{"product_id":"the-five-quintets-9781481307093","title":"The Five Quintets","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Five Quintets\u003c\/i\u003e is both poetry and cultural history. It offers a sustained reflection on modernity--people and movements--in poetic meter. Just as Dante, in his \u003ci\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e, summed up the Middle Ages on the cusp of modernity, \u003ci\u003eThe Five Quintets \u003c\/i\u003etakes stock of a late modern world on the cusp of the first-ever global century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCelebrated Irish poet Micheal O'Siadhail structures his \u003ci\u003eQuintets\u003c\/i\u003e to echo the \u003ci\u003eComedy\u003c\/i\u003e. Where Dante had a tripartite structure ( \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePurgatorio\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eParadiso\u003c\/i\u003e), O'Siadhail has a five-part structure, with each quintet devoted to a discipline--the arts; economics; politics; science; and philosophy and theology. Each quintet is also marked by a different form: sonnets interspersed by haikus (\"saikus\"), iambic pentameter, terza rima, and two other invented forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Five Quintets \u003c\/i\u003ecaptivates even as it instructs, exploring the ever-changing flow of ideas and the individuals whose contributions elicited change and reflected their times. The artists, economists, politicians, scientists, and philosophers O'Siadhail features lived complex lives, often full of contradictions. Others, though deeply rooted in their context, transcended their time and place and pointed beyond themselves--even to us and to a time after modernity's reign.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ancient Horace commended literature that delivered \"profit with delight.\" In \u003ci\u003eThe Five Quintets\u003c\/i\u003e, Micheal O'Siadhail has done just that: he delights us in the present with his artistry, even as he reveals hidden treasures of our past and compels us toward the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Micheal O'Siadhail\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Baylor University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 381\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.1lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.30w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781481307093","brand":"Baylor University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42713453887625,"sku":"9781481307093","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_7fa6d314-08f4-4032-86b3-26cc8d562c4f.jpg?v=1719612117","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-five-quintets-9781481307093","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}