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Lawrence's reputation as a novelist has often meant that his achievements in poetry have failed to receive the recognition they deserve. This edition brings together, in a form he himself sanctioned, his Collected Poems of 1928, the unexpurgated version of Pansies, and Nettles, adding to these volumes the contents of the two notebooks in which he was still writing poetry when he died in 1930. It therefore allows the reader to trace the development of Lawrence as a poet and appreciate the remarkable originality and distinctiveness of his achievement. Not all the poems reprinted here are masterpieces but there is more than enough quality to confirm Lawrence's status as one of the greatest English writers of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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One long poetic journal
Lawrence's poems have never been among my favorites. I think one reason is that they have been so flowing and evanescent, have not come to some critical point in great memorable lines. They are spontaneous outpourings and make a record of his inner life and struggle. And in this inner life he feels into nature and makes the things of this world, animals, trees, plants feel his feelings and respond as him to him. The strange sympathy which overflows in Lawrence makes him unique as a poet.
Joyce Carol Oates in a long instructive critical essay on Lawrence explains part of his poetic practice this way.
"Lawrence's poems are blunt, exasperating, imposing upon us his strangely hectic, strangely delicate music, in fragments, in tantalizing broken-off parts of a whole too vast to be envisioned--and then withdrawing again. They are meant to be spontaneous works, spontaneously experienced; they are not meant to give us the sense of grandeur or permanence that other poems attempt, the fallacious sense of immortality that is an extension of the poet's ego. Yet they achieve a kind of immortality precisely in this: that they transcend the temporal, the intellectual. They are ways of experiencing the ineffable "still point" that Eliot could approach only through abstract language.

"It is illuminating to read Lawrence's entire poetic work as a kind of journal, in which not only the finished poems themselves but variants and early drafts and uncollected poems constitute a strange unity--an autobiographical novel, perhaps--that begins with "The quick sparks . . ." and ends with "immortal bird." This massive work is more powerful, more emotionally combative, than even the greatest of his novels. Between first and last line there is literally everything: beauty, waste, "flocculent ash," the ego in a state of rapture and in a state of nausea, a diverse streaming of chaos and cunning."

Lawrence so restless so individual could not bear the constrictions of traditional poetic form, and he stretches the free verse technique of Whitman even further, bending its broken lines to the shape of his own soul.

I think Oates has its right, and Lawrence is not properly read by reading a poem here and there, but only by immersing oneself in the total flow of his work.

Again his soul and feeling and world are not mine but it is impossible not to feel the poetry interfused in almost all he writes.


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Essence of Wit and Wisdom
A great collection of short stories that describe the life of simple people, in simple circumstances, yet seen from extraordinary points of view. Stories that make you say, why didn't I see that ? There's a rhythmto the writing that makes it very close to poetry. ... Read more

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Parents of kids with A.D.H.D. (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) have been taught that the disorder is a serious handicap--that it will make raising their child difficult, and that the child will continually struggle to succeed in school and throughout life. Parents are looking for hope, encouragement, and answers to their questions. Why A.D.H.D. Doesn't Mean Disaster gives parents of children with A.D.H.D. just what they need: a strong dose of encouragement from fellow parents who have children with A.D.H.D., support for valuing the benefits of having a child with an attention disorder, and just the right amount of practical medical advice needed for understanding. ... Read more

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Good perspective
Looking for a different perspective on ADHD?Here it is.The book doesn't try to whitewash the very real concerns of ADHD, yet manages to reveal some positive aspects.And it provides some coping strategties and "lessons learned" that can benefit the whole family.

Hope!
As a parent of a newly diagnosed 5 year old, this book was an absolute God-send!It offers so much hope for parents struggling with children with ADHD.I laughed and cried my way through it as I recognized my child over and over in this book.It offered hope that what he is struggling with is not the end of the world and that he will be ok!It also offers practical medical advice regarding the different medications available and takes the guilt out of medicating a child who truly needs it.I also found the section on school tips to be extremely practical and helpful.This book is at the top of my list of must-reads for the parent of any AHDH/ADD child.

I dont know
When I started reading this book I thought it was great that the authors used many examples from their lives and the lives of their kids.But throughout the book I felt I was learning more and more about the lives of the kids in their family rather than about ADHD.There are much better books out there for ADHD than this one.

