This collection brings together a diverse array of literary fairies: here are Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Shakespeare‘s Titania, and Keats’s “La Belle Dame Sans Merci,” but also Arthur Rimbaud’s “Fairy,” Goethe's "Erlking," Claude McKay’s “Snow Fairy,” Denise Levertov’s “Elves,” Sylvia Plath’s “Lorelei," Christopher Okigbo's "Watermaid," and Neil Gaiman's "The Fairy Reel.”Įveryman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. They have seen repeated surges of renewed popularity from the Renaissance to the present fantasy-besotted moment.Įlves, changelings, mermaids, pixies, and sprites, England’s Queen Mab, France’s Morgana, Scandinavian nixies, and Irish banshees: these magical creatures are sometimes mischievous, sometimes dangerous, but always enchanting.
At 19, Greenberg narrowly survived a devastating car crash. Her memoir The Body Broken was published by Random House in 2011. Buy a used copy of The Body Broken : A Memoir book by Lynne Greenberg. With ancient roots in pagan belief, fairies have long populated mythology, folklore, and oral and written poetry. LYNNE GREENBERG is Associate Professor of Seventeenth-Century Literature at Hunter College, CUNY in New York. A wide-ranging and appealingly fairy-sized treasury of fantastical poems from across the centuries and around the world, in a gorgeously jacketed small hardcoverįascination with fairies spans centuries and cultures. The Body Broken: A Memoir is written by Lynne Greenberg and published by Random House.
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