'"The Mersey Sound" is an attempt to introduce contemporary poetry to the general reader by publishing representative work by each of three modern poets in a single volume, in each case the selection has been made to illustrate the poet's characteristics in style and form'. With this modest brief, "[...]
In free-spirited Paris, Jules and Jim live a carefree, bohemian existence. They write in cafes, travel when the mood takes them, and share the women they love without jealousy. Women like Lucie, flawless, an abbess, and Odile, impulsive, mischievous, almost feral. But it is Kate - with a smile the t[...]
"The Lost Estate" is Robin Buss' translation of Henri Alain-Fournier's poignant study of lost love, Le Grand Meaulnes. This "Penguin Classics" edition also contains an introduction by Adam Gopnik. When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, d[...]
This book looks at English dictionaries in Great Britain and the USA from 1600 to today. It is both a definitive history of the lexicography of English and a complete introduction to the making of dictionaries. Wide-ranging, wittily written, and authoritative it will appeal to everyone interested in[...]
Henri Michaux is widely recognized as a major twentieth-century French poet and painter. Although his fascination with universal languages has attracted the attention of several of his critics, it has up until now been treated as a marginal concern. Henri Michaux: Poetry, Painting, and the Universal[...]
This study is the story of writing from its very beginnings to its recent transformations through technology. Traversing four millennia, Martin offers a chronicle of writing as a cultural system, a means of communication and a history of technologies. He shows how the written word originated, how it[...]
Reflections on ministry and Christian leadership by one of our greatest modern spiritual writers.
Nouwen shares his personal creed by telling the story of Adam, a profoundly disabled man who was the first person Nouwen cared for when he joined the l'Arche Daybreak community in Toronto.[...]
Prior to writing his great classic, The Return of the Prodigal Son, Henri Nouwen suffered an enormous personal loss and breakdown that took him away from his home in the L'Arche Daybreak community for a period of seven months. His thoughts were intense, raw and deeply private, and ultimately reveale[...]
Henri Matisse by Alastair Sooke - an essential guide to one of the 20th century's greatest artists. 'One January morning in 1941, only a fortnight or so after his seventy-first birthday, the bearded and bespectacled French artist Henri Matisse was lying in a hospital bed preparing to die.' Diagnosed[...]
Henri Nouwen, beloved author, priest and spiritual guide, counseled many people during his lifetime, but his principles of spiritual formation were never written down. Now, Michael Christensen, one of Nouwen's longtime students, and Rebecca Laird have taken his famous course in spiritual formation a[...]
Presents a translation which deals with the nature of the Church and the liturgy, which is seminally influenced by the Liturgical Movement. This book opens an initial exploration of the Church as made by the Eucharist and gives expression to that mystery in which the Church is believed to consist.[...]
The late Henri Nouwen is one of this century's greatest spiritual writers and in one volume are included two of his most inspirational pastoral works. The Life of the Beloved asks how one can live a spiritual life in a completely secular culture. Our Greatest Gift is a meditation on dying and cari[...]
"To write what is human, not escapist," is Henri Cole's endeavor. In "The Visible Man "he pursues his aim by folding autobiography and memory into the thirty severe and fiercely truthful lyrics--poems presenting a constant tension between classical repose and the friction of life--that make up this [...]
Plays by the Nobel-laureate, brought together for the first timeIn the history plays that comprise "The Haitian Trilogy"--"Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours" and "The Haytian Earth"--Derek Walcott, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, uses verse to tell the story of his native West Indies a[...]
"Time was plunging forward,
"like dolphins scissoring open water or like me,
"following Jenny's flippers down to see the coral reef,
"where the color of sand, sea and sky merged,
"and it was as if that was all God wanted:
"not a wife, a house or a position,
"but a self, like [...]
A wild, masterful Pulitzer Prize-winning cycle of poems that half a century later still shocks and astounds
John Berryman was hardly unknown when he published "77 Dream Songs," but the volume was, nevertheless, a shock and a revelation. A "spooky" collection in the words of Robert Lowell--"a mad[...]