Olive, Cypress and Palm an Anthology of Love and Death

""Olive, Cypress and Palm: An Anthology of Love and Death"" is a collection of poems and prose by Mina Curtiss. The book explores the themes of love and death through the lens of nature, drawing inspiration from the olive, cypress, and palm trees. The author weaves together vivid imagery and powerful language to create a poignant and moving reading experience. The poems and prose pieces are arranged thematically, with sections dedicated to love, death, and the intersection of the two. The book also includes illustrations by the author, adding to the beauty and depth of the work. Overall, ""Olive, Cypress and Palm"" is a thoughtful and evocative exploration of the human experience of love and loss, and the role that nature can play in helping us to understand and process these emotions.1930. Curtiss writes: An anthology should be its own justification-a garland of flowers; of olive, cypress and palm. This anthology excludes poems of any writer born after 1850. A date is, of course, merely a symbol, and I might more accurately have chosen 1869. Be that as it may, a definite change in attitude towards death, and consequently in elegiac poetry, took place after the publication of The Origin of Species. An analysis of this statement is not here relevant. One can only say, judging entirely from the poetry of the last sixty or seventy years, that death has ceased to be felt and thought of as concomitant with life, as a part of the continuous pattern of human experience, as a culmination. Instead it has become a biological phenomenon, as long as possible postponed, and frequently ignored or feared. Selections include the verse of Donne, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Shelley, Dryden, Jonson, Dickinson, Milton, Tennyson, Byron, Hardy, Rossetti, and Arnold.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.