(Ilustrations below are decorative additions to this page and do not appear in the book.)


In January 2000, the University of Massachusetts Press  published (click on Press name for information):

The Celestial Twins:
Poetry and Music through the Ages.

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Left: Dominican teaching a prince. Christ surrounded by angels playing music. John of Berry's Petites Heures.  France, Paris 14th Century. (90 x 70 mm) Bibliothèque Nationale de France. (Click illustration for source)


 

Right: 14th c.
hymnal.
 

Right: King David making music. Breviary of Martin of Aragon, Spain, Catalonia 15th Century.          (80 x 70mm) Bibliothèque Nationale de France. (Click on illustration for source.)


      Among poets covered in The Celestial Twins are Horace, Dante, Deschamps, Chaucer, Wyatt, Herbert, Milton, Blake, Baudelaire,Valéry, Eliot and many others.Click on the photographs below for more information on these poets, who are also included:

   Robert Burns      Emily Dickinson      Walt Whitman   Thomas Hardy    Langston Hughes