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10 best books like Dali (Dawn Ades): Spring Essence: The Poetry of Hô Xuân Huong, The Arthurian Legends, The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader, Genesis: A Living Conversation (PBS Series), The Gospel According to Jesus, Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time, Creating Poetry, The Redress of Poetry, Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Postmodernity, Henry James: A Life

Spring Essence: The Poetry of Hô Xuân Huong
AuthorHồ Xuân Hương
ISBN1556591489
Hồ Xuân Hương — whose name translates as "Spring Essence" — is one of the most important and popular poets in Vietnam. A concubine, she became renowned for her poetic skills, writing subtly risqué poems which used double entendre and sexual innuendo as a vehicle for social, religious, and...
The Arthurian Legends
AuthorRichard Barber
ISBN0851151108
This book I got many years ago from Quarwood of all places. It's one of the books I own from John Entwistle's personal library, and it is an exceptionally beautiful book. It is worth five stars for the pictures alone, but the accompanying text makes it all even better.

The book is a broad survey...
The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader
AuthorGeorge Gibian
ISBN0140151036
The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader magnificently represents the great voices of this era. It includes such masterworks of world literature as Pushkin's poem "The Bronze Horseman"; Gogol's "The Overcoat"; Turgenev's novel First Love; Chekhov's Uncle Vanya; Tolstoy's The Death of...
Genesis: A Living Conversation (PBS Series)
AuthorBill Moyers
ISBN0385490437
People need stories to make sense of the world--to hold their lives together, and to fasten on to those values that last. The greatest stories are found in the Bible, enduring through the centuries. In "Genesis, " acclaimed television journalist Bill Moyers brings together some of the world's liveliest...
The Gospel According to Jesus
AuthorStephen Mitchell
I feel a kind of wistful envy toward people who have a clear image of Jesus. The images differ--wiry prophet of social justice; Son of God Incarnate, feet barely touching the dust he walked on; witty wandering sage; Buddha of the Mediterranean.

Mitchell has done his homework, reviewing what...
Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time
AuthorEavan Boland
ISBN0393314375
[O]ver a relatively short time--certainly no more than a generation or two--women have moved from being the subjects and objects of Irish poems to being the authors of them. It is a momentous transit. It is also a disruptive one. . . . What is more, such a transit . . . is almost invisible to the naked eye....
Creating Poetry
AuthorJohn Drury
ISBN1582974632
Poets can't impose their will on the muse. That's why it's so important that you write regularly, keep reworking your drafts, and experiment in your writing. This book will help you by offering advice, inspiration, and hundreds of exercises to get you going--all designed to invoke your muse.

With...
The Redress of Poetry
AuthorSeamus Heaney
ISBN0374248532
This might seem an odd choice: a collection of lectures about poetry, some of them to an Oxford audience. Sounds stuffy as can be - but it isn't. Wherever they were first heard, each lecture was written to be understood by anyone, and send them back to the works they cover.

The best piece, and perhaps...
Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Postmodernity
AuthorJohn Lechte
ISBN0415074088

الكتاب يُعد مرجعا لا غنى عنه، جوانبه الإيجابية كثيرة جدا . . غير أنه يتطلب دراية مسبقة بموضوعاته بغيرها يصبح الكتاب مبهم لا فائدة منه . . الترجمة جيدة جدا...
Henry James: A Life
AuthorLeon Edel
ISBN0006548687
This is the one-volume edition of a famous biography of Henry James, which includes new material. Born in America, Henry James was educated both there and in Europe before settling in London, where he was to spend most of his life, in 1876. His novels represent the culmination of the 19th-century realist...
Harvest Poems: 1910-1960
AuthorCarl Sandburg
ISBN0156391252
Can four dollars buy you happiness?

Yes. Yes, it can.

Four dollars bought me this book, and this book brought me happiness. So, $4.00=Happiness.

And, in case you think I'm a cheap date, I've a list of references that will tell you otherwise.