I do have to say that the chapters that the docotr wrote were great (the Q&A one and the ones about treatments).Good job doc!

A Must Have!
This book is an absolute must have for any parent who is struggling with a child with ADHD!My son was diagnosed 3 years ago and I have done tons research and read many books on the subject in that time!Most books say pretty much the same things - your child has a disability- not so this book!The book's unique way of looking at the issue, stems from one of the authors (Dennis Swanberg) actually having ADHD himself as well as both he and the Co-author Diane Passno raising children of their own with ADHD. After you have read this book you will realize that your child isn't disabled at all and you will have a new understanding of this "disorder" and your child.

The Good About ADHD
This book showed the positive side of individuals with ADHD and offered some excellent advice.These are unique individuals with many gifts. ... Read more

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The vital sap
Lawrence began with imitative Georgian verse filled with archaic turns and cliched tropes. But influenced by Whitman he turned to a kind of free verse, and so began his long life in creating a vital poetry. Lawrence's poetry is the expression of his most initimate feelings. The poems which are most renowed are those which express his relation to nature,"The Snake" perhaps being the most well- known of them. He also has however especially towards the end , poetry which simply argues and derides those who oppose him.
His poetry becomes so ' free ' at time that it would seem closer to 'prose poetry' than Poetry itself.
His poems are short, and have sudden turns which may spring the lines to life.
I find however a shortcoming in what I would call a lack of 'memorable lines'.

Great Collection!
The collection of poems is great.The book is very complete and organized in a easyto read format.I'm really glad I bought this book.

D.H.
I became acquainted with Lawrence's novels my sophomore year in college, and was hooked. A couple of years down the line, a professor recommended I take a look at his poetry, which he suggested was equally great, if not greater. He said he was like a British Whitman. Investigating the analogy, I came across this quote of Lawrence's: "Whitman, the great poet, has meant so much to me. Whitman, the one man breaking a way ahead. Whitman, the one pioneer. And only Whitman. No English pioneers, no French. No European pioneer-poets. In Europe the would-be pioneers are mere innovators. The same in America. Ahead of Whitman, nothing. Ahead of all poets, pioneering into the wilderness of unopened life, Whitman. Beyond him, none." Hyperbolic? Could be, and I'm admittedly a poor judge of poetry, much of it passing over my head, but there is more than enough in this hefty 1,000+ page paperback edition to convince me of Lawrence's greatness in verse. The book is split into "Rhyming poems," "Unrhyming poems," "Pansies," "Nettles," "Last poems" and "Uncollected poems." A couple of the shorter ones--
SUNSET
"There is a band of dull gold in the west, and say what you like
again and again some god of evening leans out of it
and shares being with me, silkily
all of twilight."
REVOLUTIONS AS SUCH!
"Curiously enough, actual revolutions are made by robots,
living people never make revolutions,
they can't, life means too much to them."
TALK OF FAITH
"And people who talk about faith
usually want to force somebody to agree with them,
as if there was safety in numbers, even for faith."
LUCIFER
"Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
But tell me, tell me, how do you know
that he lost any of his brightness in falling?
He only fell out of your ken, you orthodox angels,
you dull angels, tarnished with centuries of conventionality."

A must for all Special Forces.
This is the best book that i have. It is a must read for all who can read and all Special Forces. It put life on hold as you read it.

The most moving is "self pity"

I never saw a wild thingsorry foritself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever havingfelt sorry for itself. --D. H. Lawrence

To this reader,poems and essays of DHL are his best works.
This book of poems shares the top spot in my bookcase with Whitman's"Leaves of Grass".They are accessible, highly perceptive,pertinent and intensely personal.My favorites are:

"FIDELITY"- "...The wonderful slow flow of the sapphire..."

"GOD IS BORN" - "...And so we see, Godis notuntil he is born.And also weseethere is no end to the birthofGod."

"SHIP OF DEATH" (Appendix III version) -"...Pulling the long oars of a lifetime's courage, ...and eating the brave bread of a wholesomeknowledge..."

"GRIEF" - "...How am I clotted togetherOut of this soft matrix...The air, theflowing sunshine and brightdust..."

