Personified: Volume 1

A collection of classic rhyming poetry built around the concept of personification; giving life & form, voice & breath to virtues & philosophical concepts.

Individual pieces include: flourishing Superstition, Idolatry & Hypocrisy; Outlaw Time & beautiful Nature; the collision of Time & Truth; Justice’s eager ears; Lust & Greed exposed, as so naïve; Ignorance tobogganing; Alcohol is no lady — & certainly not your friend; the discourse between Knowledge & Wisdom; the relationship between Death & Beauty & more.

Includes 27 pieces, accompanied by allegorical art work from Arnold Böcklin, Donatello, Titian, Albrecht Duerer, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Kano Motonobu, Frederick Stuart Church, Maritius Lowe, Theodoor van Thulden, Balthasar Permoser & the Supreme Court of Canada.

Includes quotes from:

Martin Luther
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Updike
Mos Def
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tennessee Williams
William Carlos Williams
D.H. Lawrence
Lee Xiaolong
the Book of Isaiah
Jim Stands
the Book of Isaiah
John Webster
Jeremy Taylor
Pliny
Laurell K. Hamilton
Jack Kerouac
Marquis de Sade
Nicholas Rowe
Miguel de Cervantes
Rumi
John Updike
Claudian
Georges Bernanos
Tryon Edwards
Billy Graham
e.e. cummings
Mark Twain
Michel de Montaigne
Jimi Hendricks
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Thucydides
Henry Ford
Kurt Vonnegut
Louis Pasteur
DeWitt Clinton
Calvin Coolidge
Augustus Hare
Derek Bok
Margaret Fuller
Jay-Z
Friedrich Nietzsche
Leonardo da Vinci
Marcus Garvey
Plato
Ralph W. Sockman
Stephen Hawking
Kofi Annan
Avery Brooks
James Madison
John Milton
Jim Morrison
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Horace
Homer
Wallace Stevens
Walt Whitman
J.R.R. Tolkien
Edgar Allen Poe
Henry David Thoreau
Virginia Woolf
Laughing Bull
Plato
Zhuang Zi
Thomas Moore