Phillipa Bernard - No End to Snowdrops
Here you can read online Phillipa Bernard - No End to Snowdrops full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 2012, publisher: Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd, genre: Religion. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:
Romance novel
Science fiction
Adventure
Detective
Science
History
Home and family
Prose
Art
Politics
Computer
Non-fiction
Religion
Business
Children
Humor
Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.
- Book:No End to Snowdrops
- Author:
- Publisher:Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd
- Genre:
- Year:2012
- Rating:4 / 5
- Favourites:Add to favourites
- Your mark:
No End to Snowdrops: summary, description and annotation
We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "No End to Snowdrops" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.
This authorised biography of the poet Kathleen Raine tells the story of how she developed from a small girl, who knew at the age of eight that she wanted only to write poetry, into a world-renowned poet and literary scholar. Philippa Bernard follows Kathleen Raines struggle against the constrictions of her suburban childhood to her exciting days at Girton College in the twenties, where she became friends with many brilliant writers, artists and scientists, including William Empson, Julian Trevelyan, Jakob Bronowski and the film maker Humphrey Jennings, friendships which lasted all her life. After a short marriage to Hugh Sykes Davies, she eloped with the poet Charles Madge to live in Blackheath where two children were born.
An affair led to a break with Charles, who was involved at the time with Inez Spender, wife of the poet Stephen, and at the outbreak of war in 1939, she ran away with her children to the Lake District to the home of Michael Roberts and his wife Janet Adam Smith. Taking a cottage near Ullswater, she found a peaceful seclusion which enabled her to write some of her finest poetry, but found it difficult to support her family. Leaving the children with her friend, the art patron Helen Sutherland, she moved to London. In a room off the Tottenham Court Road, she came to know Sonia Brownell (later to marry George Orwell) who introduced her to the artists and writers of the Fitzrovia set, Dylan Thomas, Cyril Connolly and Rex Whistler among them, and including the strange figure of Tambi James Tambimuttu who published her first book of poems, Stone and Flower.
Kathleen had already achieved much critical acclaim and published several volumes of poetry when she met through Tambi the naturalist and explorer Gavin Maxwell. She fell disastrously in love with him, but his homosexuality, which she understood from the beginning of their relationship, proved too much of an obstacle, for she totally failed to understand that this delightful companion, whose love of all natural things matched her own, completely failed to reciprocate the warmth of feeling that over-whelmed her. The title of his book, Ring of Bright Water, centred around his beloved otters at his home in Scotland, was taken from a poem of hers.An intensive period of research on the poet William Blake led to the publication of Blake and Tradition, marking Kathleen out as a leading Blake scholar. This was followed by works on Coleridge, Yeats and Thomas Taylor. Towards the end of her long life Kathleen Raine founded the journal Temenos with the help of Prince Charles, who became a good friend. She travelled to India, was honoured with the Queens Gold Medal for Poetry and made a Companion of Honour. Philippa Bernard met her as a neighbour in Chelsea where she and her husband owned an antiquarian book-shop. In this book she assesses sympathetically the work of Kathleen Raine, but does not hesitate to throw a critical light on this unusual woman of the highest intellect who loved her children deeply but deserted them to follow her instincts, who had an entirely practical attitude to the world about her, but who pursued a spiritual path, and who achieved so much in the world of literature and poetry.
Phillipa Bernard: author's other books
Who wrote No End to Snowdrops? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.
No End to Snowdrops — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work
Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "No End to Snowdrops" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.
Font size:
Interval:
Bookmark:
Arthur Farndell 2010
All rights reserved.copy No part of this book may be
reproduced in any form without the written permission
of the publisher, Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd
First published in 2010 by
Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd
107 Parkway House, Sheen Lane,
London SW14 8LS
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record of this book
is available from the British Library
ISBN: 978-0-85683-258-1
Typeset by Alacrity,
Sandford, Somerset
Printed and bound through
s|s|media limited, Wallington, Surrey
All Things Natural
All Things Natural
FICINO ON PLATOS
TIMAEUS
ARTHUR FARNDELL
Notes and Additional Material by
PETER BLUMSOM
SHEPHEARD-WALWYN (PUBLISHERS) LTD
Commentaries by Ficino on Platos Writings
a four-volume series
Gardens of Philosophy
Evermore Shall Be So
When Philosophers Rule
All Things Natural
SINCE THE TIME work on this series began, there have been wars and rumours of wars, accompanied by vast changes on the national and international stage.
In the midst of reflections on changes of any kind, it is good to acknowledge what is constant. As far as this series is concerned, the constants, in terms of human contributors other than myself as the translator, are my wife Phyllis, John Meltzer, Nathan David, Anthony Werner, and Jean Desebrock.
Work on this particular volume has been enormously helped by a group of composers and musicians who graced our home three times a year for almost a decade to consider Chapters 28 to 35 of Ficinos Compendium. Leading regulars in this group were Peter Blumsom (who kindly wrote the notes and additional material to this volume), Bruce Ramell, and David Goymour, and valued contributions were also made by David Fletcher, the late Geoffrey Mulford, Noel Skinner, and David Ward.
