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Parrish & Poetry: A Gift of Words And Art by John James Ingalls, Andrew Marvell, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Francis William Bourdillon, A.E. Housman, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Hood, Robert Burns, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alexander Pope, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Keats, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Eugene Field, William Blake, Christina Rossetti, William Wordsworth, Joyce Kilmer, Walter Raleigh, John Donne, Emily Brontë, Maxfield Parrish, George Pope Morris, Ben Johnson, Lydia Austin Parrish, William Shakespeare, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Laurence S. Cutler, William Ernest Henley, Christopher Marlowe, Judy Goffman Cutler, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Emily Dickinson, Rudyard Kipling, William Collins, Edwin Markham, Alfred Tennyson, Lord Byron

pshipper's review against another edition

4.0

Long a fan of the soapy movie and a Hartford, Connecticut, area resident, I finally read the novel. Savage’s writing is actually quite nice, with memorable turns of phrase. It’s very much of its time and her attempts at Jamaican-inflected speech are cringe-worthy, but the stereotypes of both race and social standing are expected in this period and I have to say that, though well-traveled territory of love and money and land and greed, it’s still an enjoyable read. And far less trite than the movie. But do see the movie. I mean, Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Karl Malden, Claudette Colbert, and technicolor. What’s not to love?