The daughter: A novel based on the life of Eleanor Marx

Chernaik, Judith

Harper&Row

The now familiar poem posters first appeared in London's tube and underground trains in 1986. The idea was simple enough: why not convert the empty advertising space above the passenger's heads into a simple celebration of the poetry that has underscored English literature for a thousand years or more? The poems soon caught the public's imagination. Here on the trains there was at last something different, words to soothe, inspire, move, charm, surprise, arouse, even occasionally to shock, but never to sell. The program grew, and attracted international attention, so that now there are similar programs of public poetry on transport systems around the world, from New York to Shanghai, including Dublin, Paris, Athens, Stuttgart, St. Petersburg, Moscow, San Francisco, and Barcelona. This latest anthology brings together the best of all of them in a single volume. You can turn the pages and find limericks, great works of romantic poetry, ancient Gallic texts, Spike Milligan nesting alongside Dylan Thomas. As a journey of literary discovery, old favorites alongside the new, this much travelled collection of exceptional poetry has no equal. Forget the literary canon—here is the canon of human life.

Best Poems on the Underground

Literature & Fiction

Benson, Gerard

Poetry

Orion Publishing

Poems on the Underground continue to delight London's travellers. Every four months, another five poems appear in the tube carriages, chosen by the novelist Judith Chernaik and the poets Cicely Herbert and Gerard Benson. This book includes all the poems and illustrations for "100 Poems on the Underground". It is also illustrated in colour with 24 posters from the golden age of London Underground art. The posters have been selected from the London Transport Museum archives to complement the spirit of the book. In addition to their graphic imagery, they feature lines of poetry of special interest, proving that poetry had a role to play in Underground travel as many as 80 years ago. There is an extended introduction, notes on the new poems and on the posters and an index of first lines. Bound and jacketed with head and tail bands, it also has a ribbon marker.

Poems on the Underground

UNKNO

1st Cassell 1993 trade edition paperback, fine In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Herbert, Cicely

Orion Publishing Co

This edition contains all the poems that have appeared on the tubes since the programme began, and includes an extra 15 poems.

A selection of the poems displayed in 1995 on London Underground tube trains. The collection includes work by poets such as James Fenton, Dannie Abse, Dylan Thomas, Spike Milligan, W.H. Auden, John Betjeman, May Sarton, Robert Frost and Roger McGough.

Poems on the Underground 95

Love Poems on the Underground

Drawn to Percy Bysshe Shelley's creed of love, freedom, and justice, three women--Mary and Fanny Godwin and their step-sister Claire--surrounded by a circle of writers and radical thinkers, enjoy a revolutionary way of living that includes free love and vegetarianism.

Love's Children

United States

Alfred.A. Knopf

Drawing on previously unpublished sources, this groundbreaking biography of Robert Schumann sheds new light on the great composer’s life and work. With the rigorous research of a scholar and the eloquent prose of a novelist, Judith Chernaik takes us into Schumann’s nineteenth-century Romantic milieu, where he wore many “masks” that gave voice to each corner of his soul. The son of a book publisher, he infused his pieces with literary ideas. He was passionately original but worshipped the past: Bach and Beethoven, Shakespeare and Byron. He believed in artistic freedom but struggled with constraints of form. His courtship and marriage to the brilliant pianist Clara Wieck—against her father’s wishes—is one of the great musical love stories of all time. Chernaik freshly explores his troubled relations with fellow composers Mendelssohn and Chopin, and the full medical diary—long withheld—from the Endenich asylum where he spent his final years enables her to look anew at the mystery of his early death. By turns tragic and transcendent, Schumann shows how this extraordinary artist turned his tumultuous life into music that speaks directly—and timelessly—to the heart.

Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

Humor & Entertainment

KNOPF

Random House Value Publishing

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The daughter: A novel based on the life of Eleanor Marx

Best Poems on the Underground

Poems on the Underground

Poems on the Underground

Poems on the Underground

Poems on the Underground 95

Love Poems on the Underground

Love's Children

Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

Love's Children