"WEDLOCK" - "...How sure the future iswithin me.I am like a seed with a perfectflower enclosed..."

Finally, as a scientist I marvel at hisintuitive grasp of relativity in "SPACE" and"RELATIVITY" - ..."As if the atom were an impulsive thingalways changing its mind."

I would be delighted to share myenthusiasm with other readers. ... Read more

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"The best poems of D. H. Lawrence are comprised in this book... Preface by a brilliant essay by Kenneth Rexroth." ... Read more

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Fragments are best
Lawrence wrote two kinds of poetry as he wrote two kinds of Literature. One is alive, spontaneous , reacts to and connects with external reality, even brings that reality alive through sympathetic identification with it. The second kind of poetry is dogmatic, one- dimensional, opinionizing and comes at us without complexity. It is the preaching poetry.
The best poetry of Lawrence is that which flows and is fused with a kind of ongoing passion, and feeling.
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Great Novels of D.H. Lawrence
Two masterpieces from the great writer who shocked the world

The Rainbow
Lady Chatterley's Lover

D.H. Lawrence shocked his age with the sensuality of his subject matter and the sheer power and energy of his prose. Lady Chatterley's Lover was branded obscene only 40 years ago, and yet now is heralded as a masterpiece of modern fiction.

The Rainbow is thought by many to be his finest novel. ... Read more

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from SEA GARDEN (1916) through TRILOGY (1944) ... Read more

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The Perfect Ship still missing ONE Mast!
The only way to improve upon this volume would be to include "Helen in Egypt" in the next edition. Then it would be truly complete, and truly perfect, fit to sail unto the unfix-ed Stars!

A Fantastic Collection
This book, bringing together all of H.D.'s poetry from her Imagist beginnings to her wartime "Trilogy," is a must have.For those who (like me) are novices with respect to modernist poetry, this presents a fantastic introduction.H.D.'s images have a richness and depth that I have not found elsewhere.Subject (poet as person) and object (metaphorical image) are so closely interwoven that one is instantly captivated by her presentations.This is particularly true of her use of Greek mythology - she resurrects ancient symbols in her own voice.Many of her images are simply breathtaking in their energy, depth, and beauty.This books is an essential read.

H.D.: The Essential Imagist
For lovers of modernist literature, this tome is a must. Including her first published book and covering the period until (and through) her astounding achievement in her war Trilogy, the Collected Poems allows areader to fully get to know H.D. in all her many moods. Also includingpoetry from the period in which she was undergoing psychoanalysis withFreud, the poems give a full picture of H.D.'s talent and life. H.D. is apoet to be read with all the other, better known modernists: T.S. Eliot,D.H. Lawrence, et. al. Her beautiful work ranges from her early imagistwork to her more visionary, mythic poem cycles contained in the final partof her Collected Poems, in Trilogy. Breathtaking. ... Read more

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D.H. Lawrence, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, is particularly known for his controversial writings on erotica.Now recognized as an achievement of great literary merit, his Lady Chatterley's Lover, included in this sweeping collection on sex and love, was banned here until 1959.Along with eight of Lawrence's best novels, novellas, short stories, and essays, and fourteen poems, this volume includes the rare, unexpurgated version of this "revolutionary poet of desire's" story "Sun." ... Read more

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These three novellas explore human relationships and the devastating results of war. In The Fox, a predator targets two young women living on a small farm during the First World War. The Captain’s Doll explores the complex relationship between a German countess and a married Scottish soldier in occupied Germany. In The Ladybird, a wounded prisoner of war has a disturbing influence on the Englishwoman who visits him in the hospital.
* Uses the restored texts of the Cambridge edition
* Includes a new introduction, chronology, and further readingDownload Description
D.H. Lawrence wrote these three novelettes between November 1920 and December 1921. The ending of the first version of The Fox, written in 1918, is given in an appendix; Lawrence later added a "long tail". The Ladybird also started out as a short story, but was completely rewritten; two manuscript pages omitted by the typist are included for the first time. The Captain's Doll arose out of Lawrence's visit to Austria in the summer of 1920. Professor Dieter Mehl gives the composition histories, and relates problems with typists and in publication. There is an appendix on the models for the main characters and the setting of The Fox. ... Read more

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The Doll's Captain
In " The Captain's Doll" the reader experiences a relationship that is not well-accepted by society. The Captain Hepburn and his mistress Hannele. The love in an affair is not a twosided love, usually one person ends up giving themselves more than the other person involved.Hannele questions herself throughout her relationship with the Captain and the intergery of their love. He does not want to love her and all she wants to do is love him.The story is very easy to read and short. It is a great book and I truly recommend it.

