle, Jean-François. Hardcover. As New/Fine., MCGill-Queen's University Press, 1990, 5, HardPress Publishing, 2013-01-28. Paperback. Good., HardPress Publishing, 2013-01-28, 2.5, New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. A first edition of this collection of letters between the noted English poet and playwright Robert Browning (1812-1889) and Julia Wedgwood (1833-1913), the brilliant English novelist, literary critic and historian. The two maintained their friendship though these letters for many years, but it waned about 1870, possibly due to society's not understanding a platonic friendship between a man and a woman. Edited and with an introduction by Richard Curle. with a frontis tissue-guarded portrait of Ms. Wedgwood, and other illustrations. Facsimiles of letters by each are tipped in. --- In tan cloth with cameos of both Browning and Wedgwood in blind to cover; titling in gilt to spine. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With prior owner's signature to front free endpaper and discreet Chicago bookseller label to rear paste-down, otherwise a clean, tightly-bound, sound copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xxiii, 199 pages ., Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1937, 3, Faber & Faber, 2011. Hardcover. As New/As New. The very best biographies recreate not just the life of their prime subjects but also that of their worlds. Fiona MacCarthy's fine new biography of Sir Edward Burne-Jones relates the story of his life in impressive detail as well as beautifully depicting the artistic and social milieu in which he moved. And what a glorious milieu it was: Pre-Raphaelitism, Symbolism, and Aestheticism all have their claims to Burne-Jones, but he can no more be defined by a single school than could any of his friends and associates throughout his rich life: Swinburne, Ruskin, Wilde, Whistler, Beardsley, Morris, to name only a few. It was a magnificent age in which to live, and in many ways Burne-Jones was the epitome of the best it had to offer in his appreciation for dreamy beauty in all its manifestations. Burne Jones was born plain Edward Jones in the industrial city of Birmingham. Never receiving much formal art training, he exhibited his great artistic ability from an early age. Falling under the spell of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the other Pre-Raphaelites, he began painting in and adding to their style, encouraged by several long trips to Italy and France. He fell in love with and eventually married a lovely girl several years his junior, Georgiana Macdonald, whose large family made him brother in law to the painter Edward Poynter and eventually uncle to Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin. Fortunately Georgie was patient and long suffering, for she had to share her husband with a number of women in semi-platonic relationships. Most of these women were part of the Souls, making them part of the larger artistic world. Burne-Jones' fame increased throughout most of his working life, though by the time of his death in 1898 he had fallen a little out of artistic fashion. In the years since he and the other Pre-Raphaelites and Aesthetes have waxed and waned in popularity, and they are now enjoying a new and much deserved renaissance. Fiona MacCarthy's biography is scholarly but engaging and lively. It is beautiflly designed and copiously illustrated, though I wish more of Burne-Jones' own works had been included. The Last Pre-Raphaelite should become one of the essential works on Burne-Jones and his associates and the glorious artistic period in which they lived., Faber & Faber, 2011, 5<
