The Poet, The Lover, The Assassin and The Survivor (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

The Poet, the Lover, the Assassin and the Survivor‘the being that we are’A poet sits at his window overlooking Rydal Water. It is January 1850 and the coming spring will be his last. On his lap lies his journal, words he wrote when he was twenty one and in Revolutionary France in 1791. These old pages tell of his experiences in those turbulent days that led to the Reign of Terror not far ahead until his desperate departure early in 1793; will awaken memories of friends and acquaintances who were in the thick of it: artists, poets, politicians, feminists some of whom were to perish on the guillotine; and remind him of treachery and error of ambition as well as its hopeful endeavour, of corrupted ideals as a new order was born out of conflict; of the desolating destruction of women’s hopes for emancipation and equality, and of times of passionate love. And yet he survived what could well have destroyed him, and considers why. He himself will create revolutionary change and his journal reveals its origin and the being that he is.