{"product_id":"forgotten-beauty","title":"Forgotten Beauty","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eForgotten Beauty\u003c\/em\u003e is an anthology of Irish love poetry from over fifteen hundred years of Irish writing, presenting the work of famous and lesser known writers. The poems express the loves and longings of Irish poets in language that is at once beautiful, evocative, passionate and deeply meaningful. If there is a continuity in Irish love poetry over the centuries, it lies in the sheer complexity of the writers' approach to the subject: loving and leaving, wooing and wishing, finding love or falling out of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn the nine sections of the anthology, each arranged chronologically, the poets' engagement with their lovers are charted across all the ups and downs of human relations with wit and compassion. Beginning with \u003cem\u003eDialogues\u003c\/em\u003e, in which the individual couples' voices are heard speaking of their passions, the poets wrestle through the pangs of \u003cem\u003eLove\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eDeclared\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLove Denied\u003c\/em\u003e. The erotic is found in \u003cem\u003eEros, \u003c\/em\u003ewhile \u003cem\u003eYouth and Age\u003c\/em\u003e are areas of conflict for lovers. The closeness of belonging is found in \u003cem\u003eRelationships\u003c\/em\u003e, confirmed and developed in \u003cem\u003eDomestic Love\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eTroubled Love\u003c\/em\u003e redraws the battleground of emotional intensity and, finally, \u003cem\u003eDead Loves\u003c\/em\u003e mourns lost loved ones.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe Irish artists whose paintings accompany the poems are drawn from the seventeenth century to the present. Their work expands on, confirms or contrasts in various ways with the poems, creating dynamic exchanges between poet and painter. Both in their various ways celebrate the human emotions and relish the beauty and truth to be found in the meeting of the visual image with the written word.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA selection of over sixty love poems from the past 1,000 years, including works by all the best-known and most familiar Irish poets, such as Yeats, Wilde, Joyce, Heaney and Kavanagh.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gill Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":55124001292675,"sku":"9780717157792","price":22.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0910\/3664\/7811\/files\/44ab838502a4f60b3fb20cb3169b9161.jpg?v=1741014853","url":"https:\/\/shop.gill.ie\/products\/forgotten-beauty","provider":"Gill","version":"1.0","type":"link"}