Transports of delight : an aromatic journey in verse from East to West on the wings of perfume
Annotation This book is a feast for the nose! Transports of Delight is a celebration through verse of man & rsquo;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 & ndash; & lsquo;smells which match our moods, promote our passions, provoke a sense of awe in the natural world around us, and bring us closer to our gods & rsquo;. The anthology, containing over a hundred poems and excerpts from literature including The Teachings of the Buddha and Ben Johnson & rsquo;s intoxicating & lsquo;Drink to me only with thine eyes & rsquo; (Ode to Celia), takes the reader from Japan to China, Tibet and the East Indies, on to India and the Levant, then to Europe and finally to the Americas. Transports of Delight will certainly help transport and delight the reader to another level of sensory pleasure & ndash; far removed from today & rsquo;s audio-visual world of ipods, televisions, CDs and DVDs!
Poetry
1 online resource (xi, 131 pages)
9789004213449, 9004213449
608562022
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 BudWhen 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 PrayerTo 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 BuffaloesThe Earth is Precious; Roots and Leaves; The Sign; E P I L O G U E; Earth Scent; Glossary; Bibliography; The Harvey Crest
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
NorQuest College Access (Unlimited Concurrent Users) from EBSCO Academic Collection