A story of two poets, one an elderly Belgian woman, the other a young Englishman, who, when he finds his life and art broken up by his love for an older, married woman, turns for help to the poems of Jean, the Belgian woman, and finds his salvation in the poet herself.
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May Sarton is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (May 3, 1912 - July 16, 1995), an American poet, novelist, and memoirist. Her parents were science historian George Sarton and his wife, the English artist Mabel Eleanor Elwes. In 1915, her family moved to Boston, Massachusetts. She went to school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and started theatre lessons in her late teens. In 1945 she met her partner for the next thirteen years, Judy Matlack, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. They separated in 1956, when Sarton's father died and Sarton moved to Nelson, New Hampshire. Honey in the Hive (1988) is about their relationship. Sarton later moved to York, Maine. She died of breast cancer on July 16, 1995. She is buried in Nelson, New Hampshire.
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antiquated, but has it's charm,
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I am such a fan of May Sarton, warts and all. ;-)
I have mainly read her journals, but wanted to read a couple of her novels. I first read As We Are Now, and thought it outstanding. Then I read Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, and pretty much enjoyed it....a bit "talky" but okay. I know the story behind it, and it does serve a purpose. Thirdly, I just finished The Single Hound, and was a bit surprised, even tho' I knew it way May's first novel. For such a short novel, it was slightly tedious in parts, and compared to writing today, of course it was very antiquated. But all in all, after finishing it, I do have to say I enjoyed it, if for nothing else, a taste of a novel written back before my mother was born. A glimpse of what people were reading almost 100 years ago. And compared to The Millineum Series that I just finished, wow ~ we've sure come a long way. I do intend to read a couple of May's other books, as each one helps me understand her a little more. Oh, and I do have to mention, I paid a couple of dollars for the book, and it's autographed by May on the cover page. I suppose I can't prove it's her actual autograph, but I can compare it to signatures of hers I've seen other places, and it sure looks like hers. Plus, it's written in an odd color of ink and you can tell it's written with a fountain pen, the way it bled through the page in several places. So I choose to think it's her signature, and I think it's cool, and I got a good deal again on Amazon.
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EARLY in the morning between winter and spring, when the grass is frosty, when there is no scent and no sound but a heavy white stillness, and yet you know the blackbird may speak at any moment, a sharp sweet waterfall of sound fall down, and the earth wake - on such a morning the milkman whistles 'Aupres de ma blonde' as he drives down the little alley behind the houses on the Boulevard Leopold. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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EARLY in the morning between winter and spring, when the grass is frosty, when there is no scent and no sound but a heavy white stillness, and yet you know the blackbird may speak at any moment, a sharp sweet waterfall of sound fall down, and the earth wake - on such a morning the milkman whistles 'Aupres de ma blonde' as he drives down the little alley behind the houses on the Boulevard Leopold. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
little owls Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jean Latour, Georgia Manning, Mark Taylor, Mademoiselle Latour, Saint Francis, Van Eyck New!
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Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Joanna and Ulysses by May Sarton in Front Matter
- The Small Room (Norton Library) by May Sarton in Front Matter
- Recovering: A Journal by May Sarton in Front Matter
- Collected poems (1930-1973) by May Sarton in Front Matter
- Mrs. Stevens Hears The Mermaids Singing by Sarton May in Front Matter
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- Conversations with May Sarton (Literary Conversations) by Earl G. Ingersoll on 9 pages
- May Sarton: Selected Letters, 1915-1954 by May Sarton on 8 pages
- Understanding May Sarton by Mark K. Fulk on 8 pages
- Dear Juliette: Letters of May Sarton to Juliette Huxley by SUSAN SHERMAN on 7 pages
- Aging and Gender in Literature: Studies in Creativity (Feminist Issues) by Anne M. Wyatt-Brown on page 56, page 59, and Back Matter
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