Lifelines: Letters from Famous People about Their Favourite PoemNiall MacMonagle Town House, 1992 - 338 pages 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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... turns into a cul - de - sac springtime turns to ice rucksacks turn into hunchbacks musclemen turn into mice in a painless panorama with its perpendicular might the women are going bananas and disappearing from sight John Cooper Clarke ...
... turns into a cul - de - sac springtime turns to ice rucksacks turn into hunchbacks musclemen turn into mice in a painless panorama with its perpendicular might the women are going bananas and disappearing from sight John Cooper Clarke ...
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... turn our hearts as on we rove , To those we've left behind us . When , round the bowl , of vanish'd years We talk , with joyous seeming , With smiles that might as well be tears , So faint , so sad their beaming ; While mem'ry brings us ...
... turn our hearts as on we rove , To those we've left behind us . When , round the bowl , of vanish'd years We talk , with joyous seeming , With smiles that might as well be tears , So faint , so sad their beaming ; While mem'ry brings us ...
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... Turn away no more : Why wilt thou turn away The starry floor , The watry shore Is giv'n thee till the break of day . - These lines from Blake's ' Introduction ' to The Songs of Experience expressed my belief that poetry could awaken our ...
... Turn away no more : Why wilt thou turn away The starry floor , The watry shore Is giv'n thee till the break of day . - These lines from Blake's ' Introduction ' to The Songs of Experience expressed my belief that poetry could awaken our ...
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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