The title fits the content
I had to read this book for a literature class, and it was chosen to be our favorite by far.The discussions deepened from lesbians,co-dependancy, and control.Of the three main characters we actually foundfive.Each lady has a different personality depending on what name she iscalled by.We may be reaching but it was interesting backing it up withthe text.If you enjoy D.H. Lawrence you will love this novella. ... Read more

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This is another good book to have at your desk for those between-chapter breaks: flip it open and read from this distillation of over 300 letters written by D. H. Lawrence.There are letters to lords and ladies, culture barons, chambermaids and pals, discoursing widely on Whitman, wilderness ("the big old pagan cosmos"), German gingerbread, and Mexican railways--the selections are fun and lively, and they illuminate an era.Plus, his political predictions tend to be right on the money: "Chaos," Lawrence writes, "is necessary for Russia." For the peripatetic author, too: Lawrence never stayed in one place too long.The better to keep up the letters.Book Description
D.H. Lawrence's renowned creativity is conspicuous in his letters. He wrote to aristocrats, fellow authors, painters, publishers, and others from the intelligentsia--but with equal concern to his sisters, a childhood friend suffering from tuberculosis, a post office clerk or an Italian servant-girl. Lawrence reveled in the act of communication, using a direct, unvarnished but invariably vivid style appropriate to each correspondent. In this book, over 330 of Lawrence's letters, carefully chosen from the authoritative seven-volume Cambridge Edition exemplify Lawrence's artistry and humanness. In his introductory essay James T. Boulton provides a rare critical assessment of Lawrence's epistolary achievement. There are annotations to the letters, a biographical list of correspondents, brief chronological and descriptive introductions to each section and a full general index. This selection will appeal to Lawrence aficionados and will make good companion reading to his works. ... Read more

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This reissue of the classic "Trilogy" by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961), now includes a large section of referential notes for readers and students, compiled by Professor Aliki Barnstone. As civilian war poetry (written under the shattering impact of World War II). "Trilogy's" three long poems rank with T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" and Ezra Pound's "Pisan Cantos." The first book of the Trilogy, "The Walls Do Not Fall," published in the midst of the "fifty thousand incidents" of the London blitz, maintains the hope that though "we have no map; / possibly we will reach haven,/ heaven." "Tribute to Angels" describes new life springing from the ruins, and finally, in "The Flowering of the Rod"--with its epigram "...pause to give/ thanks that we rise again from death and live."--faith in love and resurrection is realized in lyric and strongly Biblical imagery. ... Read more

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A Counterpoint to Eliot's Four Quartets
H.D.'s "Trilogy" was written about the same time as Eliot's "Four Quartets."

It's a shame H.D.'s war-poem/philosopy-poem isn't as well known as Eliot's.

Eliot deals with time and timelessness--or the eternal within time--and while his verse is very seductive and beautifully interweaves the abstract and the concrete, it merely points to sublimity, never really reaches it.

H.D.'s "Trilogy," really reaches it.There are many many epiphanies made concrete, and her very simple but shattering verse actually takes you to them.

This is a marvelously fluent poem.Yes, there are allusions, but they are simple and bonus, rather than essential.

It is one of those poems that is quite clear immediately, yet repays reading after reading.

It's a pity so few current poets write with such depth and breadth--to say nothing of such passion.

