Stanley Plumly
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 251 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Following his 'obsessive, intricate, intimate, and brilliant' (Washington Post) work in Posthumous Keats and The Immortal Evening, renowned poet Stanley Plumly further explores immortality in art through the work of two impressive landscape artists: John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. How is it that this disparate pair will come to be regarded as Britain's supreme landscape painters, precursors to Impressionism and Modernism? How did each painter's...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages ; illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Offers an approach to the lives and works of Keats, Wordsworth, Lamb, and the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon through the exemplary events of a single evening spent in thoughtful discussion and, later, raucous conversation.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
96 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In his new collection, Stanley Plumly confronts and celebrates mortality -- in the detailed natural world, in the immediacy of the loss of friends, and in personal encounters. Archetypal, sometimes even allegorical, the poems in Old Heart amount to a sustained meditation.
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A unique anthology of poems--from around the world and through the ages--that celebrate trees. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET. For thousands of years humans have variously worshipped trees, made use of them, admired them, and destroyed them--and poets have long chronicled the relationship. Poets from Homer and Virgil to Wordsworth, Whitman, and Thoreau, from Bashō and Tu Fu to Czesław Miłosz and Seamus Heaney have celebrated sacred groves,...
