In "A Lover's Litanies," Eric Mackay crafts a poignant exploration of love through a series of lyrical verse that captures the essence of desire, longing, and emotional turmoil. The collection is stylistically rich, employing intricate rhyme schemes and vivid imagery that evoke the romantic sensibilities of the late 19th century while resonating with contemporary experiences of the heart. Each poem serves as a meditation on the multifaceted nature of love, drawing on personal and universal...

In "The Song of the Flag: A National Ode," Eric Mackay weaves a poignant tapestry of national pride and identity through his lyrical verses. The poem explores themes of patriotism and loyalty, employing a rich and evocative literary style that marries traditional forms with a modern sensibility. Set against the backdrop of the burgeoning British nationalism of the late 19th century, Mackay'Äôs work celebrates the symbols and values that bind a nation, reminding readers of the deep emotiona...

At the commencement of the year 1885, a captivating little volume of poems was mysteriously issued from the "Leadenhalle Presse" of Messrs. Field and Tuer—a quaint, vellum-bound, antique-looking book, tied up on all sides with strings of golden silk ribbon, and illustrated throughout with fanciful wood-cuts. It was entitled "Love Letters by a Violinist," and those who were at first attracted by its title and suggestive outward appearance, untied the ribbons with a certain amount of curiosi...

In the depths of a forbidden love, a man pours out his heart in a series of passionate and evocative litanies. "A Lover's Litanies" is a raw and intimate exploration of desire, longing, and the ecstasy and agony of a love that defies societal norms. Through lyrical prose and sensual imagery, Eric Mackay captures the intoxicating allure and the bittersweet pain of a love that burns brightly but cannot be fully realized.

Betwixt and Between Liminality and Marginality: Mind the Gap offers an interdisciplinary thinking on “the marginal” within society. Using the framework of Victor Turner’s earlier notions of liminality, the book both challenges Turner’s symbolic anthropology, and celebrates its continued influence across disciplines, and under new theoretical constraints.Liminality in its simplest forms provides language for meaningful approaches to articulate transition and change. It also represent...

A detailed and inventive study of the thinking at work in modern painting, drawing on a formidable body of scholarly evidence to challenge modernist and phenomenological readings of art history, The Brain-Eye presents a series of interlinked ‘case studies’ in which philosophical thought encounters the hallucinatory sensations unleashed by ‘painter-researchers.’Rather than outlining a new ‘philosophy of art,’ The Brain-Eye details the singular problems pursued by each of its protagon...

A collection of seminal essays, many appearing in English for the first time, which provides an excellent overview of the critical theory developed by the Frankfurt School.

“The key to great interviewing is listening—concentrating solely on the answer to be sure you're aligned with your guest. The same is true for great business leaders. Art’s guide for gaining greater alignment can help any team or organization achieve top performance.”—Larry King, the world’s most recognized interviewerLeading organizations worldwide are evolving from the idea of employee engagement to that of organizational alignment. More important in tod...

In Memoriam A.H.H. is a long poem by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, completed in 1849. It is a requiem for the poet's Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage in Vienna in 1833, but it is also much more. Written over a period of 17 years, it can be seen as reflective of Victorian society at the time, and the poem discusses many of the issues that were beginning to be questioned. It is the work in which Tennyson reaches his highest musical pe...

George Washington's Rules of Civility is a short list of 110 principles or maxims by which, supposedly, proper decent people must abide. While some of these maxims may seem dated others are still quite apt for today. A quick read, George Washington's Rules of Civility is an insightful look at the manners and customs of an age gone by.

Sonnets from the Portuguese, written ca. 1845-1846 and first published in 1850, is a collection of forty-four love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The poems largely chronicle the period leading up to her 1846 marriage to Robert Browning. The collection was acclaimed and popular even in the poet's lifetime and it remains so today. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

This carefully crafted ebook: "Chamber Music (The Original Edition of 34 Poems)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Chamber Music is a collection of poems by James Joyce, published by Elkin Matthews in May, 1907. The collection originally comprised thirty-four love poems, but two further poems were added before publication ("All day I hear the noise of waters" and "I hear an army charging upon the land"). James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 Februa...