But, I can't speak of dating...
Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku
AuthorWilliam J. Higginson
ISBN4770014309
"The Haiku Handbook" is the first book to give the reader everything needed to begin writing or teaching haiku. It presents haiku poets writing in English, Spanish, French, German, and five other languages on an equal footing with Japanese poets. Not only are the four great Japanese masters of the haiku...
The Acts of the Apostles
AuthorWilliam Barclay
ISBN0664241069
A lot of Barclays material, in my experience, has stood the test of time, reading well after forty or so years since it was written. While written in a simple style, he takes modern biblical scholarship to a general audience. But in this case, I felt it was overly simplistic, perhaps for one of two reasons:...
Salvador Dalí: 1904-1989
AuthorGilles Néret
ISBN0760701105
Salvador Dalí was born Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domenech on May 11, 1904, in Figueres, Spain, located 16 miles from the French border in the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains. His father, Salvador Dalí y Cusi, was a middle class lawyer and notary. Salvador's father had a strict disciplinary...
Dali by Dali
AuthorSalvador Dalí
ISBN0810900718
The combination of books linked to this page is such a mess (this is also true of Amazon’s page). There are books combined here that AREN'T different editions of the same book; they’re different books entirely. This review is for the large, coffee table book that was published by Abrams in 1968 (presumed...
The Helga Pictures
AuthorAndrew Wyeth
ISBN0810917882
The Helga pictures galvanized public attention in 1986, when articles appeared in the press about a large cache of work previously unknown not only to the art world but even to the Wyeth's wife. At first, attention was given to his private project-depicting the same subject in secrecy from 1971 to '85....
Hieronymus Bosch
AuthorLarry Silver
ISBN0789209012
Four hundred little people frolic au naturel with overgrown songbirds and raspberries; a pudgy blue demon serenades a fashionable young couple with a tune piped through his own elongated nose; a knife-wielding set of disembodied ears stalks the damned through hell. The phantasmagoric imagery of...
The Bourne Supremacy. Part 1 of 2 (Jason Bourne, #2.1)
AuthorRobert Ludlum
ISBN0736608672
Just finished reading this for the umpteenth time. Every few years, I pick it up for sentimental value. It was one of the books I read in high school that clearly remember thinking--I wish I was this writer--and maybe one day. Of course, a million years later my agent told me to give up the dream on this genre..
This...
The Oxford English Dictionary: 20 Volume Set and CD-ROM [With CDROM]
AuthorJohn Andrew Simpson
ISBN0195219422
The 20-Volume OED and the new Version 3.0 CD-ROM makes exploring the resources of the most authoritative dictionary of the English language easy and complete.
The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the evolution of the English language from 1150 to the...
Lucian Freud Paintings
AuthorRobert Hughes
ISBN0500275351
It is both startling and disconcerting, producing some of the most powerful and moving visual images to have appeared in the last thirty years. Freud—once dubbed "the Ingres of existentialism"—has almost single-handedly redefined the figurative painting of our time. No other living artist...
M.C. Escher: 29 Masterworks
AuthorM.C. Escher
ISBN0810922681
29 Twenty-nine woodcuts and lithographs make use of optical illusions and unusual perspectives and are accompanied by the artist's comments.

Nearly everyone will have seen some of the work of Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1970). His woodcuts and lithographs are largely...
Francis Bacon: Anatomy Of An Enigma
AuthorMichael Peppiatt
ISBN0813335205
Francis Bacon has long been recognized as one of the most original of all modern artists; his canvases of screaming popes and dismembered human figures are defining images of twentieth-century anguish. Bacon was also a legend in the London demimonde, a man who followed long nights of drinking, gambling,...
Joan Miro: 1893-1983
AuthorJanis Mink
ISBN3822859753
Miro's world of forms resembling shorthand symbols Joan Miro (1893-1983) is one of the most significant Spanish painters of the twentieth century. His early work clearly shows the influence of Fauvism and Cubism. The Catalan landscape also shapes the themes and treatment of these initial works....
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