The Violence Drove Me Inward
Poems of angels and gems and fragrance and stars, all written on the downward slope of WWII.H.D. praises the life that survives, the mythic returns of Amen-Ra and Christ, which is also the first budding of spring.London joins in these poems with Karnak and St. John's second city, Paradise--a resurrection of "our earth before Adam," that "grain or seed/opened like a flower."Angels and Magi bring their usual good news, but the last word belongs to Mary Magdalene and the goddesses behind her, shifting from Isis to Venus to H.D. herself.The thick web of allusions reads at times like a parody of Modernist excess, but the impulse behind them (and these were written quickly, after a long dry spell) is more inspired than erudite.H.D. improvised a religion of her own that enfolded the War like a shell, tranforming its destruction to a promise of new life."Trilogy" is a quiet testament to her faith in writing as redemption, the poet as witness and priest. ... Read more

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Liveliness of Thought and Feeling.
Lawrence wrote nearly 1,000 poems during a short lifetime in which he was also astonishingly prolific in other spheres--fiction, travel writing, essays, criticism, letters and plays.Lawrence was not simply a novelist who dabbled in other forms.His characteristic vision informed everything he wrote, especially his poetry.At three important phases of his life it became the primary channel of his experience and creative energy--the first year of his relationship with Frieda, the two years in Sicily, and the last year of his life.Bringing together the best of his poetry, this volume demonstrates that 'Lawrence is a great poet in every sense including the technical ... The form is the perfect incarnation of the content, the perfect vehicle for the liveliness of thought and feeling, the freshness, and depth of perception, the wit and wisdom he has to offer.'Superb.Without hesitation or reservation, five stars.

Not the highest poetry
The editor of this edition Keith Sagar has selected for it what he says are Lawrence's truly good poems which he reckons asone- hundred fifty of the roughly one- thousand Lawrence wrote. Sagar maintains that Lawrence's special quality as a poet is his emotional realism. And it seems to me undoubtedly true that Lawrence is powerful in his expression of his feeling. But then the question which might be asked is why the lines of Lawrence do not somehow sing in our memory , remain with us as for instance the lines of Keats, Hopkins, Yeats, Wallace Stevens do?
Why is it despite Sagar's objection that the consensus is probably right in seeing Lawrence as primarily a novelist, and only secondarily as a poet?

Here is a fine small poem of Lawrence from this book.

DESIRE IS DEAD
Desire may be dead
and still a man can be
a meeting place for sun and rain
wonder outwaiting pain
as in a wintry tree.

And one more small example.
WHATEVER MAN MAKES
Whatever man makes and makes it live
lives because of the life put into it
A yard of India muslim is alive with Hindu life
Anda Navajo woman, weaving her rug in the pattern of her dream
must run the pattern out in a little break at the end
so that her soul can come out, back to her.

But in the odd pattern, like snake- marks ont he sand it leaves its trail.

Am I wrong to think to think these poems are too prosaic to be the greatest poetry ?

A wonderful collection
Sagar states in the introduction of this selection of D.H. Lawrence's poetry, "We have come to think of his poetry as something of a by-product of, or relaxation from, other more strenuous and important work".There is no doubt it was to an extent, however, what is clear is that he took it just as seriously as his other artistic pursuits.Casual readers of Lawrence may be surprised to learn that he wrote around 1000 poems in his 45-years.His poetry runs in near-parallel themes to his novels - for example, "Sons and Lovers" character Miriam was inspired by the muse of "Love Poems", Lawrence's' then sweetheart Jessie Chambers."Sons and Lovers" focused upon the cruelty of love - platonic, romantic, and parental.Lawrence's poems from his "Love Poems" collection, "Cruelty and Love" and "Snap-Dragon" capture the same theme, albeit far more personally.

In this collection we see Lawrence's poetic skills evolve - from young rebel to world-weary mystic.It's his ability to capture emotion so clearly and concisely which is Lawrence's greatest skill.What also shines through in his poetry is a sense of playfulness - take "The Mosquito" as a case example:

"It is your trump,
It is your hateful little trump,
You pointed fiend,
Which shakes my sudden blood to hatred of you:
It is your small, high, hateful bugle in my ear."

The poem is altogether hilarious, depicting Lawrence as a hunter of the tiny yet vicious bug, who evades his every attempt to squash it until he finally, after much effort, succeeds.Much more than this, however, it demonstrates Lawrence's uncanny ability to capture the essence of nature and its creatures, best evidenced in "Snake".

