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CHARLES BAUDELAIRE --- FLOWERS OF EVIL --- Poems translated by Cyril Scott --- Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a celebrated 19th century French poet, author of the famous Flowers of Evil poetic sequence, first published in 1857. Baudelaire is a poet's poet par excellence, a brilliant craftsman who produced some of the finest poems in the French language. Baudelaire was known as a dandy who led a bohemian lifestyle, he knew many of the artis...

NOVALIS --- HENRY OF OFTERDINGEN ---- Edited by Carol Appleby --- This edition of the unfinished novel by Novalis, Henry of Ofterdingen, is translated by Frederick S. Stallknecht & Edward C. Sprague. Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg, 1772-1801) is the most mystical of the German Romantic poets. He is at once the most typical and the most unusual of the German Romantic writers, indeed, of all Romantic poets. His best known work, Hymnen an die ...

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MURILLO --- By S.L. Bensusan ---- This is a study of the great Spanish painter Bartolomé Esteban, known to the world as Murillo, and perhaps the best-loved Spanish artist of the era, along with Velazquez, El Greco, Ribera, Zurburan, and Goya. The book features discussions of Murillo's famous works, as well as a biography of the artist. --- Fully illustrated, including illustrations of Murillo's contemporaries. 92pp. www.crmoon.com

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE: A STUDY --- By Arthur SymonsCharles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a celebrated 19th century French poet, author of the famous Flowers of Evil poetic sequence, first published in 1857. Baudelaire is a poet's poet par excellence, a brilliant craftsman who produced some of the finest poems in the French language. Baudelaire was known as a dandy who led a bohemian lifestyle, he knew many of the artists of the era (Manet, Nadar, De...

GIOTTO --- Introduced by Julia Cartwright --- This is a study of the great Italian Renaissance painter, Giotto. The book features discussions of Giotto's famous works, including at Padua, Florence, Rome and Assisi, as well as a biography of the artist. A chapter of art criticism includes Vasari, Van Dyke, Colvin, John Ruskin, J.A. Symonds, E.H. and E. W. Blashfield and Harry Quilter. --- Fully illustrated, including illustrations of Giotto's c...

VELASQUEZ --- By S.L. Bensusan --- This is a study of the great Spanish painter Diego Velasquez, one of the best-loved Spanish artists of the era, along with Murillo, El Greco, Ribera, Zurburan, and Goya. The book features discussions of Velasquez's famous works, as well as a biography of the artist.--- Fully illustrated, including illustrations of Velasquez's contemporaries. 92pp. www.crmoon.com

GIOTTOBy Harry Quilter --- This is a study of the great Italian Renaissance painter, Giotto. The book features discussions of Giotto's famous works, including at Padua, Florence, Rome and Assisi, art in 13th century Italy, the art of frescoes, as well as a biography of the artist. --- Fully illustrated, including illustrations of Giotto's contemporaries. 212pp. www.crmoon.com

FRA FILIPPO LIPPI ---- By Paul G. Konody ---- This is a study of the great Italian Renaissance painter Fra Filippo Lippi (1406-1469). He is best-known for his lyrical images of the Virgin and Child, his art has affinities with Angelico and Massacio. He was the father of the painter Filippino Lippi. The book features discussions of Lippi's famous works, as well as a biography of the artist. This is a reprint of a study by Paul Konody from 1911....

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BARTHOLOMEW GRIFFIN: FIDESSA: ELIZABETHAN SONNET CYCLE ---- Edited by Mark Tuley ---- Introduced by Martha Foote CrowBartholomew Griffin's 'Fidessa: More Chaste Than Kind' (1596) is one of the lesser-known Elizabethan sonnet sequences, reprinted here in an attractive new edition. The book includes a note on Bartholomew Griffin by Martha Foote Crow, illustrations, and suggestions for further reading. Each poem has a page to itself. It's a usefu...

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WHISTLER By T. Martin Wood A study of the American artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), first published in 1908. T. Martin Wood considers Whistler's life and artistic career, and discusses his major works. Fully illustrated in a brand new format, from each stage in James Whistler's career, plus illustrations of some of Whistler's contemporary artists. Painters Series. 220 pages. www.crmoon.com

GEORGE MACDONALD RAMPOLI: POEMS FROM MAINLY GERMAN Edited by Carol Appeby This collection of mainly German poets includes giants such as Schiller, Goethe, Heine, Novalis, Petrarch and Milton. George Macdonald is one of the great translators of poetry, as Novalis' 'Hymns To the Night' (printed in its entirety) shows here. Scottish fantasist George MacDonald (1824-95) included Lewis Carroll and John Ruskin among his literary friends. His well-kn...

THE CRESCENT MOON BOOK OF ROMANTIC POETRY Edited and introduced by L.M. Poole The great Romantics poets are featured in this anthology - William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Emily Brontë, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Clare - as well as many lesser-known women poets. New poems have been added for this edition, plus a new gallery of portraits of poets. FROM THE INTRODUCTION The Romantic poets wrote s...

PAGAN AMERICA: AN ANTHOLOGY OF NEW AMERICAN POETRY Part of the Pagan American Series Edited by Jeremy Mark Robinson A book of passionate poetry from North America and Canada. There are many new poems published here, many young poets, and poets being published for the first time. Some of the writers have been published in small magazines in the U.S.A., while others, such as Siouxsie D, have given poetry readings. The term 'pagan' is used very l...

EDMUND SPENSER: AMORETTI The Amoretti by Edmund Spenser (c. 1552-99), published in 1595, is one of the great Elizabethan cycles of love poetry. The Amoretti cycle of poems is printed here in full, with each sonnet on its own on a page. This is beautiful poetry, poems of love, full of Edmund Spenser's delicate and intricate way with words. The Amoretti are packed of vivid imagery, of the natural world, of the seasons, of suns and moons, of days...

THE CRESCENT MOON BOOK OF NATURE POETRY Edited and introduced by Margaret Elvy An anthology of great nature poems, including the Elizabethan pastorals of Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh and Michael Drayton, and classics of nature mysticism by Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, James Thomson, William Blake and William Wordsworth, among others. Famous anthology pieces nestle amongst lesser known poems, including some neg...

The Erotic Object: Sexuality in Sculpture From Prehistory to the Present By Susan Quinnell Revised and updated, with new illustrations. The power and eroticism of sculpture, form, volume and space are sensitively explored in this wide-ranging study, which takes in the history of sculpture from prehistoric times to contemporary art. Featuring discussions of many famous sculptors, including: Michelangelo Buonarroti, Antonio Canova, Auguste Rodin...

H É L È N E C I X O U SI LOVE YOU: THE JOUISSANCE OF WRITINGREVISED AND UPDATED, WITH NEW ILLUSTRATIONSHélène Cixous is a challenging and lyrical French feminist and writer, author of the influential essay "The Laugh of the Medusa" and (with Catherine Clément) The Newly-Born Woman. Cixous is immensely productive, writing novels, plays, essays and poetic prose. Her ideas have provoked much debate in feminism: on the body, orgasmic writing, 'femi...