Lifelines: Letters from Famous People about Their Favourite PoemNiall MacMonagle Between 1985 and 1992, fifth formers at Wesley College, Dublin, wrote to a variety of famous people, asking them to name their favourite poem and give the reasons why it meant so much to them. In 1992, a collection of these letters and poems was published by TownHouse. The anthology was a huge success and has been reprinted many times since. In their letters to the teenagers, 223 famous people give honest, immediate, humorous, profound and revealing insights into themselves as they describe the reasons for their choice. Contributors include Garret FitzGerald, Maeve Binchy, Richard Branson, Mother Teresa, Jeffrey Archer, Jeremy Irons, Conor Cruise O'Brien and Cyril Cusack, making this a truly remarkable and unique anthology. |
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... lines to a pulverized nowhere ; and this memory has itself been prompted by an earlier , random image of ' the quiet thing ' , the heavy - leaved , timbered hedge - rows around the parsonage at Bemerton , outside Salisbury , where the ...
... lines to a pulverized nowhere ; and this memory has itself been prompted by an earlier , random image of ' the quiet thing ' , the heavy - leaved , timbered hedge - rows around the parsonage at Bemerton , outside Salisbury , where the ...
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... lines : How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit , and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears : soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony . Sit , Jessica . Look how the floor of heaven ...
... lines : How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit , and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears : soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony . Sit , Jessica . Look how the floor of heaven ...
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... lines from Blake's ' Introduction ' to The Songs of Experience expressed my belief that poetry could awaken our prelapsarian soul . That belief is now inevitably weakened , though these lines will always make me remember what that ...
... lines from Blake's ' Introduction ' to The Songs of Experience expressed my belief that poetry could awaken our prelapsarian soul . That belief is now inevitably weakened , though these lines will always make me remember what that ...
Contents
Garrett FitzGerald | 50 |
Julie OCallaghan | 56 |
Eileen Dunne | 63 |
Copyright | |
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Lifelines 2: Letters from Famous People about Their Favourite Poem Niall MacMonagle No preview available - 1994 |
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