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A Red Rose or a Satin Heart: An Anthology of Scottish Love Poems

A Red Rose or a Satin Heart: An Anthology of Scottish Love Poems

by Antonia Fraser (Author)

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    Paperback 2010

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Synopsis

Meet the romantics and the unromantics, the passionate and the fainthearted, the tragic and the comic, in all their lyrical glory. This anthology explores the full range of emotions inspired by poetry's most popular subject: love. Antonia Fraser has made a touching, inspired and wonderfully diverse selection. Poems range from the fifteenth century to the present, from ballads to sonnets to modern verse. Included alongside well-known classics by Burns, Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson, are contemporary poems by Kathleen Jamie, John Burnside and Carol Ann Duffy, illuminating the ways of the heart in all its forms.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 04 Feb 2010
ISBN 10: 1847678580
ISBN 13: 9781847678584
Book Overview: The essential collection of Scottish Love Poems

Media Reviews
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. * * 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 hit 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. * * Times Educational Supplement * *
Author Bio
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.