Lawrence's poems are all full of energy and spirit, technically adept, and yet not limited by form. Admittedly some of his work is too personal, leaving the reader alienated, but his successful poetry (mostly presented in this collection) transcends time and culture. ... Read more

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David Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood, England, in 1885. In 1914, he married Frieda Von Richtofen, a German national and distant cousin of the German war ace, "The Red Baron" von Richthofen. While living on the Coast of Cornwall in 1917, they were harassed and accused of being spies for Germany.

By 1921, the Lawrences were living in Italy and D. H. had won international acclaim for his writings. Mabel Dodge Sterne invited the pair to her home in Taos, New Mexico. Traveling by way of Ceylon, Australia, Tahiti, and, finally, San Francisco, the Lawrences set foot in New Mexico for the first time in 1922. Although he traveled all over the world, Lawrence was never as happy anywhere as he was in Taos.

Arthur Bachrach has lived in Taos for over twenty years, and he has come to know people who freely recalled the Lawrences. They shared information about the circle of artists and friends who surrounded the Lawrences and their lifestyles. Bachrach provides information on Lawrence's writings and the influence living in the mountains of New Mexico had upon him.

D. H. Lawrence died of tuberculosis while visiting France in 1930, and five years later, his ashes were placed in a memorial on his beloved Kiowa Ranch near Taos. Given to the University of New Mexico in the 1950s by D. H.'s widow, the ranch is known today as the D. H. Lawrence Ranch.

Recollections of Lawrence's life and friends in 1920s Taos. ... Read more

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1077 page book. This collection includes all the poems from the incomplete Collected Poems of 1929and from the separate smaller volumes issued during his lifetime; uncollected poems; and appendix of juvenilia and another containing variants and early drafts; and all Lawrence;s critical introductions to his poems. There are full textual and explanatory notes, glossary and index ... Read more

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Bored with the daily grind and keen to escape the rat-race, Hazel and Simon Jackson did what so many dream of - they sold their house and possessions, bought a motor home, took their thirteen year old son out of school and travelled Europe.They left winter behind and for the next year they barbecued on beaches, skied on mountains, swam in warm seas and danced at fiestas.

Encountering everything from Spanish hospitals, and the Guardia Civil when they were robbed in Spain - to being ripped off in Rome, propositioned in Sicily, dazzled in Dubrovnik, and almost drowned in Slovenia... they wild-camped their way through southern Europe, in a motor home affectionately known as The Beast.

They slept, ate and lived in a different place almost every day, meeting locals off the beaten track, making new, lasting friendships... and shared it all with their teenage son Jack.

If you enjoy travel and need to be re-assured that you aren't the only ones who break-down, get lost, or stuck in impossible situations, then this is the book for you.Join them as they travel for a year through Europe, from the luxury of your arm-chair.

Brimming with useful tips and historical information, this is a book full of humour, catastrophes and everything else that comes with life on the road.

It is a dream come true.

Please visit their website at www.geocities.com/h.hdj@btinternet.com ... Read more

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The inside story
This book gives you the real inside story of what its like to up sticks, with your children, and take a gap year travelling through europe together.Alongside useful information about cities and local areas you also have the ups and downs, that are sometimes very funny, the good and the bad times, and the people you could meet, which all comes with daily travel.A list of campsites is also included.Don't expect this book to tell you 'how' to take a gap year with your family - just read what happens to this family when they do!Further independent reviews can be seen at Amazon.co.uk

I liked it
This book is a good example of a travel dairy, while obviously not intended as a "how to" book there are nevertheless many hints and tips offered to the observant reader wishing to undertake a similar journey. But don't buy it if you expect step by strep instructions on motorhoming in Europe - if you need that much instruction perhaps you should stay at home.

Having undertaken a similar journey myself I enjoyed the opportunity to remember and reminisce which the descriptive style of this book offers. Scattered with personal opinions and observations which lift it beyond a mere "travel brochure" I found it an enjoyable and easy read - recommended.

Just a small last point, it's a pity that the photos on the author's web site are too small to appreciate.

europe in a motorhome: amid life gap year around southern europe
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H.D.: The Long Journey to Freedom
The poet H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] was born in Bethlehem, PA to an academic family.Her father, Charles Doolittle, was a Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy."Everything revolved around him," Hilda wrote many years later.He was stern, patriarch, and hard to impress.