For the supply of source material I am deeply indebted to Adrian Bertoluzzi and Christophe Poncet.
The constant of constants is the source of all, the Truth itself, acknowledged as supreme by Plato and Ficino. To this Truth, which shines in the hearts of all, this final volume and the whole series are dedicated.
THE FLORENCE text of 1496 is the principal authority for the translation of the Compendium , but use has also been made of the Venice edition of 1491 and the Basle version of 1576.
Minor differences, too numerous to list in this volume, appear in these three versions: for instance, the last word of Chapter 8 of the Compendium is given as confirmavimus in Florence and Venice, but as confirmabimus in Basle.
The major variations in these three publications, however, are given below, with references from the English of this present translation:
Compendium , Chapter 7: Six consecutive paragraphs almost at the end of the chapter (When we say if we follow Plato according to the poets.) occur in Florence only.
Compendium , Chapter 11: The final paragraph (He says that would come forth from it.) is in Florence and Basle but not in Venice.
Compendium , Chapter 19: In the sixth paragraph, the words beginning since in this way twelve borrows two sides and ending from the further cube, namely, eight are in Florence but not in Venice or Basle.
Compendium , Chapter 23: Basle gives a table of the elements and their qualities which does not appear in Florence or Venice.
Compendium , Chapter 26: This chapter is not in Venice. In Basle it is numbered XXVII.
Compendium , Chapter 27: In Basle this is numbered XXVI. Thus Basle reverses Chapters 26 and 27 of Florence. In the second paragraph, the second sentence and the single word moreover of the third sentence appear only in Florence. Likewise, the penultimate paragraph of this chapter appears only in Florence.
Compendium , Chapter 29: The final paragraph occurs in Florence and Basle, but not in Venice.
Compendium , Chapter 32: Paragraph 23 (But when we said that Saturn ) and paragraph 24 (We should, however, assign ) appear only in Florence.
Compendium , Chapter 33: Paragraph 3: The words beginning with Stillness, and Motion, which conclude the first sentence, and ending with the Same, and the Different in the third sentence, occur in Florence and Venice, but not in Basle.
Compendium , Chapter 34: The penultimate paragraph is given in Florence, but not in Venice or Basle.
Compendium , Chapter 34*: The second paragraph occurs in Florence only. Note also that the English translation follows the Florence text in attributing the number 34 to two consecutive chapters, this being the second of those two chapters. The result is that, from here until the end of the Compendium , the chapter numbers will lag one behind those of Venice and Basle.
Compendium , Chapter 35: Both Venice and Basle include a triangular figure with numbers. In Basle the topmost number shown is 6, whereas Venice shows the numeral 1 above the 6. This figure does not appear in Florence.
Compendium , Chapter 36: Venice has only the first six paragraphs of this chapter.
Compendium , Chapter 37: Venice lacks this chapter.
Compendium , Chapter 38: Venice lacks this chapter. It is erroneously numbered XXXVII in the Basle text.
Compendium , Chapter 39: This chapter is not in Venice.
Compendium , Chapter 40: In the title, only Florence has the words of God in relation to the gods; and the providence of the gods. Venice has only the first six paragraphs of this chapter.
Compendium , Chapter 41: Paragraph 6: Only Florence has We have also spoken about sight in our commentaries on Plotinus.
Compendium , Chapter 42: Basle erroneously gives the number XL to this chapter.
Compendium , Chapter 43: Basle assigns the number XLI to this chapter. The eighth paragraph (Euclid demonstrates ) occurs only in Florence. In the tenth paragraph, the words and so twice sixty TRANSLATORS NOTE ON THE LATIN TEXTS scalenes are produced. In this shape there are twelve solid angles, each produced from five planes and the words having eight solid angles, each of which is made of three right-angled planes likewise occur only in the Florence text.
Compendium , Chapter 44: Basle gives the number XLII to this chapter.
Compendium , Chapter 45: This chapter appears only in Florence.
Compendium , Chapter 46: Venice and Basle have this as the final part of the chapter entitled More on man: how much regard he gives to the soul, and how much to the body [Chapter 44 in Florence]. The chapter title is therefore only in Florence. In the third paragraph, the words that no one who has clearly perceived, at the outset, the misery which depravity brings in its train will voluntarily direct all his desires towards this end. You should also understand him to mean occur only in Florence. In the penultimate paragraph, between just as the poets do and So take these, Venice and Basle have Atque Timaeus Locrus in Lib. de Mundo fabulosa haec esse fatetur [And Timaeus of Locri, in his book On the World , says that these things are fictitious (or mythical)].
For the translation of The Chapter Divisions of the Timaeus , the Florence text has remained the principal guide, but the Basle of 1576 has also been consulted. In this part of the work there are numerous minor discrepancies between the two texts, but no major divergences.
Font size:
Interval:
Bookmark:
Similar books «No End to Snowdrops»
Look at similar books to No End to Snowdrops. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.
Discussion, reviews of the book No End to Snowdrops and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.