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.
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'This is a book which will give ordinary readers much pleasure, reminding them of the riches of the past, and introducing them to the surprises of the present.' The Scotsman
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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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Celebrates the joys, laments and mysteries of Scottish love,
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A carefully chosen collection that requires care in the reading. One cannot read these poems shielded; they are to be embraced, experienced and treasured.
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O my luve is like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nocht the bettir, heart licht, maun hae, little trout Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Randal, The Flowers of the Forest, Earl Richard, John Anderson, Alexander Scott, George Mackay Brown, King James, Maggie Lauder, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sydney Goodsir Smith, Alastair Reid, Edwin Muir, George Gordon, Iain Crichton Smith, James Hogg, Lord Byron, Rob the Ranter, William Soutar New!
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O my luve is like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nocht the bettir, heart licht, maun hae, little trout Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Randal, The Flowers of the Forest, Earl Richard, John Anderson, Alexander Scott, George Mackay Brown, King James, Maggie Lauder, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sydney Goodsir Smith, Alastair Reid, Edwin Muir, George Gordon, Iain Crichton Smith, James Hogg, Lord Byron, Rob the Ranter, William Soutar New!
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- Lord of the Isles, The by Sir Walter Scott in Front Matter, and page 160
- Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser on page 200, and Back Matter
- Love Poems by Rita Jean George in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- His Mistress (Harlequin Stolen Moments) by Carrie Alexander on page 237, and Back Matter
- Lord of the Isles (Warner Forever) by Amanda Scott in Front Matter, and page 160
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- Scottish Tartan Weddings: A Practical Guidebook (Weddings/Marriage) by Eric Merrill Budd in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Treasury of Classic Russian Love Short Stories: In Russian and English by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov in Back Matter
- How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry by Edward Hirsch in Back Matter
- Frommer's Scotland (Frommer's Complete Guides) by Darwin Porter on page 47
- The Warrior Queens: The Legends and the Lives of the Women Who Have Led Their Nations in War by Antonia Fraser in Front Matter
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