At Bryn Mawr College, she met Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams.Under Pound's tutelage, she began writing poetry.He gave her the moniker "H.D.," and they became engaged.On an August day in a museum tearoom, Pound both gave her a pen name and determined that she should be a published poet. When she left school two years later under something of a cloud, it was Ezra Pound who introduced her to his literary circle, the Imagists, in London.There she met her future husband, Richard Aldinton, after the Pound relationship wore off. Naturally, she wrote Imagist poetry and submitted much of her work to the harsh review of her mentor, the patriarchal Mr. Pound.She later had a remarkable friendship with D. H. Lawrence and then Cecil Gray, the future father of her daughter.Before the First World War, she emerged as a young woman firmly under the wing of various men. They ultimately had the effect of both promoting and marginalizing her talents.

The war to end wars changed a great deal.In many ways, the pre-war Imagists were poets who reflected in words the aesthetic values of Impressionist painters. They created objectified poetry, based on images of life, both inanimate and human.After the war, the same group of poets [Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens] gradually came to be known as Modernists as they absorbed the harsh realities of the War.

In so far as H.D. was an Imagist, she pursued clarity through precise visual images. As she emerged a Modernist, she discovered the need to write about what Rafael Campos has called "human relationships contextualized in their starkly new and sometimes alienating surroundings."

Here, H.D. found her voice in the experiences of classical females, like Helen. In Homer's version of the Trojan Wars only the male version of the story is told. In H.D.'s Helen in Egypt, the silent heroine speaks for herself.In Helen, it is H.D. who finds a feminist voice with which to speak to the world.

As she gained an independent voice, she started to find other women who were fighting a similar fight. H. D.'s personal relationships with women varied a great deal.She was an early friend of Marianne Moore, who encouraged her.After so many disastrous relationships with men, she took up an openly lesbian relationship with the poet, novelist, and critic Annie Winifred Ellerman, who published under the name Bryher.Together they traveled around Europe through the twenties, writing poetry and generally acting out the lives of wild women of the flapper era.

In 1933-34, H.D. moved to Vienna and studied under Sigmund Freud. She became one of the few cases where he psychoanalyzed one of his students, after which her poetry became even more openly feminist in tone. As she worked with Freud, she kept notes which were later published as Advent.Ten years later, she published a slightly fictionalized version of her psychoanalysis by Freud entitled Writing on the Wall. Today, the two manuscripts have been re-issued by New Directions under the title Tribute to Freud and a fascinating read it is.Dedicating your life to the service of others isn't always the best way to serve the development of your own special talents.

H.D. wrote long before the idea of genuine human equality between the sexes could be openly contemplated.So, her poetry was largely ignored. H.D. spent most of her life trying to free herself.

How to Describe...?
How to describe this book? Doolittle's dexterity with our language, her soft langurous voice, the layers upon layers of depth underlying each of the stanzas? It is impossible. Having read the Greek lyrics and tragedians, and that other beacon, Shakespeare, I am still at a loss to do justice to Doolittle's "Helen in Egypt." I can only tell you one thing: read it. But if you do, do it slowly, with care and attention to each of the lines, with long pauses to allow them to sink in, and let yourself be seduced by Helen, Helena, the phantom that, real or not, launched a thousand ships, and languishes between a triumvirate of men, gods, and heroes: Zeus and Amen, Achilles and Paris and Theseus, Castor and Pollux and Clytemnestra... ... Read more

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Dissapointed for what I thought I was getting
When I first looked at this book at the bookstore I thought, Great,,my son has ADHD and was looking for a change in his diet to help.However the book just barely skims any one topic with a paragraph or two if you're lucky on anyone subject and has no depth to it at all.If you're just looking for the tip of the iceburg this is it.There is nothing more than an overview to any subject when it comes to amounts, dosages for supplements or nutrients and the amount needed.About half way through I quit reading it since it was of no help other than a broad spectrum overview.The Myth of Learning Disabilities..etc..by Robin Pauc I think, was much better at first glance and actually had dosages for supplements to know where to start and why this or that would help brain function etc.Hope this helps.

