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Many authors will use quotations from literature as the title for their works. This may be done as a conscious allusion to the themes of the older work or simply because the phrase seems memorable. The following is a partial list of book titles taken from literature. It does not include phrases altered for parody.
Facsimile of the original title page for William Congreve's The Way of the World published in 1700, on which the epigraph from Horace's Satires can be seen in the bottom quarter. In literature , an epigraph is a phrase, quotation , or poem that is set at the beginning of a document, monograph or section or chapter thereof. [ 1 ]
Auden refused to title his early work because he wanted the reader to confront the poetry itself. Consequently, his first book was called simply Poems when it was printed by his friend and fellow poet Stephen Spender in 1928; he used the same title for the very different book published by Faber and Faber in 1930 (2nd ed. 1933), and by Random ...
Rapture follows the narrator through a love story. It begins with falling in love. “Uninvited, the thought of you stayed too late in my head, so I went to bed, dreaming you hard, hard, woke with your name, like tears, soft, salt, on my lips, the sound of its bright syllables, like a charm, like a spell.” [2] Later on, the tone of the book shifts from head over heels in love to brokenhearted.
The other books in the series were not given a specific title. The first edition of The Mersey Sound contains 128 pages, the half-title page being number 1. Henri is first with 44 pages (30 poems), then McGough with 32 pages (24 poems) and Patten with 31 pages (26 poems). Front cover of the 1983 revised edition
Remembrance, another poem in the same sequence, is a poem about the loss of a loved one and was reprinted in a small sixteen-page volume of the same name in 1988 by the Souvenir Press with illustrations by Richard Allen (ISBN 0-285-62876-3) The following year, the Souvenir Press published another of the poems from the collection, My Flower Garden, again in a small sixteen-page volume with ...
In 1958, Troubadour Press published his first book, River of Red Wine. [4] Jack Kerouac wrote the introduction, describing Micheline's work as characterized by "the swinging free style I like and his sweet lines revive the poetry of open hope in America". [5] River of Red Wine was reviewed by Dorothy Parker in Esquire magazine.
A book is a garden you can carry in your pocket." -Arabian proverb "Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers." -Charles W. Eliot "The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait." -Anatole Broyard