
Transports of Delight : An Aromatic Journey in Verse from East to West on the Wings of Perfume.
Title:
Transports of Delight : An Aromatic Journey in Verse from East to West on the Wings of Perfume.
Author:
Pybus, David.
ISBN:
9789004213449
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (144 pages)
Contents:
Transports of Delight -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- The Ballad of East and West -- Prologue -- Scent -- JAPAN -- Fragrance of the Orange -- Once there was a Man -- 10 Uses of Koh (Incense) -- Brought by the Breeze -- An Ephemeral Spring Dream -- In the Moonlight -- Flowers of Hill or Dale -- When the East Wind Blows -- After Bells had Rung -- From Memoirs of a Geisha -- From The Musmee -- From The Buddha at Kamakura -- CHINA, TIBETANDEAST INDIES -- When Two People are at One -- Xanadu -- The Glories of Kinsay (Hangchow) -- The Scent of Autumn -- Hymn to Incense -- The Widow's Tale -- From Lord Jim -- Burning Incense -- INDIAANDTHE LEVANT -- Soft as a Bud -- When We Have Loved -- In the Month of Vaishaka* -- The Prophet -- Awake, O Heart -- Song of Arabian Camel Drovers -- The Capture of a Rose by Distillation -- From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam -- Gulistan (Garden of a Rose) -- Sinbad's Other Tale -- Incantation -- Take Unto Thee Sweet Spices -- The Smell of Lebanon -- From The Gardener -- EUROPE -- Here First She Bathes -- When I Drink Wine -- The Histories -- Phoenix -- You Will Dine Well, Dear Fabullus -- My Boy's Kisses -- Poetry is Hard -- The Smell of Gum -- Chypre (Cyprus) -- The Ordinall Of Alchemy -- Secret of the Philosophers -- Sonnet 54 -- Coming To Kiss Her Lips -- A Fragrante Prayer -- To the Most Fair and LovelyMistress Anne Soame -- Upon Julia's Unlacing Herself -- Ask Me No More -- From Rhodon and Iris -- A Nosegay for Laura -- Edict of George III,King of England -- Cologne -- The Wallflower -- From Ode to a Nightingale -- From The Sensitive Plant -- Le Parfum -- Awakenings -- Love and Sleep -- Perfume -- Memory -- White Heliotrope -- Odour -- Eros D'aute -- Hothouse Flowers -- From The Picture of Dorian Gray -- A Lure -- The Connoisseur of Woodsmoke -- Ithaka -- Sent -- THE AMERICAS -- To Celia -- From Bermudas.
Meditation 9 -- From The song of Hiawatha -- To Helen -- Smoke -- Ambergris -- From Waikiki -- The Flower-fed Buffaloes -- The Earth is Precious -- Roots and Leaves -- The Sign -- E P I L O G U E -- Earth Scent -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- The Harvey Crest.
Abstract:
This book is a celebration through verse of man's extraordinary sensory world of smell, connecting East and West. Here is a fascinating and delightful anthology, drawn from around the world and across the millennia, capturing a kaleidoscope of emotions, moods and memories, all of which are energized and enhanced by smells of every kind.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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