A Red Rose or a Satin Heart by Lady Antonia Fraser
From First love to Farewells, this book contains the full gamut of emotions inspired by poetry's most popular subject: love. Meet the romantics and the unromantics, the obsessed and the fainthearted,the tragic and the comic, in all their lyrical glory. Antonia Fraser has made a touching, canny and diverse selection of poems from the fifteenth century to the present day, from ballads to sonnets to modern verse. Included alongside well-known masters like Burns, Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson, are contemporary poets such as Kathleen Jamie, John Burnside and Carol Ann Duffy, illuminating the ways of the heart in all its forms.
This is a book which will give much pleasure, reminding them of the riches of the past, and introducing them to the surprises of the present* * Scotsman * *
Far from the dourness and taciturnity of legend, the Scot appears here as a lover only slightly less impressive than the Italian. * * The Times * *
Certainly hits the spot with its delightful range of old and new poems . . . And don't the Scots do love well, in all its guises - the wooing, the wanting and the waiting, as well as lust, longing and lament. * * TLS * *
Far from the dourness and taciturnity of legend, the Scot appears here as a lover only slightly less impressive than the Italian. * * The Times * *
Certainly hits the spot with its delightful range of old and new poems . . . And don't the Scots do love well, in all its guises - the wooing, the wanting and the waiting, as well as lust, longing and lament. * * TLS * *
Lady Antonia Fraser (Pinter)'s most recent biography is the internationally bestselling Marie Antoinette: The Journey (2006), which was made into a film directed by Sofia Coppola; she has also written Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King, Mary, Queen of Scots, Cromwell: Our Chief of Men and Charles II, as well as a short study, King James VI & I, in the Kings and Queen of England series she edits. She has written three studies of women in history, The Weaker Vessel, The Warrior Queens and The Six Wives of Henry VIII. Lady Antonia Fraser has received the Wolfson History Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and the 2000 Medallion of the Historical Association.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781841953342 |
| ISBN 10 | 1841953342 |
| Title | A Red Rose or a Satin Heart |
| Author | Lady Antonia Fraser |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Year published | 2002-11-22 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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