{ "item_title" : "A Passion for French Poetry", "item_author" : [" Prys Owen Ma Phd "], "item_description" : "All my life I have had great pleasure from reading aloud (or reciting from memory) the glorious lyric poetry of France. I hope that my pupils and friends have enjoyed them with me. Suddenly, seventy years later, I have found a new French lyric poet. He is new to me but much older than the poets of the nineteenth century, and also than the Renaissance poets Ronsard and Du Bellay whom I discovered when I was at Southampton University. This poet was born in 1394 and I feel an empathy with him which refreshes me. My favourite poem is one of the saddest that I've read. We in Wales have a word for exile or loss which is deeply moving for us. It is hiraeth.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/53/530/702/1535307021_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "9.97", "online_price" : "9.97", "our_price" : "9.97", "club_price" : "9.97", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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