Unfaded Garland: Meditations on Light and SilenceA&C Black, 2001 M03 3 - 48 pages This "commonplace book developed out of a painter's experience of light and silence, timelessness and infinity" is illustrated with nineteen of the author's watercolors expressing the central theme of the meditations. These are grouped into themes--painting and prayer; infinity; enlightenment; darkness; stillness and listening; unseen light and so on--with well-chosen quotations linked by Mary Burton's texts. A book that can be read in an hour and give pleasure for years. |
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A. D. Sertilanges Abbaye de Sénanque afternoon Archibald MacLeish beauty Besht Bloodaxe Books 1986 Books for excerpts Chapel Charles Bartlett Colin Semper Collected Poems Dennis Potter echo experience Faber Limited Four Quartets Freema Gottlieb Gates Photography Ltd George Caird Gerard Manley Hopkins Hymns Ancient Intercessions at Worship Interview with Dennis Irina Tweedie Joachim Pissarro kana Later Poems Leonardo da Vinci light on things London looking Mary Burton Michael Paffard Michael Sadgrove Michel Ciry Midnight Flute Modern New Standard Monet's Cathedral P. J. Gates Photography Painting and Prayer Paul Valéry Peter Matthiessen Philip Larkin Photograph by P. J. play of light Poems and Prose Press for excerpts Prose of Gerard R. S. Thomas Reprinted by permission Row Publishers sea nor high Selected Poems Shadow silence St Beuno's T. S. Eliot Theodore Roethke Thoughts of Leonardo trans translated Unattended untitled Ursula LeGuin Virginia Woolf Wallace Stevens William McCausland Stewart York