{"product_id":"elegy-landscapes-hardcover-by-stanley-plumly","title":"Elegy Landscapes Hardcover by Stanley Plumly","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eWW Norton\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2018-08-21)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e208\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780393651508\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e485.35\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e21.84 x 16.51 x 2.54\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sweeping look at the lives and work of two important English Romantic painters, from a \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize–winning author.\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRenowned poet Stanley Plumly, who has been praised for his “obsessive, intricate, intimate and brilliant” (\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) nonfiction, explores immortality in art through the work of two impressive landscape artists: John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. How is it that this disparate pair will come to be regarded as Britain’s supreme landscape painters, precursors to Impressionism and Modernism? How did each painter’s life influence his work?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlmost exact contemporaries, both legendary artists experience a life-changing tragedy—for Constable it is the long illness and death of his wife; for Turner, the death of his singular parent and supporter, his father. Their work will take on new power thereafter: Constable, his Hampstead cloud studies; Turner, his Venetian watercolors and oils. Seeking the transcendent aesthetic awe of the sublime and reeling from their personal anguish, these talented painters portrayed the terrible beauty of the natural world from an intimate, close-up perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlumly studies the paintings against the pull of the artists’ lives, probing how each finds the sublime in different, though inherently connected, worlds. At once a meditation on the difficulties in achieving truly immortal works of art and an exploration of the relationship between artist and artwork, \u003ci\u003eElegy Landscapes\u003c\/i\u003e takes a wide-angle look at the philosophy of the sublime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStanley Plumly\u003c\/b\u003e (1939–2019) was the author of numerous collections of poetry including \u003ci\u003eIn the Outer Dark\u003c\/i\u003e (1970), winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, and \u003ci\u003eOut-of-the-Body Travel\u003c\/i\u003e (1978), nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Other works include \u003ci\u003eGiraffe\u003c\/i\u003e (1973), \u003ci\u003eSummer Celestial\u003c\/i\u003e (1983), \u003ci\u003eBoy on the Step\u003c\/i\u003e (1989), \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage in the Trees\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), and \u003ci\u003eNow That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, 1970–2000 (2000), \u003ci\u003eAgainst Sunset\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), and the posthumous \u003ci\u003eMiddle Distance\u003c\/i\u003e (2020). His collection \u003ci\u003eOld Heart\u003c\/i\u003e (2009) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Paterson Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He authored four works of prose: \u003ci\u003ePosthumous Keats: A Personal Biography\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), which was named runner-up for the PEN\/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography; \u003ci\u003eThe Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), which received the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism; \u003ci\u003eElegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), and \u003ci\u003eArgument and Song: Sources and Silences in Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (2003). Plumly was a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland as well as Maryland’s poet laureate from 2009 to 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46553178439841,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780393651508","price":37.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780393651508.jpg?v=1781728547","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/elegy-landscapes-hardcover-by-stanley-plumly","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}