Readings Prosaic and Poetic

Robin Bloor

ISBN 10: 1087994632 / ISBN 13: 9781087994635

Published by The Bloor Group, 2021

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Food For The Heart And MindCollected over many years, this thoughtfully curated treasury of readings reaches out across multiple cultures and traditions. Open it on almost any page and you will find something to inspire you. It is awash with masterpieces of the writer's craft. This literary gem is artfully organized under twelve headings which is itself a poem of a kind, and reads as follows: At First, An Arousing Secondly, A Gathering Third, An Exploration The Fourth Is A Procession The Fifth, A Pondering The Sixth, A Sallying Forth The Seventh Is A Peregrination The Eighth Entails A Mission The Ninth Becomes A Quest Then Proceeds A Pilgrimage Penultimately, A Returning And Finally, A Recurrence Each of these lines refers to a chapter containing nine separate works of poetry or prose, each occupying just a few pages. So it comprises 108 readings, harvested from the works of literary giants. A few you will undoubtedly be familiar with, but some will be entirely new to the reader. The book includes three previously unpublished poems by Rina Hands, as well as a few other previously unpublished works. It includes poetry or prose from: Lao Tzu, The Dalai Lama,G Gurdjieff, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jalal ad-D¿n Rumi, Arthur Schopenhauer, Walt Whitman, St Francis, Avicenna, Alexander Pushkin, Honoré de Balzac, John Milton, Marcus Aurelius, St Paul, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William Blake, Khalil Gibran, Arthur Rimbaud, John Bunyan, Red Hawk, Immanual Joseph, John Keats, René Daumal, Li Po, William Shakespeare, The Bible, Federico Garcia Lorca, Edgar Allan Poe, Tacitus, Lewis Carroll, Soren Kirkegaard, Farid ud-Din Attar, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alfred Lord Tennyson,Chuang Tzu, Omar Khayyam, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ivan Turgenev, W B Yeats, Charles Causley, Emily Dickinson and many others. It is a book you will dip into again and again, a book for the coffee table, not the bookshelf.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Readings Prosaic and Poetic
• Publisher: The Bloor Group
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1087994632
• ISBN 13: 9781087994635
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 222W x 145H x 19D millimeters 222 millimeters width by 145 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 508 grams

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Synopsis

Food For The Heart And Mind

Collected over many years, this thoughtfully curated treasury of readings reaches out across multiple cultures and traditions. Open it on almost any page and you will find something to inspire you. It is awash with masterpieces of the writer's craft.

This literary gem is artfully organized under twelve headings which is itself a poem of a kind, and reads as follows:

At First, An Arousing

Secondly, A Gathering

Third, An Exploration

The Fourth Is A Procession

The Fifth, A Pondering

The Sixth, A Sallying Forth

The Seventh Is A Peregrination

The Eighth Entails A Mission

The Ninth Becomes A Quest

Then Proceeds A Pilgrimage

Penultimately, A Returning

And Finally, A Recurrence

Each of these lines refers to a chapter containing nine separate works of poetry or prose, each occupying just a few pages.

So it comprises 108 readings, harvested from the works of literary giants. A few you will undoubtedly be familiar with, but some will be entirely new to the reader. The book includes three previously unpublished poems by Rina Hands, as well as a few other previously unpublished works. It includes poetry or prose from:

Lao Tzu, The Dalai Lama, G Gurdjieff, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jalal ad-Dīn Rumi, Arthur Schopenhauer, Walt Whitman, St Francis, Avicenna, Alexander Pushkin, Honoré de Balzac, John Milton, Marcus Aurelius, St Paul, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William Blake, Khalil Gibran, Arthur Rimbaud, John Bunyan, Red Hawk, Immanual Joseph, John Keats, René Daumal, Li Po, William Shakespeare, The Bible, Federico Garcia Lorca, Edgar Allan Poe, Tacitus, Lewis Carroll, Soren Kirkegaard, Farid ud-Din Attar, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Chuang Tzu, Omar Khayyam, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ivan Turgenev, W B Yeats, Charles Causley, Emily Dickinson and many others.

It is a book you will dip into again and again, a book for the coffee table, not the bookshelf.