Good resource
**** I went through this book marking sections to go back over and re-read. Much of the book is geared toward explaining what A.D.D. and A.D.H.D. is, the symptoms, and possible contributing factors. I could not help but wonder WHY? Anyone looking up information on A.D.D. and/or A.D.H.D. already knows what it is. Chances are they have talked, in depth, to their doctor(s) already.

A.D.D. stands for Attention Deficit Disorder. The "H" stands for someone with A.D.D. and has hyperactivity with it. If you are looking for something with A.D.L.D. ("L" stands for a problem with "Learning" instead of a problem with "Hyperactivity".) Then this book is NOT for you. Nothing in this book even remotely touches A.D.L.D.

This book is put together to give an idea of how to treat the symptoms of A.D.D. and A.D.H.D. naturally. That does not mean you will successfully treat the disorder by what is in this book. But what parent would not want to read everything they can find on the subject and gain an idea of what else they could possibly do? This book will have you parents saying "Yeah! That is exactly what my child is like! I know exactly what you mean!" I may be a "reviewer" but I only agreed to review this book because my own son is A.D.H.D. Whether you give medication or not, this book is for you! The concerned parent! The one who does not want to miss a chance of helping your child have a better life, now and in the future!

This book has been a best seller for a long time. It is revised often, as all good medical non-fictions are. After all, scientists and doctors are learning new things every single day. The public needs to be educated. Here is your chance to BE educated. Do not let it pass!

The chapters include:

If You Want Something Different, You've Got to Do Something Different.
Going Through The Open Door
"But Why Do I Have ADD?"
The First Step Toward Changing Your Diet
What Should You Eat?
Tasty Recipes
The Importance of Detoxifying
Supplements That We Need
Nutrients That Help A.D.D. & A.D.H.D.
Non-Dietary Approaches to A.D.D. / A.D.H.D.
Resource Directory, Bibliography, Index. ****

Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.

Good resource
(...)I went through this book marking sections to go back over and re-read. Much of the book is geared toward explaining what A.D.D. and A.D.H.D. is, the symptoms, and possible contributing factors. I could not help but wonder WHY? Anyone looking up information on A.D.D. and/or A.D.H.D. already knows what it is. Chances are they have talked, in depth, to their doctor(s) already.

A.D.D. stands for Attention Deficit Disorder. The "H" stands for someone with A.D.D. and has hyperactivity with it. If you are looking for something with A.D.L.D. ("L" stands for a problem with "Learning" instead of a problem with "Hyperactivity".) Then this book is NOT for you. Nothing in this book even remotely touches A.D.L.D.

This book is put together to give an idea of how to treat the symptoms of A.D.D. and A.D.H.D. naturally. That does not mean you will successfully treat the disorder by what is in this book. But what parent would not want to read everything they can find on the subject and gain an idea of what else they could possibly do? This book will have you parents saying "Yeah! That is exactly what my child is like! I know exactly what you mean!" I may be a "reviewer" but I only agreed to review this book because my own son is A.D.H.D. Whether you give medication or not, this book is for you! The concerned parent! The one who does not want to miss a chance of helping your child have a better life, now and in the future!

This book has been a best seller for a long time. It is revised often, as all good medical non-fictions are. After all, scientists and doctors are learning new things every single day. The public needs to be educated. Here is your chance to BE educated. Do not let it pass!

The chapters include:

If You Want Something Different, You've Got to Do Something Different.
Going Through The Open Door
"But Why Do I Have ADD?"
The First Step Toward Changing Your Diet
What Should You Eat?
Tasty Recipes
The Importance of Detoxifying
Supplements That We Need
Nutrients That Help A.D.D. & A.D.H.D.
Non-Dietary Approaches to A.D.D. / A.D.H.D.
Resource Directory, Bibliography, Index. (...)

The ADD and ADHD diet by Bell and Peiper
Many Doctors seem to have limited knowledge in the area of nutrition.This book gives one insight into possible alternatives to traditional medicines.Having family members with multiple allergies, I feel this book shows you other poosiblities.This was a great introduction to ADD and diet options.

Great book!
This book makes total sense. Why not try the nutritional approach to ADD it can't hurt. The book brings up some great points. One being that people with ADD/ADHD are more prone to food allergies. Allergies to everyday foods can contribute to negative behaviors assocaited with ADD. ... Read more

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