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Green Fruit was originally published in 1917, the year the author graduated from Princeton. Crafted with elegant language and vivid imagery, the collection harkens back to the British Romantics of the 18th and 19th centuries. Readers will discover poems about nature, the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, classical figures, and love and loss. John Peale Bishop was born in Charles Town, WV in 1892. He graduated from Mercersburg Academy and t...

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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Excerpt from The Undertaker's GarlandWe have often been asked what determined us to write a book about death. It has been pointed out that we were very young and ordinarily in the best of health and that everybody at our age was sup posed to be bursting with life. We were frequently reminded that Sir Thomas Browne had been fifty three when he wrote his Urn Burial and that even Jeremy Taylor was thirty-eight when he published Holy Dying. Indeed...

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Excerpt from The Undertaker's Garland We have often been asked what determined us to write a book about death. It has been pointed out that we were very young and ordinarily in the best of health and that everybody at our age was sup posed to be bursting with life. We were frequently reminded that Sir Thomas Browne had been fifty three when he wrote his Urn Burial and that even Jeremy Taylor was thirty-eight when he published Holy Dying. Inde...

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The Shelf2Life Literature and Fiction Collection is a unique set of short stories, poems and novels from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. From tales of love, life and heartbreaking loss to humorous stories of ghost encounters, these volumes captivate the imaginations of readers young and old. Included in this collection are a variety of dramatic and spirited poems that contemplate the mysteries of life and celebrate the wild beauty of na...