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Summary: Swan Songs
Review: Although I know the author and, therefore, may be slightly biased, I was greatly impressed by the quality of her writing. On the surface the subject is not one that I would normally be interested in but I found Ms Laird's first book to be very readable and quite engrossing. In fact it inspired me to write the following:A Poetess of Prosody A poetess of prosody
Has burst upon the scene
For Swan Songs is an odyssey
That is her 1st Book supreme
This tale of princely Gumilev
And Akhmatova the queen
Of Acmeistic poetry
Is the best there has ever been
Her lyrical voice imbues one with
A sense of being there
From Tsarskoe Selo to the end
Of their life-long love affair
Incise thought and explication
Surround her every line
Close-coupled with her new translation
Of their poetry divine
Proud Literature enriched will be
By this work of one who cared
From duckling to a swan comes she
The fabulous Frances Laird Andrew Roxburgh McGhie
Rating:
Summary: Swan Songs
Review: Although I know the author and, therefore, may be slightly biased, I was greatly impressed by the quality of her writing. On the surface the subject is not one that I would normally be interested in but I found Ms Laird's first book to be very readable and quite engrossing. In fact it inspired me to write the following: A Poetess of Prosody A poetess of prosody
Has burst upon the scene
For Swan Songs is an odyssey
That is her 1st Book supreme
This tale of princely Gumilev
And Akhmatova the queen
Of Acmeistic poetry
Is the best there has ever been
Her lyrical voice imbues one with
A sense of being there
From Tsarskoe Selo to the end
Of their life-long love affair
Incise thought and explication
Surround her every line
Close-coupled with her new translation
Of their poetry divine
Proud Literature enriched will be
By this work of one who cared
From duckling to a swan comes she
The fabulous Frances Laird Andrew Roxburgh McGhie
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