Bittersweet Within My Heart
The Collected Poems of Mary, Queen of Scots
Edited by Robin Bell
£10.99
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About the Book
In this volume, the first complete collection of the tragic Scottish queen’s poetry, we see the passion, devotion and elegance of Mary’s verse, much of which was composed at crisis points during her life.
The Poems of Mary, Queen of Scots are about love, the love of men and the love of God. They reveal a woman who was both deeply serious and intensely passionate, who used poetry as a means of working out the constant moral dilemmas that confronted her as a female head of state in a violent and unstable Europe.
At times of crisis, Mary turned to poetry as her only release. Her poems candidly confront her extremes of emotion, suddenly changing from tranquil religious meditation to uncontrolled passion and jealousy.
The Author
Robin Bell
Robin Bell grew up near Auchterarder and spent many years as a writer and broadcaster in New York and London. He won the Sony Radio Academy Award for best British Documentary with Strathinver: A Portrait Album 1945-1953 and the Creative Scotland Award for How to Tell Lies, his fables on political processes of the G8.
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