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The Banquet explores the fragile, intricate links between language and longing how words can reconstruct great cities out of memories and dreams, tear them apart, or carry them from one place to another, as if each city, house and chamber were made of sonic and visual images rather than walls and bricks. Moving between the worlds of philosophy, theatre and poetry from Dantes Florence to Wittgensteins Cambridge; from Tom Stoppards theatre stage to the harsh landscapes of Rimbauds poetryThe Banquet explores the ever-growing tensions between words and action, knowledge and ethics.

Enchanting Stephen FryDid you know:- Lord Byron sold more books in a day than Jane Austen did in her lifetime- During the First World War there were more women poets published than soldier poets- A kitchen-maid became one of the most popular poets of the 18th centurySome people worry that they dont appreciate poetry; but English poetry wasnt written to be appreciated, it was written to be enjoyed. For six centuries people have been reading poetry for enjoyment - for fun, romance, religion and entertainment - and this is a book about those people.Rhyme ### Reason takes you from a medieval accountant (called Chaucer) trying to entertain his lord, past a doomed love affair in the Tower of London, through adoring sonnets and notebooks filled with dirty poems, and into the heart of Byromania and the Victorian hearth, to help you understand why poetry has had such an enduring hold on the British psyche.From the poems of housemaids to the rhymes of kings, its the history of Britain through the poems that people read, recited and loved.

Entre deuses poderosos, heróis lendários e criaturas místicas, nasce um universo que moldou a cultura, a arte e a literatura do Ocidente.Mitos & Lendas Greco-Romana é um guia essencial para quem