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Fumes of Formation

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Amanda McKittrick Ros’s poems and prose are unique, and her determination to write saw her publish two novels and two volumes of verse in her lifetime. Whether you like it or loathe it, her style is inimitable. In her own words: ‘This inventive production was hatched within a mind fringed with Fumes of Formation, the Ingenious Innings of Inspiration and Thorny Tincture of Thought.’ … (Summary by Newgatenovelist)


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Chapters

01 - All ye who read this little book of poems

0:57

02 - Vir Et De

2:04

03 - Myself

2:01

04 - Extempore

1:07

05 - On E. of G.

1:12

06 - On a Premature Effort of Earldom

0:45

07 - Thoughts

2:54

08 - The Old Home

3:27

09 - Clouds v. Sunshine

0:30

10 - Love

0:29

11 - Days of Decency - Dead!

1:52

12 - My Favourite Tree at the Old Home

1:12

13 - A Fragment of Folly

0:41

14 - A Soldier's Missive

1:58

15 - Extempore

0:59

16 - Be Warned

0:26

17 - Hark Ye

0:43

18 - On the death of Mrs. Agnes Gordon Browne, wife of Doctor George Browne, Ba…

0:56

19 - Barbara Bligh Black

2:16

20 - Bonnie Biddy

1:00

21 - An Epitaph

0:48

22 - On the Deaths of the Author's Two Younger Brothers

2:09

23 - The End of "Pain"

1:39

24 - The Bard of Dunclug

1:58

25 - On visiting Westminster Abbey a "reduced dignity" invited me to muse on it…

2:11

26 - Old Ireland

0:51

27 - The Weir

0:47

28 - The Moon

0:31

29 - To My Dear Sisters

0:39

30 - To a Fop

0:33

31 - An Epitaph

0:55

32 - On being asked by a dispenser of spiritual foppery, whom I lately met at t…

0:49

33 - Passion's Curse

2:08

34 - Death's Silent Symbol

3:00

35 - Love's Current

1:07

36 - Soul-Stained--Solomon

0:40

37 - My Favourite Flower

2:37

38 - The Golden Gods

2:12

39 - To a 'Grandee' asking my opinion on his efforts as a Poet

0:47

40 - Advice to Lady Lucy

0:40

41 - The Author

0:46

42 - A Tame Hare

1:20

43 - Little Jacob Jay

1:12

44 - The Stars' Mother

1:09

45 - My Betrothed

1:13

46 - Eastertide

1:42

47 - Opinion Rules the Wooed

1:19

48 - Adam and Eve

1:14

49 - The Snake

0:39

50 - To a Friend

0:41

51 - Epitaph suitable for a Critic's Tomb

0:49

52 - Seaforde the Silent

0:44

53 - The End

1:30

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