Poetry Books by Bernard De Ventadorn
Publisher: McFarland
Published Date: 2006-01-31
Categories: Social Science
The last words of the dying often provide insight into their feelings about life. Some are peaceful ("It is very beautiful over there"--Thomas Alva Edison); many are spiritual ("Don't ask the Lord to keep me here. Ask him to have mercy"--Walker Percy); others are angry ("God-damn the whole frigging world and everybody in it--except you Carlotta"--W.C. Fields); still others reflect the weary fight against death ("I'm bored of it all"--Sir Winston Churchill). Nearly 2,000 deathbed quotations from saints, popes, statesmen, scientists, soldiers, musicians, athletes, artists, entertainers, writers, criminals and others are included in this reference work. Each entry includes a brief biographical sketch of the person and sets the quotation in context. The sources for the quotes include biographies, newspaper and magazine accounts, and, in a few instances, firsthand accounts.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published Date: 2010-10-28
Categories: Music
A selection of Berlioz's letters to family, friends and fellow musicians giving a first-hand insight into his life.
Publisher: Random House UK
Published Date: 1999-01-01
Categories: Poetry
Bernard O'Donoghue's third collection of poetry is a book about the middle ground: being in between two places, being neither here nor there. Once more mining the memories of his rural upbringing in County Cork, O'Donoghue weaves through the collection a series of tender elegies for the characters and places of his youth. The poems are touched with a quiet mourning, not only for a passing age, but for a homeland to which the author no longer truly belongs. In the words of John Burnside, O'Donoghue wrights with 'scrupulous honesty' challenging 'our pretended knowledge of the world'. His position of not quite belonging gives him an outsider's scepticism and this verse, which captures in its metre the careful movement of thought and the rhythms of storytelling, chips away at certainties and reaches towards a tentative understanding.
Publisher: Chapel Hill, U. of North Carolina P
Published Date: 1964
Categories: Literary Criticism
This study treats the evolution of that branch of serious French drama whose themes were taken from the national history. The study also concerns dramatic groups, the staging of plays, and audiences.
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Published Date: 2003
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Opening a bright window into the turbulent world of a renowned saint who lived during a time of great unrest, Bernard Pujo details how politics, war and Vincent's own charismatic personality served as essential elements in his construction of a vast and lasting web of charitable works.
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Published Date: 2008
Categories: English poetry
A selection drawn from over twenty years of the poet's work.
