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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Canongate Books

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781847678584

RRP: £8.99

PAGES: 320

PUBLICATION DATE:
January 1, 2010

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Red Rose or a Satin Heart

Antonia Fraser

From First love to Farewells, this book contains the full gamut of emotions inspired by poetry’s most popular subject: love. Meet the romantics and the unromantics, the obsessed and the fainthearted, the tragic and the comic, in all their lyrical glory. Antonia Fraser has made a touching, canny and diverse selection of poems from the fifteenth century to the present day, from ballads to sonnets to modern verse. Included alongside well-known masters like Burns, Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson, are contemporary poets such as Kathleen Jamie, John Burnside and Carol Ann Duffy, illuminating the ways of the heart in all its forms.

Reviews of Red Rose or a Satin Heart

'Far from the dourness and taciturnity of legend, the Scot appears here as a lover only slightly less impressive than the Italian.' The Times

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Antonia Fraser

Lady Antonia Fraser (Pinter)’s most recent biography is the internationally bestselling Marie Antoinette: The Journey (2006), which was made into a film directed by Sofia Coppola; she has also written Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King, Mary, Queen of Scots, Cromwell: Our Chief of Men and Charles II, as well as a short study, King James VI & I, in the Kings and Queen of England series she edits. She has written three studies of women in history, The Weaker Vessel, The Warrior Queens and The Six Wives of Henry VIII. Lady Antonia Fraser has received the Wolfson History Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and the 2000 Medallion of the Historical Association.